Posted on February 29, 2008 by Dan Power
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Just saw Microsoft’s MDM Roadmap on a blog entry by someone named Sandeep Kalyanimath.
It was interesting reading. Seems Microsoft didn’t bury the Stratature technology after all, but is using it as the foundation for its entry into the MDM market. The new [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2008 by Tim O'Sullivan
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Metadata management is often overlooked, misunderstood or assumed to be taken care of automatically as part of an MDM initiative. While it’s true that databases can generate metadata reports based on a logical data model, there’s a lot more than that to [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2008 by Dan Power
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I’m very pleased to announce that Maureen Butler is joining us as a Senior Consultant. She brings significant SAP information management, marketing, supply chain, organizational design and change management expertise to the team.
Prior to joining the firm, she was Director, Customer Information [...]
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Posted on February 25, 2008 by Dan Power
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At Hub Solution Designs, our MDM partnership strategy is pretty straightforward.
We are a management & technology consulting firm focused exclusively on Master Data Management and Data Governance. Our strategy is to partner with all of the leading MDM vendors, because there is no [...]
Filed under: Assessment, CDI, Customer Data Integration, Data Quality, Governance, MDM, Master Data Management, Readiness, Strategy | Tagged: D&B, IBM, Initiate, Oracle, Oracle Applications Users Group, partnership, Purisma, SAP, Siperian | 2 Comments »
Posted on February 25, 2008 by Dan Power
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Another one-pager today on our MDM Software Evaluation & Selection service offering.
Please let us know if you have any feedback for us on it.
Also, we’ll be announcing a new team member later on today, and we’re very excited about her joining us!
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Posted on February 20, 2008 by Dan Power
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We published another one-page document today on our Business Case Creation & ROI Analysis service offering. Please let us know what you think …
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Posted on February 19, 2008 by Dan Power
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Today, we published two one-page documents on our Educational Workshops and Readiness Assessment service offerings on our web site.
Please let us know what you think of them …
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Posted on February 19, 2008 by Tim O'Sullivan
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Most data quality initiatives consist of processes, procedures and technology, with the goal of achieving a desired level of quality in corporate data.
While companies sometimes did data quality projects prior to the emergence of MDM, I cannot stress enough how important it [...]
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Posted on February 14, 2008 by Dan Power
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It never rains but it pours. It looks like we’re going to be doing two speaking engagements in March & April - at the Spring 2008 MDM Summit in San Francisco, CA, and the Oracle Applications Users Group COLLABORATE 08 conference in [...]
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Posted on February 7, 2008 by Tim O'Sullivan
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Well, the short answer is – “it depends”! Putting aside the conventional answer for the moment, I’d say that a critical first step in achieving a pragmatic MDM strategy is that your company must agree and commit to developing a 3-5 year [...]
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Posted on February 1, 2008 by Dan Power
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We’ve just launched a completely redesigned web site for Hub Solution Designs, Inc..
We evaluated several hosted website building tools, and ended up selecting SiteKreator. It had the right blend of features & functionality, and included reasonably priced site hosting in addition to [...]
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