"Master Data Management" Articles & Interviews

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1. The Flawed Vision of Customer Data Integration – How to Get It Right the First Time

   [ Guest Opinion ] Topic: Data Integration | Author: RaviShankar | Date Published: 09/23/2009

   The early pioneers of Customer Data Integration (CDI) had a primary goal – to create the most reliable customer data for the company by bringing together and resolving inconsistent, and oftentimes incomplete, customer data, which was at the time siloed in disparate applications across the...

2. Could Where You Place MDM Tools Affect Data Quality?

   [ Interview ] Topic: Master Data Management | Author: LoraineLawson | Date Published: 07/28/2009

   Loraine Lawson spoke with Marty Moseley, the CTO of master data management vendor Initiate Systems , who says companies are making a mistake by always coupling MDM tools with the data warehouse. He explains why moving MDM “upstream” can improve data quality. Lawson : I was really...

3. What's Next for Master Data Management?

   [ Article ] Topic: Master Data Management | Author: LoraineLawson | Date Published: 08/17/2007

   Master data management comes in two flavors: customer data integration (CDI) and product information management (PIM). But soon, you can expect to see these two products migrating toward each other, according to Karen Leightell, senior product manager for IBM Master Data Management Solution Group...

4. Microsoft Buys Its Way into MDM

   [ Guest Opinion ] Topic: Master Data Management | Author: VentanaResearch | Date Published: 08/31/2007

   By David Stodder Take On June 7th, Microsoft acquired Stratature, a privately held developer of software for master data management (MDM). For now, Microsoft will make Stratature a wholly owned subsidiary, although ultimately it plans to bring the technology into the Office Server...

5. High-Quality Master Data Is Vital to Business Success

   [ Guest Opinion ] Topic: Master Data Management | Author: VentanaResearch | Date Published: 09/24/2007

   By Richard Snow Summary Master data management (MDM) has become one of the hottest topics in information management, as companies struggle to come to terms with collections of systems that have left them with master data dispersed in various silos and in multiple versions of the same...

6. Why MDM Transcends the Data Warehouse – and Its Staff

   [ Interview ] Topic: Master Data Management | Author: LoraineLawson | Date Published: 08/17/2009

   Loraine Lawson spoke with Evan Levy, a partner at Baseline Consulting and an instructor at The Data Warehousing Institute , about why data warehouses aren't the place to start multipurpose integration projects, aka master data management, and why application developers tend to...

7. Where Data Warehouses End and Master Data Management Begins

   [ Interview ] Topic: Master Data Management | Author: LoraineLawson | Date Published: 08/25/2009

   Last week, Evan Levy, a partner at Baseline Consulting and an instructor at The Data Warehousing Institute , told our Loraine Lawson why master data management transcends the data warehouse and its staff . This week, Levy explains the architecture of data integration and more about master...

8. Organizations Struggle to Manage Customer Data as Information Assets

   [ Guest Opinion ] Topic: CRM Solutions | Author: VentanaResearch | Date Published: 08/08/2007

   By Richard Snow Summary New research from Ventana Research finds that organizations are struggling to come to terms with information system architectures that over the years have come to consist of multiple disconnected and unsynchronized systems that each contains some customer data. As a...

9. The Challenge of Managing Customer Data

   [ Guest Opinion ] Topic: CRM Solutions | Author: VentanaResearch | Date Published: 08/22/2007

   By Richard Snow Summary New research from Ventana Research finds that companies seeking to create and maintain a single source of customer data are taking various approaches but often find barriers in their way. The first and foremost is the sheer number of systems that contain customer...

10. On the Road to Data Management

    [ Interview ] Topic: Master Data Management | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 11/06/2006

    Arthur Cole spoke with Aaron Zornes, chief research officer, The CDI Institute . Cole : Master data management can be a daunting task for organizations strapped with independent data silos and incompatible hardware and software environments. What is the best way to break down the approach...

11. What Role IT Should and Should Not Play in Master Data Management

    [ Interview ] Topic: Master Data Management | Author: LoraineLawson | Date Published: 06/12/2008

    Loraine Lawson spoke with Andy Hayler, CEO of The Information Difference , a research firm dedicated to reporting on the master data management market. The firm will soon release its first study, which surveyed 115 companies about MDM adoption. Previously, Hayler explained the relationship...

12. MDM: Silo Breaker or Silo Builder?

    [ Interview ] Topic: Master Data Management | Author: LoraineLawson | Date Published: 12/08/2008

    Loraine Lawson spoke with Ravi Shankar, senior director of product marketing at Siperian , about how ill-planned MDM deployments can add to the silo problem instead of resolving it. Lawson : Could you tell me a little bit about Siperian's MDM solution and how it is classified? I was...