Multidomain MDM: The Best Value For Your Company
This Thursday, May 2nd, Dan Power from Hub Designs is conducting a webinar with Stibo Systems on “4 Ways Multidomain MDM Can Benefit Any Company”.
Jill Dyche’s Talk at Gartner MDM 2013
I attended the Gartner 2013 MDM Summit, and had a chance to hear Jill Dyche, VP of Best Practices at SAS. Read more 
Dan Power From Hub Designs Presenting at 2013 Gartner MDM Summit
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Dan Power From Hub Designs Presenting at 2013 Gartner Master Data Management Summit
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Data Management for Dummies, by Dmitry Kovalchuk
In the beginning was the Word. What is the “Word”? For the purposes of this article, the “word” is Data or Information. It is the basis of all things. Read more
Product Information Management (PIM) Data Governance, by Jackie Roberts
a great article by Jackie Roberts on data governance for Product MDM
Webinar Replay: “Data Governance – a Strong Foundation for Your MDM Journey”
This complementary web seminar is sponsored by Hub Designs and IBM, and is presented by Information Management. Read more
Getting What You Need from Your Enterprise Architect
This article captures a session at the recent conference of the Data Governance SIG of the Americas SAP User Group (ASUG) by George Bryce, Corporate Data Architect at Procter & Gamble. Read more
Seven Fatal Errors in MDM and How to Avoid Them, by John Owens
The business practice referred to as Master Data Management (MDM) is plagued with seven fatal errors that prevent enterprises from achieving success, no matter how much money or effort is thrown at the problem. Read more
Baker Hughes: Bringing Data into the Future
This article captured a session presented at the recent conference of the Data Governance Special Interest Group of the Americas SAP User Group (ASUG) by Sally Cheadle, VP Enterprise Finance Organization Center of Practice for Baker Hughes. Read more
Being a Data Scientist by Carla Gentry
Being a “Data Scientist” Is As Much About IT As It Is Analysis
by Data Nerd, aka Carla Gentry Read more
MDM Track’s Call for Papers at COLLABORATE 2013
For about seven years now, I’ve volunteered on the Education Committee of the Oracle Application Users Group. The COLLABORATE 13 Call for Presentations is closing this Friday, October 12, 2012.
MDM Track’s Call for Papers at COLLABORATE 2013
For about seven years now, I’ve volunteered on the Education Committee of the Oracle Application Users Group, an independent users group. The COLLABORATE 13 Call for Presentations will be open until October 12, 2012.
Five Key Factors in Architecting a Master Data Solution
By Prashanta Chandramohan
Over the last few years, Master Data has been recognized as one of the most important types of business information to be managed. Organizations are heading in the right direction by implementing Master Data Management (MDM) systems to take control of critical data like customers, products, employees, suppliers, materials, locations, etc. Read more
The Corner Office – To Whom Are the MDM Vendors Marketing?
A great article by David Pratt on the target market for most MDM vendors Read more
Seven Steps to Data Quality, by Kuppusamy Bhaskar
A great article on data quality by our friend Kuppusamy Bhaskar
MDM, SOA and BPM – Partners for Success, by Steve Minor
There’s a very interesting relationship between master data management (MDM), service oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM). Read more
A New Editor for Hub Designs Magazine
Big news for Hub Designs Magazine readers – we have a new editor! Read more
Loqate: Accuracy and Intelligence from Address Data
The Hub Designs MDM Think Tank recently received a briefing from Martin Turvey, CEO of Loqate.
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Data Governance Roundtable
Late breaking news: Dan Power from Hub Designs will be appearing in a “Data Governance Roundtable” tomorrow (Thursday, December 1st at 11:00 am EST / 10:00 am CST / 8:00 am PST). Read more
Where Data Governance Stops and Master Data Management Starts
I have to admit, the title is a slight misnomer. Data Governance (DG) never actually stops, but the lines of responsibility vary greatly based on the flavor and depth of Governance in an organization. From the other direction, MDM itself is an exercise in data governance, so can we extrapolate that MDM is really just DG? Read more
MDM: Why Good Business Practice Insight is Hard to Find
Another article that’s right on the money by Mark Allen, the co-author of Master Data Management in Practice – Achieving True Customer MDM. Read more
Organizing Data Governance for Success
This series on Data Governance is sponsored by SAP. Previous articles have included Why Govern Master Data?, Getting Started with Data Governance, Part 1 and Getting Started with Data Governance, Part 2. Read more
Getting Started with Data Governance, Part 2
This is the third article in an ongoing series on Data Governance sponsored by SAP. Here are Part One and Part Two of the series. Read more
Getting Started with Data Governance, Part 1
This is the second article in an ongoing series on Data Governance sponsored by SAP. You can find the first article in the series here. Read more
Why Govern Master Data?
While I’m on vacation for the next two weeks, Hub Designs Magazine will be republishing some of our most popular articles and series. This article, from an ongoing series on Data Governance sponsored by SAP, was first published on March 20th.
The most important thing about data governance is to “start from where you are”. Most companies are just getting started on their data governance journey. It can be hard to admit that your company is at data governance maturity level 0 or 1. But the most critical step is the first one – getting started. Read more
MDM Multi-Domain Planning And Challenges, by Mark Allen
Our latest article is by Mark Allen, the co-author of a Master Data Management in Practice – Achieving True Customer MDM. Read more
Organizing Data Governance for Success
This series on Data Governance is sponsored by SAP. Previous articles have included Why Govern Master Data?, Getting Started with Data Governance, Part 1 and Getting Started with Data Governance, Part 2. Read more
MDM Is Not Only About Aligning “Business” and “IT” (Part 1)
Business and IT alignment is a topic repeated ad nauseam. There seems to be a belief that the Holy Grail of IT is achieved once that alignment is in place. This belief applies strongly to Master Data Management (MDM) as well. Read more
Getting Started with Data Governance, Part 2
This is the third article in an ongoing series on Data Governance sponsored by SAP. Here are Part One and Part Two of the series. Read more
Getting Started with Data Governance, Part 1
This is the second article in an ongoing series on Data Governance sponsored by SAP. You can find the first article in the series here. Read more
It’s Good To Be On The First Page of Google
Google Search Results Heat Map
I was doing some research recently on the search terms that bring people to the Hub Designs Blog. So I took a few minutes and found that for the most frequently used 40 search terms over the past year that I looked at, the Hub Designs Blog was in the Top 10 search results on Google for every single one, with an average position of Google’s search results page of third. That, to me, is amazing. Read more
Why Govern Master Data?
This is the first article in an ongoing series on Data Governance sponsored by SAP.
The most important thing about data governance is to “start from where you are”. Most companies are just getting started on their data governance journeys. It can be hard to admit that your company is at data governance maturity level 0 or 1. But the most critical step is the first one – getting started. Read more
Hub Designs Blog’s Top 10 for 2010
Inspired by Crysta Anderson from Initiate, who put together IBM’s Mastering Data Management blog Top 10 Posts of 2010, I decided to put together a similar “Top Ten Posts of 2010″ for the Hub Designs Blog.
In our holiday greetings article, Thank You To Our Readers, we covered some of the top articles from the beginning of this blog in July 2007, and included some readership statistics, which we won’t bore you with today.
Our reports on MDM vendors like Oracle, IBM Initiate, Informatica (formerly Siperian), Kalido, and Orchestra Networks were very popular in 2010. And our series on MDM best practices, practicing enterprise architecture within MDM (by Jim Parnitzke) and on data profiling (by Rob DuMoulin) were also big hits.
Without further ado, here’s the Hub Designs Blog “Top 10 for 2010″.
- Oracle’s MDM Strategy and Roadmap – A look at Oracle’s MDM strategy and roadmap, from the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) COLLABORATE conference in April 2010.
- Building MDM-Powered Solutions with Initiate Composer – A description of Initiate’s new Composer product, which is a framework for building solutions on top of IBM’s Initiate Master Data Service hub.
- Master Data Management Best Practice Series, by Dan Power – A ten part series on MDM and data governance best practices, based on my presentation at Oracle OpenWorld 2010.
- Modeling the MDM Blueprint, by James Parnitzke – A six part series on applying important enterprise architecture concepts to MDM projects.
- Data Profiling For All The Right Reasons, by Rob DuMoulin – A five part series on data profiling and its role within MDM and data governance initiatives.
- Siperian Acquired By Informatica – My analysis of Siperian’s acquisition by Informatica, written on the day the news broke.
- Informatica Analyst Briefing – Hub Designs is regularly briefed by the major MDM vendors; this one by Informatica was about 2 months after the acquisition. A later briefing from October 2010 can be found here.
- Kalido MDM and AB InBev – I live blogged this at the Gartner MDM Summit during a session by Kalido’s President and CEO Bill Hewitt and Jonathan Starkey, the Director of Business Intelligence at AB InBev North America.
- Intersection of MDM, CRM and ERP – My article on Why Product Information Management in Information Management magazine sparked a short blog article by Andrew White of Gartner. The “Intersection of MDM, CRM and ERP” article is in response to Andrew’s.
- Orchestra Networks Enters Gartner Magic Quadrant – We thought it was newsworthy that Orchestra Networks, a specialized MDM vendor, was included in Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management of Product Data” for the first time. Also, Orchestra Networks sponsored a white paper titled A Real Multidomain MDM Solution or a Wannabe? by Hub Designs that was published in September.
It’s been a busy 2010. I recently read the 2009 Year in Review from this time last year, and was exhausted just reading it, but this year has been the same – several conferences (Gartner MDM Summit, OAUG COLLABORATE, Oracle OpenWorld, Kalido), webinars (with eLearning Curve, TechTarget and Oracle Applications Users Group) and some exciting things to look forward to and update you on in 2011.
I’d like to to thank my wife and two boys for their unwavering support throughout 2010 – and my heartfelt thanks to the folks on the Hub Designs team - I couldn’t do it without you!
And thank you – as always – for your readership and support. Happy New Year!
