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Help! My Data is Up There…
This is a true incident which happened a few months ago at an upcoming Bay Area-based wireless device manufacturer. I was there to meet with their IT director to discuss their enterprise integration...
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webMethods OneData – The Trusted Data Everywhere MDM Platform
The other day I was thinking about how our customers are accessing data residing in their webMethods OneData platform. Surprisingly, there are so many ways. For example, we have customers embedding...
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Taming Big Data and MDM with Integration
Note – This is a post authored by Rob Rowe, Sr. Manager, MDM Product Marketing, Software AG. I just helped in co-authoring the part about taming big data since I have already written on the topic...
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MDM and the Cloud
There has been a lot of discussion around master data management (MDM) in the cloud. Some analysts insist that the demand for placing MDM platforms in the cloud isn’t yet there. Nevertheless, there...
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Taming Big Data and MDM with Integration
We’ve all heard about big data and there are numerous definitions of it. Suffice to say, it’s a lot of data from both inside the organization (e.g. ERP, CRM, application logs, etc.) and outside the...
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BYOD Strategy – Manage the device or manage the data ?
If you look around the enterprise today more than half of your corporate colleagues sport two or more mobile devices with the majority now accessing company emails and documents directly from them....
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Two Important Roles for Process-Driven MDM
Let’s be clear: As part of an IT or data-driven Master Data Management initiative, a company could successfully master one or more critical, business domains and (without even particuarly thinking...
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MDM Should Imitate Life
It may not be an original observation, but have you ever noticed how many different types of data domains and data types populate a boarding pass? There’s master data represented by person (passenger...
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When Mobile Met Mainframe
Mobile technology is rapidly changing how we do business and engage with customers, business, institutions and each other. Consumers expect to shop, get quotes, apply for goods and services, and...
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Read Software AG’s ‘Innovation Through Master Data Management’
Creating and managing accurate and consistent data is still often considered the exclusive province of IT. But while IT knows best how to identify and fix the incongruences of physical data, data...
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Demo: Using webMethods OneData Workflow to Validate Change
OneData’s MDM governance framework provides a highly configurable workflow engine. Some companies, in fact, depend on OneData’s workflow as their primary tool for validating and approving changes made...
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MDM’s Template Tyranny
Though I will scrupulously avoid mentioning names of individuals and organizations, I can state now that MDM analysts are not of one mind when it comes to assessing products based on whether or not...
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5 Ways M&A Leads to MDM
According to a recent survey conducted by KPMG and Mergers & Acquisition Magazine, 63% of 1,000 M&A professionals in the US expect to execute acquisitions in 2014. While there are numerous,...
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Geocoding’s Big Business Value
Geocoding converts street addresses to latitude and longitude coordinates enabling us to map to a physical location. Your car’s Graphical Positioning System (GPS), for example, provides a type of...
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Why IPads are Expanding MDM Data Stewardship
In an earlier blog this year, I described how Przemek Kulik (our webMethods OneData product manager), profiled the role of data steward, identifying a trained and frequent MDM user with basic (or...
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Master Data Management – Vision
I see week after week in the field a lot of misunderstanding around the Vision of Data Management & Master Data Management. What do I mean by misunderstanding? Well, the most typical case is around...
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Managing Big Data? Don’t Forget Code Sets
Reference Data is typically defined as organizational code sets or look-up tables. Code set use cases include country codes, units of measure, product codes (assigning standardized attributes such as...
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Strategy of Data Management – How to do it?
Sometimes a Strategy for Data Management is difficult to create and align with vision (please see Master Data Management – Vision) because too many times organizations rush into implementing random MDM...
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Data Profiling – and the Moment of Truth
There’s an old, generic sales adage: Make them sick; make them well. In other words, identify the symptoms, diagnose the malady, and then provide the remedy. As an MDM sales guy during an earlier...
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Happy Birthday, MDM!
Andy Hayler, CEO and industry analyst at The Information Difference sees reason for celebrating an MDM milestone: “By my reckoning, the master data management (MDM) industry is 10 years old this year....
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