"Master Data Management" Blogs
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MDM Is Inevitable
As 2006 came to a close, an article in DM Review focused on whether master data management (MDM) is a contender for big-time enterprise-wide status, like ERP and CRM. (IDC projects a $10 billion market for MDM by the close of the decade.) Based on years of experience dealing with very large...
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DataFlux Launches New MDM Product
DataFlux has made something of a name for itself in Master Data Management as offering a solution that lets you build as you go. Recently, I read Forrester's and Gartner's most recent reports on MDM, thanks to MDM vendor Siperian, which is offering them for free download on its site . Both...
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Five Confusing Questions About MDM
One of the more maddening things about new technology topics is how difficult it can be to pin down the basic facts, like how it is defined and what's the best approach. It's a bit like playing Scrabble without establishing a dictionary of record. Nobody knows for sure, but everybody has an...
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How to Fund MDM and Other Questions Answered
How do you fund master data management? It's no small challenge, and the fact is, few have managed to fund stand-alone MDM projects, according to Wayne Eckerson, director of TDWI Research. Funding can be even more of a challenge if your company recently invested in similar projects, such as data...
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Identifying the Business Case for Multidomain MDM
Yesterday, when I wrote about future trends in master data management, I referred to a recent Information Management article by Marty Mosely, which warned the business needs should determine which architectural style you use for multidomain master data management. Moseley, the CTO for Initiate...
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Cutter Consortium Offers Free Journal on Semantic Enterprise
On Wednesday I wrote about semantic technology's implication for the enterprise. In that post, I shamelessly hinted that it'd be great if the Cutter Consortium would offer non-members a look at the Cutter piece “The Rise of the Semantic Enterprise.” Guess what? Cutter did. And it turns out it's...
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Step One for MDM Success: Communicate Its Value
As I see it, master data management is basically about resolving communication problems – you have one version of the customer or product data, I have another, let's put them together and figure out who's right. So, forgive me if I find it a tad ironic that the first factor David Loshin lists...
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Future Trends for Master Data Management
Normally, people save predictions for the end of the year, but I personally always thought Halloween was a much more appropriate holiday for crystal balls. Maybe I'm not the only one, because this week, blogger and software industry analyst R “Ray” Wang seems to have peered into the crystal ball...
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Take the Strategic View on Data Integration Projects
There are a number of technological factors driving data-integration projects within organizations right now. Service-oriented architecture, modernizing or replacing legacy systems , Master Data Management and adding complex or data exchange projects all require data integration. So, it's...
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Discussion Focuses on Master Data Management as Critical SOA-Enabler
ebizQ is hosting a discussion tomorrow on an increasingly hot topic: MDM as a critical enabler for SOA . It's the critical part that really sells it, I think. MDM as not only a SOA-enabler, but a critical one at that. The value of MDM for SOA has been a topic for some years now, but it...
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The Politics of Data Silos
I was a bit confounded recently when Tony Fisher, president of DataFlux, told me that MDM could just become yet another data silo . His point was that you shouldn't just buy an MDM solution and expect it to solve all your problems; you've got to look at the processes, too. Okay, that makes...
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A Single Version of the Truth? Ask Fox Mulder
There's a lot of debate about what the recession – that's right; I said it - will mean for IT , tech workers and various IT-related initiatives, including Web 2.0 and SOA , which is already slowing . But there's one tech area that's thriving, in part because of the economic...
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