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Geocoding’s Big Business Value
Geocoding converts street addresses to latitude and longitude coordinates enabling us to map to a physical location. Your car’s Graphical Positioning System (GPS), for example, provides a type of...
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Master Data Management – Vision
I see week after week in the field a lot of misunderstanding around the Vision of Data Management & Master Data Management. What do I mean by misunderstanding? Well, the most typical case is around...
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Strategy of Data Management – How to do it?
Sometimes a Strategy for Data Management is difficult to create and align with vision (please see Master Data Management – Vision) because too many times organizations rush into implementing random MDM...
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Data Profiling – and the Moment of Truth
There’s an old, generic sales adage: Make them sick; make them well. In other words, identify the symptoms, diagnose the malady, and then provide the remedy. As an MDM sales guy during an earlier...
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Happy Birthday, MDM!
Andy Hayler, CEO and industry analyst at The Information Difference sees reason for celebrating an MDM milestone: “By my reckoning, the master data management (MDM) industry is 10 years old this year....
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MDM Supports the “Digital Business Platform”
During his keynote presentation at Innovation World in New Orleans, CTO, Dr. Wolfram Jost spoke to a large audience of Software AG customers and partners, both from new and conventional industries....
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MDM’s Meaning of Coexistence
One critical step to successful Master Data Management implementation is establishing the enterprise relationship between the MDM hub (the repository for governing physical data), and mission-critical...
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Playing Hide-and-Seek with Metadata
We do go on at length about master data, reference data and hierarchies. We discover and analyze these datasets, avoid duplicating them, insist on governance – and advocate their reuse, adoption and...
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ERP’s Data Quality Myth
Back in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, the mainframe was king. For those users not lucky enough to have a console enabling data entry directly to analog/magnetic tape, good integration meant keeping your box...
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