Articles Featuring MDM 2010

  • 24 August, 2010 – New Survey Shows Urgent Need for Data Governance Technology
    By Winston Chen in Kalido Conversations
    Information Difference just published a new study based on a survey exploring the links between data governance, master data management (MDM) and data quality. While it’s full of insights, I’m particularly struck by how urgently companies are expressing the need for data governance technology.

  • 23 August, 2010 – Data Governance is a Prerequisite for Effective MDM and Data Quality
    Blog by Dave Waddington, Kalido Conversations
    The Information Difference today released the results of a new study we conducted on the relationship among data governance, master data management (MDM) and data quality. Quite a bit has changed since we conducted a benchmark study on data governance adoption in the summer of 2008, but we wanted to measure exactly how much.

  • 31 July, 2010 – Managing master data: tips on linking data warehouses to MDM systems
    By David Waddington in SearchDataManagement.co.uk
    There are two primary approaches to master data management: operational MDM and analytical MDM. The former focuses on ensuring that data that should be the same across different operational systems actually is the same. Analytical MDM, on the other hand, is generally associated with data warehousing and has been adopted by organisations looking to improve the speed and quality of their business intelligence (BI) reporting processes.

  • 21 July, 2010 – Data Governance More Popular Among Those Deploying MDM
    By Loraine Lawson in IT Business Edge
    It seems companies are interested in applying master data management beyond the typical master data domains of customer and product data. According to a recent survey by The Information Difference, companies apply MDM to an average of four domains, with location and supplier data following customer and product data in importance.

  • 16 July, 2010 – Link Between Data Warehousing and MDM
    By David Waddington, The Information Difference, in InfoManagement Direct
    The results of new Information Difference research show an increasing focus on implementing master data management to support both existing and new data warehousing initiatives.

  • 1 July, 2010 – Building on Solid Foundations
    By Andy Hayler, The Information Difference Ltd.
    Our research consistently shows that customers want to take a consistent approach to their master data, irrespective of data domain. In other words, they want a solution that can handle products and customers, but also other master data such as locations, assets, financial data and people. Yet the industry has generally focused on providing products that have been designed to handle either product data (PIM solutions) or customer data (CDI).

  • 3 June, 2010 – The Link Between Data Warehousing and MDM
    By David Waddington, The Information Difference Ltd.
    At The Information Difference we were interested in exploring the linkage between master data and data warehouses and to understand the scale, scope and success rates of MDM and data warehousing initiatives in business. We have therefore conducted a survey into the link between data warehousing and master data management.

  • 15 April, 2010 – Successful matching leads to marriage
    By Andy Hayler, The Information Difference Ltd.
    Matching specialist Netrics was this week acquired by Tibco.

  • 15 April, 2010 – TIBCO Makes MDM Move, but Where Is Oracle?
    Posted by Loraine Lawson in IT Business Edge
    It’s spring, and for the next two months in my town, everyone will be obsessed with two things: Flowers and The Kentucky Derby. Everybody loves a good race, and let me tell you, it’s two of the best minutes in racing.

    But, if horses aren’t your thing, there’s always the race going on in the master data management space. It’s not quite as fast or colorful, but as more specialized, niche players are acquired, the stakes could get just as high.

  • 15 April, 2010 – Master data management projects in practice [Talend]
    in CIO
    While many Systems Integrators currently claim or suggest they have extensive implementation expertise in master data management, there is little concrete information available regarding the use of systems integrators by end-user organisations for implementing master data management programs in business. This whitepaper looks at the results of a survey of both end-user organisations and systems integrators aimed at gaining deeper insight into the levels of expertise, experience, and usage of systems integrators specifically related to undertaking MDM implementations.

  • 8 February, 2010 – Appliances Are Getting Cheaper
    By Andy Hayler, The Information Difference Ltd.
    At the beginning of February a new data warehouse appliance will appear: InfiniDB is a columnar, software-only appliance that has been in an open-source preview form for a few months now.

  • 8 February, 2010 – The Other Shoe Drops
    By Andy Hayler, The Information Difference Ltd.
    I have been speculating for years now about when Informatica would finally enter the MDM marketplace. It is a leader in the integration space, and has good data quality offerings via its acquisitions of Similarity Systems, and more recently Identity Systems and Address Doctor. I am not sure why Informatica held off so long from gaining exposure to the fast growing MDM market, but its purchase of an MDM platform hub has seemed almost inevitable.

  • 8 February, 2010 – Singing the MDM Blues
    By Andy Hayler, The Information Difference Ltd.
    It has been a busy week on the MDM M&A front, as in addition to Informatica’s purchase of Siperian, IBM also opened its cheque book to buy Initiate, which was the largest independent MDM vendor …

  • 8 February, 2010 – Keeping An Open Mind
    By Andy Hayler, The Information Difference Ltd.
    On 25th January open source vendor Talend announced the general availability of Talend MDM, an open source master data management (MDM) product based on their earlier acquisition of French MDM technology Xtentis from Amalto.

  • 31 December, 2009Master Data Management Projects in Practice
    By David Waddington, The Information Difference Ltd.
    While many SIs currently claim or suggest they have extensive implementation expertise in master data management, there is little concrete information available regarding the use of systems integrators by end-user organizations for implementing master data management programs in business. We have therefore conducted a survey of both end-user organizations and systems integrators aimed at gaining deeper insight into the levels of expertise, experience and usage of systems integrators specifically related to undertaking MDM implementations.