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February 3, 2010, 5:57 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | One comment |

News Analysis: IBM Acquires MDM Leader Initiate Systems For Public Sector and Healthcare Prowess

IBM Adds A Leading Customer Data Integration/MDM Pioneer To Its Master Information Management Arsenal

With arguably 10 master information management acquisitions since 2003, IBM continues to push towards its goal of adaptive master data management (MDM) (see Figure 1).  The recent acquisition of Initiate Systems comes after the heals of Oracle’s purchase of SilverCreek Systems in [...]

February 1, 2010, 3:51 pm | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 5 comments |

News Analysis: Siperian Acquisition Vaults Informatica Into An MDM Leadership Position

Informatica Enters The Battle For Master Data Management Dominance

As with any best of breed market, only a few will survive and even fewer will succeed.  Despite a leading offering, Siperian’s faced a rocky financial situation over the past 12 months.  Many suitors pursued Siperian but in the end Informatica’s $130M acquisition of Siperian took one [...]

December 22, 2009, 12:34 pm | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 8 comments |

Tuesday’s Tip: 10 Cloud and SaaS Apps Strategies For 2010

Keep In Mind Basic Rules Still Apply Regardless Of Deployment Option

The proliferation of SaaS solutions provides organizations with a myriad of sorely needed point and disruptive solutions.  Good news - business users can rapidly procure and deploy, while innovating with minimal budget and IT team constraints.  Bad news - users must depend more on their [...]

October 26, 2009, 8:55 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 5 comments |

Trends: Master Data Management 2010 - Focus On Outcomes Drives Push For Value

Market pressures and organizational maturity drives new master data management (MDM) trends
Conversations with 31 leading edge organizations seeking business transformation highlight shifts in the MDM trends of the past.  Organizations awash in data need to move beyond the clutter and get to the information.  More data does not equate to more information.  In order to [...]

October 9, 2009, 11:59 pm | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | Leave a comment |

Friday’s Feature: D&B Purisma Launches First Step To Hosted MDM Solution

Complete Customer Addresses Today’s Market Conditions
On October 5th, D&B Purisma Solutions group announced its first hosted business data management app.  When generally available in November 2009, Complete Customer will deliver a customer database that will be self managed by organizations departments.  Organizations and their departments will take ownership of their data in a hosted offering.  [...]

September 15, 2009, 7:56 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | One comment |

News Analysis: Jive and Radian6 Partner - Great For Business, But Could Fragment IT Systems

This post was collaboratively written on a wiki with my colleague Jeremiah Owyang whose focus is on customer strategy which encompasses social technologies. Together, we’re covering convergence of the emerging and incumbent technology system.  This entry is also cross-posted on his blog.

Jive Offers Brand Monitoring Using Radian 6 -Empowering Companies To Quickly Respond
Jive Software made [...]

September 9, 2009, 8:21 pm | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 5 comments |

Event Report: Salesforce.com Pushes Social CRM Technology — But Don’t Expect Companies To Be Successful With Tools Alone

This post was co-written with Jeremiah Owyang, Partner and Colleague at Altimeter Group

Above: Pictures from Salesforce’s event
Salesforce.com launches a new set of social apps that make CRM connected to the social web. So what does it mean?
Salesforce.com’s Twitter integration and application launch helps brands monitor what’s being said. Yet despite the fanfare, the application lacks [...]

August 31, 2009, 2:18 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 13 comments |

Monday’s Musings: Why Every Social CRM Initiative Needs An MDM Backbone

Proliferation and access to new social tools creates significant challenges for organizations
Organizations engaged in Social CRM initiatives often start out by monitoring the chatter and conversation across a few platforms and channels such as Facebook and Twitter.  As these organizations increase their savviness, they quickly realize the enormity of the challenge.  The exponential number of [...]

February 2, 2009, 5:04 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 6 comments |

Monday’s Musings: Master Data Management - Do Styles of MDM Matter Anymore?


December 29, 2008, 3:33 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | 4 comments |

Monday’s Musings: A Year of Extremes Brings Us Back Full Circle to the Beginning of the Dot.Com Bust

With a few days left in the year, it’s hard to believe that 2008 is almost over.  Just like our paltry .401K’s and lowered gas prices, it’s like we reverted to the Dot Com bust.  Extreme contrasts in positions and tremendous change made 2008 both exciting, suspenseful, and frankly sobering like 2002.  In fact, it [...]

November 3, 2008, 10:53 pm | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | Leave a comment |

Speaking Engagement: Seven Recession-Proof Packaged Apps Strategies

Seven Recession-Proof Packaged Apps Strategies
Monday, November 17, 2008, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Eastern time (19:00-20:00 UK time)
Presented By:
Paul D. Hamerman
Vice President, Principal Analyst
Forrester Research, Inc.
R “Ray” Wang
Vice President, Principal Analyst
Forrester Research, Inc.
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Who should attend: Application Development & Program Management professionals
Description:
As the global economy enters into a recession, enterprises must not only respond to this change but [...]

October 22, 2008, 10:32 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | One comment |

Event Report: Siperian Masters 2008 - Customers Confirm Multi-Entity MDM Trends

(Photo: Siperian Masters’08 registration area.  Copyright © 2008 R Wang. All rights reserved.)
About 200 attendees were present as Ramon Chen, VP of Marketing, kicked off the event to the theme of adventurers and pioneers in MDM at the Bridgewater Marriott (New Jersey).   CEO, Peter Caswell, led the keynote session with a view on where [...]

October 21, 2008, 2:15 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | One comment |

Tuesday’s Tip: Master Data Management - Focus on the End in Mind

“Begin with the end in mind is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things.
~ The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey”

This Coveyism rings quite true especially with MDM deployments.  Those seeking to innovate [...]

October 2, 2008, 11:56 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | One comment |

Event Report: Initiate Exchange - Customers Confirm Latest Customer Hub/MDM Trends

Quick thoughts from Scottsdale.  Initiate as many you know is one of the leaders in the customer hubs/MDM market.  At their annual conference, Initiate Exchange, a few key trends emerged from conversations with customers and partners:

Rapid deployment still key to securing buy-in a the business level. The registry style approach lends itself to demonstrating quick [...]

November 5, 2007, 5:49 pm | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | Leave a comment |

News Analysis: Dun and Bradstreet Acquires Purisma

On November 5th, Short Hills, NJ-based Dun and Bradstreet revealed its $48M acquisition of Purisma, Inc, a, Redwood City, CA provider of customer hub solutions. Until now, the majority of DandB’s expertise had been applied to the company’s flagship hosted services and data products, not its on-site Integration Manager or customer hub solution. The acquisition [...]

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Event Report: i2 Planet 2007, Orlando, FL

Given the recent consolidation in the industry and increasing dominance of both Oracle and SAP, I couldn’t help but wonder if supply chain had gone the way of CRM or if it was a specialized field that would continue to stand out like business intelligence. In fact, I normally don’t specialize in supply [...]

April 20, 2007, 5:29 am | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post | One comment |

MDM and the Information Supply Chain: Applying Supply Chain Principles to MDM

Like demand signals in the supply chain for the auto industry, the flow of information via data drives our ability to evaluate, decide, and act in our information worker economy. Delivering relevant data to the right person, time, and place, in the appropriate context remains a key challenge MDM professionals encounter. Taking a page out [...]