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Created a Squidoo “Lens” on MDM

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A Squidoo “lens” is a view of a particular topic like Master Data Management. It’s an easy-to-build web page that can point to
• blogs
• favorite links
• RSS feeds
• Flickr photos
• Amazon books
• etc.
So when people are looking for information [...]

Different Styles of MDM Hub

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As part of a Master Data Management solution, one of the key decisions to be made is the choice of the MDM Hub architecture.
Gartner and others describe some two or three different Hub styles, but in this article, we’ll be paraphrasing those [...]

Critical Data Quality Questions

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In past issues of this blog, we’ve discussed aspects of the People, Process and Technology issues related to a Master Data Management program. In this article, we’ll touch on an equally important aspect – the underlying information.
Having decided on the domain [...]

Part 2: Two Critical Foundations of MDM Success

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We’ll resume the discussion on simplifying an MDM initiative down to its two core elements.
On enrichment with external or “third party” content, things tend to go two different ways here. Either your industry and company’s requirements require a large number of external [...]

Part 1: Two Critical Foundations of MDM Success

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As we’ve written before, we think there are five essential elements in successful Master Data Management initiatives:
(1) some type of MDM Hub
(2) some form of middleware & business process management
(3) enterprise data quality capabilities
(4) enrichment with external content
(5) data governance
But let’s try [...]

Current State of the MDM Market

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While I don’t have the latest market sizing figures in front of me (and I’m not sure how accurate they are anyway), I do believe that the Master Data Management market is growing fast.
But I don’t think that we’ve quite left [...]

Master Data Management in the New Year

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There’s a lot going on in the Hub Solution Designs and MDM world since we ticked over to a new year on the calendar:

We’ve got an article coming out in the March issue of DM Review
We’ve helped finalize the agenda for [...]