Posted on May 9, 2008 by Dan Power
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I’m really looking forward to speaking at next week’s Decisions, Information and Governance conference in Las Vegas, sponsored by The Palladium Group.
And I spoke earlier this week at the New England Oracle SOA Users Group, talking about Master Data Management as a [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by Gaurav Arora
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In this article, we’ll give some perspective on the current state of the Master Data Management (MDM) market.
Well-meaning skeptics have raised doubts about whether MDM initiatives have long-term viability, sufficient ROI or in fact, are just another system. This skepticism is, of [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2008 by Maureen Butler
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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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Posted on April 29, 2008 by Dan Power
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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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Posted on April 27, 2008 by Dan Power
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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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Posted on April 24, 2008 by Gaurav Arora
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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Posted on April 18, 2008 by Dan Power
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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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Posted on April 17, 2008 by Dan Power
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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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Posted on April 16, 2008 by Gaurav Arora
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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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Posted on April 15, 2008 by Dan Power
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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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Posted on April 14, 2008 by Gaurav Arora
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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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Posted on April 8, 2008 by Dan Power
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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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Posted on April 3, 2008 by Gaurav Arora
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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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Posted on April 1, 2008 by Maureen Butler
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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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Posted on March 31, 2008 by Tim O'Sullivan
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Building a “Single Version of the Truth” can be more expensive than you expect, and documenting and measuring its ROI requires careful thought.
Good planning is more necessary than ever in an uncertain economic climate. The result of inadequate planning can be misdirected [...]
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Posted on March 27, 2008 by Dan Power
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We’re really looking forward to the MDM Summit conference in San Francisco, which runs from Sunday, March 30th through Tuesday, April 1st.
This is a very exciting space. Over the past few years, we’ve seen the mega-vendors like Oracle, IBM and SAP get more [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Dan Power
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Hub Solution Designs, Inc. was incorporated in September 2007. At this point in our history, I thought I’d spend a few minutes reflecting on what we’ve done so far and where we’re headed.
Clients: we’ve been lucky to get off to a strong start [...]
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Posted on March 25, 2008 by Dan Power
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I was reading a whitepaper by Aaron Zornes today (”2007-2008 Scorecards for Data Governance in the Global 5000 Enterprise” 
and came across an interesting quote:
“Although many organizations have improved end-to-end business processes through CRM implementations, the challenge of developing a unified [...]
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Posted on March 19, 2008 by Dan Power
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We just published the March issue of our monthly newsletter on MDM Best Practices.
This issue has a great article on “How to Write an RFP for Master Data Management” by Ravi Shankar of Siperian. We’ve also got a new team member who [...]
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Posted on March 14, 2008 by Dan Power
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I don’t want to interrupt the flow of Maureen Butler’s great series on “Building the Business Case”, but I just spoke to Julie Langenkamp, Editor-in-Chief at DM Review, and I’ve agreed to become a monthly columnist for their online edition.
The column will run [...]
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Posted on March 12, 2008 by Maureen Butler
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When it comes to building the case for an Information Management strategy, cost reductions alone may generate enough benefits to justify your business case, or they could further enhance your economic arguments.
Here are some examples of where you may uncover potential cost [...]
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Posted on March 10, 2008 by Maureen Butler
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When you’re building the business case for an Information Management strategy such as MDM, CDI, Data Governance, or Data Quality, start by articulating the business problems or opportunities. By building a compelling case and getting executive sponsorship, you’ll have a stronger chance [...]
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Posted on March 7, 2008 by Dan Power
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Some client quotes at the end of a recent site visit:
“It’s not possible for one person to have all the necessary expertise, so we underutilize a lot of the tools. We struggle for the fixes, for the process; we don’t know next [...]
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Posted on March 4, 2008 by Tim O'Sullivan
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As the early adopters of Master Data Management are starting to move beyond their single data domain implementations and branching out to other domains, we’re seeing the timely arrival of MDM hubs capable of handling data from multiple domains. So, what are [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2008 by Dan Power
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We wrote the cover story in this month’s issue of DM Review magazine.
The article is on “The Politics of Master Data Management & Data Governance”, and you can find it at: http://www.dmreview.com/issues/2007_45/10000894-1.html.
Please let us know what you think!
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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 [...]
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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 January 31, 2008 by Dan Power
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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 [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2008 by Gaurav Arora
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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 [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2008 by Gaurav Arora
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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 [...]
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Posted on January 23, 2008 by Dan Power
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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 [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2008 by Dan Power
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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 [...]
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Posted on January 20, 2008 by Dan Power
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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 [...]
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Posted on January 9, 2008 by Dan Power
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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 [...]
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Posted on December 14, 2007 by Tim O'Sullivan
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Customer Data Integration (CDI) was declared “done” by industry analyst Aaron Zornes at the recent CDI-MDM Summit conference in New York.
Most leading edge companies implementing CDI have the technology, business processes, and data governance in place. So for some MDM practitioners [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2007 by Tim O'Sullivan
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What an exciting week we had!
First, the Siperian users’ conference on Tuesday, followed by the CDI-MDM Summit in New York on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
The biggest theme reiterated by the majority of speakers throughout the week for a successful MDM implementation was [...]
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Posted on November 17, 2007 by Dan Power
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The Fall 2007 CDI-MDM Summit has wrapped up. It seemed even more intense than the Spring ‘07 conference. More consulting firms and software vendors exhibiting, more real world case studies from companies that have implemented or are implementing MDM solutions. More hallway [...]
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Posted on November 15, 2007 by Dan Power
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Well, the first day of the CDI-MDM Summit is behind us.
I always enjoy the conferences that Aaron Zornes and SourceMedia put on. I attended and spoke at both of the U.S. CDI-MDM Summit conference in 2006, and the Spring 2007 conference [...]
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Posted on November 14, 2007 by Dan Power
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This morning, Tim O’Sullivan and I attended David Loshin’s session on “Data Profiling, Data Governance, and Data Quality for Master Data Governance”.
I really enjoyed it. Being a self-admitted “data geek”, it was a great review, and I learned a few new [...]
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Posted on November 9, 2007 by Dan Power
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The deadline for submitting a paper to the Collaborate 2008 conference of the Oracle Applications User Group (OAUG) is 11:59 pm Eastern time TODAY!
Gaurav Arora and myself have both submitted our own papers. Andrew Kapochunas from D&B submitted one that he [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2007 by Dan Power
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Tim O’Sullivan and I are really looking forward to the CDI-MDM Summit next week in New York.
We’ve been looking over the agenda and it looks great. There are a lot of very good sessions planned. I’ve spoken at all three of the [...]
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Posted on November 6, 2007 by Dan Power
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Tonight, Hub Solution Designs joined the Oracle Applications User Group (OAUG).
I’ve been an OAUG member at previous companies since 1995, and have always found it a great organization. The idea of having a strong, independent Oracle Applications users group makes a [...]
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Posted on October 31, 2007 by Dan Power
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I just read a great article by Stephen Putman at http://www.tdan.com/view-articles/6122.
His main points are that:
CDI and MDM platforms ”are ‘just another system’, with the attendant expense in both procurement and implementation”
“The products (naturally) work best in a homogenous environment, ignoring the reality [...]
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Posted on October 28, 2007 by Dan Power
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At Hub Solution Designs, we refer to the different major areas of master data as “domains”.
According to a survey by The Data Warehousing Institute in mid-2006, the domain most often defined in master data is the customer (74%), followed by products (54%) [...]
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Posted on October 15, 2007 by Gaurav Arora
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In an earlier article, we covered the similarities between ERP and MDM. In this piece, we want to touch on some differences.
Timing of the Data Analysis Stage: Unlike ERP, Data Analysis needs to come in the very first stage of an MDM [...]
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Posted on October 10, 2007 by Dan Power
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Here are ten best practices for MDM and CDI that I’ve picked up, based on years of working as a technology consultant and managing a strategic alliance between one of the leading information providers and a large software company.
1. Active, involved executive [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2007 by Dan Power
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As a member of the Education Committee for the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG), I’m helping to plan next April’s COLLABORATE 08 Conference (I’m managing the “Master Data Management” track). Here’s the announcement of the current Call for Papers, which ends at [...]
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Posted on October 6, 2007 by Dan Power
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I’ve been working with Oracle’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application, now called the E-Business Suite, since 1995.
My first exposure was as the project manager for an Oracle Release 10.5 implementation at a manufacturing company. Later, I was part of the Oracle practices [...]
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Posted on September 5, 2007 by Dan Power
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“Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.” — Ambrose Bierce, American journalist and writer
The organizational, political and cultural aspects of Master Data Management (MDM) and Customer Data Integration (CDI) can be more challenging than the [...]
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Posted on August 28, 2007 by Dan Power
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I think you can boil a successful Master Data Management (MDM) or Customer Data Integration (CDI) initiative down to these five essential elements:
(1) a Hub of some type - there are three major types of MDM-CDI hubs. In a [...]
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