Trip Report – Day 1 at Gartner’s BI Summit
Kurt Schlegal and John van Decker kicked off the Gartner BI Summit with the Key note – entitled, “Overcoming the BIg Discrepancy – How BI Can do Better (with less)”. The key take-away for me was that...
View ArticleThe Importance of “applied data quality” to MDM
It is not often that I talk about vendors here – you know the trouble that can cause (!) but I had to mention that this week Oracle announced an OEM with Silver Creek Systems (see Oracle Improves Its...
View ArticleHow do you measure data quality?
I read today a good article on data quality, and specifically how to measure data quality (see How to Measure and Monitor the Quality of Master Data). Looking at the article I noted several items that...
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A tale of two MDM initiatives…
This week I had the pleasure of spending time with two end user organizations that helped me draw out some important considerations. Company A was very much a large, global concern who’s product is...
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New Book Review – The Data Asset, by Tony Fisher, CEO, DataFlux
This book (The Data Asset: How Smart Companies Govern Their Data for Business Success) arrived yesterday – and I had to read it overnight! What does that tell you about my sleeping habits? All...
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Can you “do” MDM without data quality?
I spied an interesting article last week in the InfoManagement blogs. It was, MDM Data Quality as a Process, by Jim Ericson. I thought it was interesting for a couple of reasons. I thought the...
View ArticleThe importance of Data to Supply Chain – Master Data and All That
I had the good fortune to attend an IBM SCM event recently (Chicago, IL). IBM was sharing its updated SCM vision to the market, along with some interesting SCM survey data highlighting priorities...
View ArticleData Quality does not Equal Data Governance
I was on a briefing the other day with a small software vendor talking about governance. We were exploring and contrasting experiences with how users look at “governance”. A couple of my favorite...
View ArticleDoes “MDM” include data quality, data governance, and enrichment processes?
I noted, with a wry smile, the following text in an Information Management article today, “MDM Achieving Maturity in Enterprises“, “The findings of this report mirror our own client experiences, namely...
View ArticleWhy don’t (business) users “get it”?
I did a joint customer call today with a colleague of mine, Ted Friedman. Ted is our main man in “data quality” world and as you can imagine, Ted does a lot of MDM related inquiries with customers...
View ArticleTrip Report – Day 1 at Gartner’s BI Summit
Kurt Schlegal and John van Decker kicked off the Gartner BI Summit with the Key note – entitled, “Overcoming the BIg Discrepancy – How BI Can do Better (with less)”. The key take-away for me was that...
View ArticleThe Importance of “applied data quality” to MDM
It is not often that I talk about vendors here – you know the trouble that can cause (!) but I had to mention that this week Oracle announced an OEM with Silver Creek Systems (see Oracle Improves Its...
View ArticleHow do you measure data quality?
I read today a good article on data quality, and specifically how to measure data quality (see How to Measure and Monitor the Quality of Master Data). Looking at the article I noted several items that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A tale of two MDM initiatives…
This week I had the pleasure of spending time with two end user organizations that helped me draw out some important considerations. Company A was very much a large, global concern who’s product is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Book Review – The Data Asset, by Tony Fisher, CEO, DataFlux
This book (The Data Asset: How Smart Companies Govern Their Data for Business Success) arrived yesterday – and I had to read it overnight! What does that tell you about my sleeping habits? All...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Can you “do” MDM without data quality?
I spied an interesting article last week in the InfoManagement blogs. It was, MDM Data Quality as a Process, by Jim Ericson. I thought it was interesting for a couple of reasons. I thought the...
View ArticleThe importance of Data to Supply Chain – Master Data and All That
I had the good fortune to attend an IBM SCM event recently (Chicago, IL). IBM was sharing its updated SCM vision to the market, along with some interesting SCM survey data highlighting priorities...
View ArticleData Quality does not Equal Data Governance
I was on a briefing the other day with a small software vendor talking about governance. We were exploring and contrasting experiences with how users look at “governance”. A couple of my favorite...
View ArticleDoes “MDM” include data quality, data governance, and enrichment processes?
I noted, with a wry smile, the following text in an Information Management article today, “MDM Achieving Maturity in Enterprises“, “The findings of this report mirror our own client experiences, namely...
View ArticleWhy don’t (business) users “get it”?
I did a joint customer call today with a colleague of mine, Ted Friedman. Ted is our main man in “data quality” world and as you can imagine, Ted does a lot of MDM related inquiries with customers...
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