http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson Comment Feed for Loraine Lawson Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:32:57 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2010-03-19T19:32:57Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/defining-master-data-for-your-organization/?cs=40158#comment-36816 Oh, and you can still buy my book at 49% off at Amazon. use this link:   http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0123742250?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwknowledgei-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0123742250 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:32:57 GMT David Loshin http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/defining-master-data-for-your-organization/?cs=40158#comment-36816 2010-03-19T19:32:57Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/defining-master-data-for-your-organization/?cs=40158#comment-36815 Even my own bloated definition is insufficient, and the complexity of the answer should indicate that its immediate usefulness is limited. Unfortunately, we get asked the same question (rather the demand: "Explain to me how you tell whether something is Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:29:55 GMT David Loshin http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/defining-master-data-for-your-organization/?cs=40158#comment-36815 2010-03-19T19:29:55Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/the-business-pros-and-cons-of-nosql/?cs=40089#comment-36787 There is a time and place for everything.   For online transation processing (OLTP) aka data entry, relational databases are a great solution because of its ability to enforce data integrity and handle locking.  Retrieving data from huge Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:19:44 GMT Mike Kavis http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/the-business-pros-and-cons-of-nosql/?cs=40089#comment-36787 2010-03-17T14:19:44Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/smarter-integration-in-seven-steps/?cs=39929#comment-36786 Smart, proactive idea - assembling and maintaining an Integration Competency Center (ICC) - especially since inorganic growth events are a part of business (and data) as usual.   Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:10:05 GMT AlDean-aclr8-at-twitter http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/smarter-integration-in-seven-steps/?cs=39929#comment-36786 2010-03-17T14:10:05Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/the-business-pros-and-cons-of-nosql/?cs=40089#comment-36775 This is not to say I'm not a fan of NoSQL, the various "other than SQL" storage models and patterns that are emerging.  There are many use cases and scales where one of them will fit very well.   Just don't commit a live site to a NoSQL Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:23:53 GMT Mark Atwood http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/the-business-pros-and-cons-of-nosql/?cs=40089#comment-36775 2010-03-16T21:23:53Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/the-business-pros-and-cons-of-nosql/?cs=40089#comment-36774 I think the catalyst for nosql trend was a desire for scalability: so certainly solving scale and big data problems is very key to the space.   That said, the solutions are not relational data model, so once they moved beyond that, there are new Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:47:12 GMT dm http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/the-business-pros-and-cons-of-nosql/?cs=40089#comment-36774 2010-03-16T18:47:12Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/why-you-win-when-everyone-asks-salesforce-to-the-prom/?cs=39832#comment-36555 Is Salesforce old enough to drink champagne? Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:14:40 GMT SusanHall http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/why-you-win-when-everyone-asks-salesforce-to-the-prom/?cs=39832#comment-36555 2010-03-05T20:14:40Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/mdm-as-a-vendor-fight-to-own-enterprise-data/?cs=39786#comment-36527 Holy crap is right!   The anonymous EDS consultant has a point when he says that life would be a lot easier if we had stuck to our guns and continued to maintain our original data models. But Garnie's right when he says, "I have yet to meet a Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:23:29 GMT Jill Dyche http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/mdm-as-a-vendor-fight-to-own-enterprise-data/?cs=39786#comment-36527 2010-03-04T20:23:29Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/mdm-as-a-vendor-fight-to-own-enterprise-data/?cs=39786#comment-36523 Hey Loraine -   Great article and great comments from folks too.   I'll not pick apart the TDWI article, even though there were some things that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up (DQ is really an element of ETL! ugh... don't get me Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:01:29 GMT Marty Moseley http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/mdm-as-a-vendor-fight-to-own-enterprise-data/?cs=39786#comment-36523 2010-03-04T20:01:29Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/mdm-as-a-vendor-fight-to-own-enterprise-data/?cs=39786#comment-36517 Ray, agreed...  well said... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:44:16 GMT Garnie Bolling http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/mdm-as-a-vendor-fight-to-own-enterprise-data/?cs=39786#comment-36517 2010-03-04T16:44:16Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/mdm-as-a-vendor-fight-to-own-enterprise-data/?cs=39786#comment-36516 At least, use open source for your MDM projects.  This decreases significantly the vendor lock-in issue. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:28:32 GMT Yves de Montcheuil http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/mdm-as-a-vendor-fight-to-own-enterprise-data/?cs=39786#comment-36516 2010-03-04T16:28:32Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/mdm-as-a-vendor-fight-to-own-enterprise-data/?cs=39786#comment-36514 Great post Loraine,   We are at a crossroads.... We can continue with bespoke approaches to Data Management, or strive for a vision of a standards based approach.   In every facet of life, standards provide the "plumbing" that enable Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:42:42 GMT Ken O'Connor http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/mdm-as-a-vendor-fight-to-own-enterprise-data/?cs=39786#comment-36514 2010-03-04T15:42:42Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/mdm-as-a-vendor-fight-to-own-enterprise-data/?cs=39786#comment-36502 Jill makes a good point about lock-in with MDM ala ERP.  This would really only happen if the MDM products were successful at addressing all types of data.  Even then, one could argue, other MDM products could consume existing ones as new data Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:02:53 GMT R "Ray" Wang http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/mdm-as-a-vendor-fight-to-own-enterprise-data/?cs=39786#comment-36502 2010-03-04T04:02:53Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/mdm-as-a-vendor-fight-to-own-enterprise-data/?cs=39786#comment-36498 Great post Loraine, wow, and holy crap is right...   But I disagree with the last part, where the EDS consultant in BI said ... if they only followed the data/information models...    Of course if everyone followed the same industry Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:34:44 GMT Garnie Bolling http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/mdm-as-a-vendor-fight-to-own-enterprise-data/?cs=39786#comment-36498 2010-03-03T23:34:44Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/the-soa-paradox-rejecting-the-architecture-embracing-the-concepts/?cs=39557#comment-36474 Hi Loraine,   I'm going to agree with your supposition, and wonder if this is actually news too, because the most successful structures in business are already services offered by one part of the business to another, delivering direct value for Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:09:49 GMT Nick Malik http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/the-soa-paradox-rejecting-the-architecture-embracing-the-concepts/?cs=39557#comment-36474 2010-03-03T00:09:49Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/could-windows-phone-7-help-bust-mobile-silos/?cs=39588#comment-36465 Whilst the Gizmodo article makes a good point about the benefits of being data- (or more accurately "information-") centric rather than application-centric, the author is ill-informed as to the level of information-centricity in Android (and I would Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:34:14 GMT Richard http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/could-windows-phone-7-help-bust-mobile-silos/?cs=39588#comment-36465 2010-03-02T17:34:14Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/the-soa-paradox-rejecting-the-architecture-embracing-the-concepts/?cs=39557#comment-36463 Just to let you know - this post has been included in a link roundup on the SATURN Network Blog at http://saturnnetwork.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/link-roundup-march-1-2010/ . Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:23:32 GMT Mary Van Tyne http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/the-soa-paradox-rejecting-the-architecture-embracing-the-concepts/?cs=39557#comment-36463 2010-03-02T14:23:32Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/three-ways-to-connect-data-integration-to-business-strategy/?cs=39525#comment-36409 It seems that more and more enterprises nowadays are relying on real-time operational data found in systems. Data is simply data, and its everywhere, but on its own it is no more than just information waiting to be used. Much has been written about the Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:37:13 GMT Ekta http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/three-ways-to-connect-data-integration-to-business-strategy/?cs=39525#comment-36409 2010-02-26T17:37:13Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/the-soa-paradox-rejecting-the-architecture-embracing-the-concepts/?cs=39557#comment-36400 I totally agree with Steve. But I also think, "size does matter". Small organisations often think they can or should only affort "small" thinking IT people who love "technical" talk and low-hanging fruits as the only (IT) things management recognises. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:41:14 GMT LuongLe-Huy http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/the-soa-paradox-rejecting-the-architecture-embracing-the-concepts/?cs=39557#comment-36400 2010-02-26T00:41:14Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/three-ways-to-connect-data-integration-to-business-strategy/?cs=39525#comment-36397 To those who've seen my previous posts, this'll not be surprising: The top-down perspective provided by the enterprise architecture dictates that data integration must be done.   Slam/dunk.   No special rationalizing needed.   Frank Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:08:05 GMT FrankMillar http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/three-ways-to-connect-data-integration-to-business-strategy/?cs=39525#comment-36397 2010-02-25T23:08:05Z