Hub Solution Designs

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In the previous installments of this series, we covered three key drivers for building your business case: Risk Management, Cost Reduction, and Revenue Growth.
Now, we’ll review the importance of and the process for gaining organizational alignment with your strategy.
When you’re building support [...]

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I was interviewed recently at the Spring 2008 MDM Summit in San Francisco.
DMRadio (which broadcasts weekly on DMReview.com) did a broadcast from the exhibit floor, featuring:

Marty Moseley from Initiate Systems
Christopher Dwight from Oracle
Dan Power from Hub Solution Designs
Justin Magruder from Freddie Mac
Richard [...]

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A very interesting MDM speaking engagement came up recently, at the DIG 2008: Decisions, Information and Governance Conference in Las Vegas on May 13-15.
The conference organizer, The Palladium Group, says:
DIG is the foremost performance management and analytics conference designed to provide business leaders [...]

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Master Data Management (MDM) initiatives often seem to begin with the CIO and consequently, the implementation takes on a strong technology focus.
But in today’s article, we want to suggest an approach that’s more likely to succeed in the long run – tying the MDM project to solving an important business problem, and then [...]

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At the recent MDM Summit conference in San Francisco, I attended the “MDM Boot Camp” session put on by Aaron Zornes and Ed Allburn with my colleague, Maureen Butler.
I’ve attended five MDM Summit conferences at this point, but never had a chance [...]

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I just got the “MDM Report” newsletter from DMReview.com, and it had a good article by Jim Ericson on the MDM Summit held recently in San Francisco.
It also featured our article on “The Politics of Master Data Management and Data Governance“.
I thought [...]

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In a bid to position themselves as leaders in the Master Data Management space, several vendors position their MDM platform as a complete solution.
The truth is that these claims are somewhat misleading. Some claim that Data Governance (a critical component of an [...]

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I just attended a great session by Haidong Song from Oracle in the MDM track at the COLLABORATE 08 conference, being put on this week in Denver by the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG). 
I’ve known Haidong for several years, from my “previous life” [...]

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Today, we’ll talk about some criteria you can use to evaluate Master Data Management vendors.
Before you go into “evaluation mode”, it’s important that, on the business side, you first have your MDM strategy chalked out.
And on the technical side, you should have mapped [...]

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Last week’s MDM Summit conference was great, as usual.  Attendance may have been down slightly due to the well-publicized economic situation.  But there were still a lot of “end user companies” in attendance, either speaking or attending to learn more about this fast-growing [...]

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As SOA (service oriented architecture) initiatives gain popularity, let’s look at how MDM (master data management) and data governance can dovetail with a SOA strategy.
SOA, although technically a type of IT architecture, is more of an integrated approach to building high-level services [...]

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Business Growth is really the heart of your business case. If you can identify how an Information Management strategy will enable your company’s growth, then your chances of success go way up!
This topic may be a little more difficult to document, but [...]

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