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com covers all the latest master data management (MDM) news. MDM is a discipline that involves people, process and technology. It helps enterprises define, link and maintain consistent definitions of "master" business objects such as customers, suppliers or products..
Our editors have put together a list of the top five recent MDM articles to make it easy for More... Nov 15, 2007
data integration (CDI) and master data management (MDM) markets continued to mature in 2007. Experts tell SearchDataManagement.com the big question now is not 'what are CDI and MDM?', but 'how do I sell them to management and how do I get started?' Here, CDI/MDM experts share more about the answers to these questions and reveal their forecasts for the year ahead.
Jan 1, 2008
re getting more confused about master data management (MDM) tools with each new product announcement, you're not alone.
Gartner and Forrester both recently released new frameworks and advice for understanding MDM-related technologies. The two firms' approaches are slightly different, but both study authors say they hope to help users make sense of the More... Dec 5, 2006
when requesting funding for master data management (MDM).
The IT group of Minneapolis-based Carlson Hotels Worldwide knew it needed MDM and customer data integration tools to fix the problems created by having 600 different property management systems at its franchised hotels. But rather than IT simply requesting funding to fix the infrastructure More... Dec 13, 2005
recent emphasis being placed on master data management (MDM) bothers Peggy Bocks, enterprise consultant with EDS. It's not the new technology that gets to her -- though the hype can be deafening -- but yet another new term, new software to buy and more big promises from vendors.
"It worries me that we seem to have strategies du jour with CDI [customer data integration] More... Dec 19, 2005
Institute (TDWI) to hold its first Master Data Management (MDM) Insight event. Attendees learned about new practices for aging IT infrastructures and heard about common problems that MDM early adopters have encountered -- some unexpected, some par for the course.
Many of the 104 attendees at last week's three-day event had little experience with MDM, though all plan More... Mar 11, 2008
and launched its own set of master data management (MDM) tools in 2002. It abandoned that development when it purchased Los Angeles-based A2i in 2004 and then repackaged A2i's product as its own.
MDM provides a framework to define the reference master data within a company. Reference data is a category of data that describes and defines transactions, such as a More... Dec 22, 2005
that it's jumping into the master data management (MDM) software market by acquiring a vendor, but analysts' reactions ranged from optimism to skepticism.
On Thursday, Microsoft announced its acquisition of Alpharetta, Ga.-based Stratature Inc. The deal closed this week and financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, according to Alex Payne More... Jun 8, 2007
lack of lubrication causes a car's gears to grind to a halt. MDM gives everyone in the enterprise a "common view" of key enterprise data such as customer and supplier records, and thus avoids this "seizing up."
More specifically, Infostructure Associates defines MDM as a solution including infrastructure software, business-process support, and applications that More... Feb 22, 2006
of the truth" about customers, as master data management (MDM) for customer data.
But, whatever you call it, the recent Magic Quadrant report on the topic lists IBM and Oracle as the top vendors in the space, just as it did last year. John Radcliffe, an analyst with the Stamford, Conn.-based research firm and the report's author, said Gartner changed the name to reflect a More... Aug 6, 2008
When it comes to evaluating master data management (MDM) vendors, confusion reigns. According to a recent report from analyst firm Forrester Research, customer data integration (CDI) vendors and other data integration specialists are rushing to brand themselves MDM vendors even when their focus is just one data domain, leaving many customers scratching More... Jul 8, 2008
s been a whole lot of talk about master data management (MDM) of late, although most of it is coming from IBM, not Oracle.
Implementing MDM requires more than just software. It combines middleware with data governance techniques in an effort to solve the problem of getting source or master data – and all of the copies of that data which tend to multiply More... Mar 16, 2006
taking part in the predicted master data management (MDM) spending spree, there are a few things buyers should know, according to a recent report by Forrester Research Inc.
First, there's no single, "complete" MDM technology product on the market yet, according to Rob Karel, study author and principal analyst with the Cambridge, Mass.-based analyst firm. No single More... Mar 21, 2007
may never achieve complete master data management (MDM), but speakers and attendees at last week's Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) conference say there are plenty of reasons to make the effort anyway.
Speaking to conference attendees, Cliff Longman, chief technology officer of Kalido, a Burlington, Mass.-based MDM software vendor, said that the benefits of More... Feb 28, 2006
Certainly not when it comes to master data management (MDM).
But as MDM gains traction in industries like financial services and pharmaceuticals, among others, more federal and state agencies are beginning to test the waters, implementing MDM systems to improve their identity management capabilities. Public sector agencies are using MDM to gain a single More... May 15, 2008
data integration (CDI) and master data management (MDM) technology conference told attendees.
At the first ever CDI-MDM summit being held here, conference chairman Aaron Zornes opened his keynote address by telling the crowd of vendor representatives and company technology professionals, "You are the vanguards." Zornes is the founder and chief research More... Mar 3, 2006
at Gartner's first annual master data management (MDM) Summit this week: Look to mud wrestling.
Ranjay Gulati, the Michael L. Nemmers distinguished professor of strategy and organizations for the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, took the stage here and shared something he heard from the champion of a recent national mud More... CHICAGO -- You'd think selling master data management (MDM) to the boss would be downright futile during an economic downturn, when companies are focused on just "keeping the lights on" and are not looking to invest in new technology. You'd think that, but you'd be wrong, according to Philip Lay, managing director of TCG Advisors, a San Bruno, Calif.-based IT consultancy. Nov 19, 2008
some possible ways to approach a master data management (MDM) initiative, began with a friendly but very real warning.
"If you've got lots of different copies of what should be the same information, but it's not the same, then potentially that is a business problem," said Cliff Longman, chief technology officer of Kalido, a Burlington, Mass.-based MDM software vendor.
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Need evidence that master data management (MDM) is an initiative companies are seriously concerned about? Look no further. A recent study from Framingham, Mass.-based research firm IDC predicts the market for MDM will reach $10.4 billion by 2009, a compound annual growth rate of 13.8%. Compliance will drive much of this investment as organizations More... Oct 19, 2005
and increasing interest in master data management (MDM) have all made CDI more viable and desirable to a growing number of organizations, according to John Radcliffe, research vice president with the Stamford, Conn.-based analyst firm. This is the third year that Gartner has analyzed the market for CDI hub software, which helps organizations integrate and
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Aug 8, 2007
for the data management market. Master data management (MDM) started to make more noise, data warehouse and business intelligence (BI) appliances became hot topics, and three of the top independent BI vendors were gobbled up by IT heavyweights SAP, Oracle and IBM. Now being as good a time as any to take a stroll down Memory Lane, we present the top 10 data management
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Jan 3, 2008
recognized as a subset of the master data management (MDM) discipline, and the CDI software market is maturing, according to Gartner's Magic Quadrant. But as companies deploy CDI, they're also finding that there's much more to it than technology. Data governance programs and organizational support are critical for CDI or MDM success and a challenge even for
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Dec 13, 2006
UAN) to compete with SAP Master Data Management (SAP MDM) and IBM, which recently acquired Atlanta-based DWL Inc., one of the leading master data management companies.
Oracle's own Customer Data Hub (CDH) launched a year ago to combat SAP's MDM initiative. It did not achieve its goal and Oracle has since talked very little about it. Master data hubs add very little More... Nov 3, 2005
is. So before beginning its master data management (MDM) project, the online gaming software company is first setting out to standardize metadata definitions. CIDC's dilemma is a common one, according to Rick Sherman, data management consultant and founder of Athena IT Solutions. Speaking last week at The Data Warehousing Institute's Boston chapter
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Jun 5, 2008
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