Aaron Zornes Data Governance Session at Oracle OpenWorld
I’ve always enjoyed the depth and quality of Aaron Zornes’ analysis on master data management. I’ve been attending the MDM Summit conferences that he organizes in the U.S. with SourceMedia since 2006, and I’ve spoken at quite a few of his events.
Today I had the pleasure of hearing him speak on enterprise data governance. Here are some of his major points:
- Don’t settle for “passive” / downstream data governance; instead demand “active” / upstream data governance (please see my white paper with Siperian on this at http://forms.siperian.com/content/PowerGovernancePR).
- Don’t expect data governance maturity assessments to solve all your problems and provide a roadmap out of data governance anarchy.
- Today’s “data stewardship consoles” are substantially less than true enterprise data governance.
- Vendor viability does matter.
- Be prepared to spend $250k-$500k for an initial data governance solution.
Aaron styles himself as the “godfather of MDM” and today was a good reminder of why he deserves that title.
MDM Institute Survey
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More Thoughts on the CDI-MDM Summit
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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 conversations and networking. More activity overall …
This is great for the MDM market place. Is there room for both Gartner and The CDI-MDM Institute to have conferences on this topic? My feeling is yes. Just like there’s an Oracle OpenWorld conference in the fall and an Oracle Applications User Group conference in the spring. They both come at the same subject matter from a different perspective. With Oracle, it’s obvious they’re in control of the agenda and selling more Oracle products is their goal. With OAUG, it’s independent from Oracle, and the presentations are much more “user to user”, with some consulting firms’ presentations mixed in.
I’m not sure how it will shake out between Gartner and The CDI-MDM Institute, but I know that I really enjoyed the conference that Aaron Zorne and SourceMedia put on this year. You can always find little things that need improving at any conference, but overall, the presentations were spot on, the logistics were fine, and the mood of the conference was very upbeat.
I particularly enjoyed:
There was a tie for my favorite presentation of the entire conference between:
We weren’t able to stay for the post-conference workshops, as we had to catch a train back to Boston. But overall, another fantastic conference from The CDI-MDM Institute and SourceMedia.
CDI-MDM Summit
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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 last CDI-MDM Summits in the U.S., so it will be kind of nice to be attending this conference without having to speak at it.
There’s a lot going on in the CDI-MDM space right now, and I’m really looking forward to seeing a lot of friends, former colleagues and industry luminaries, all in one place at the same time. There’s still a feeling of cameraderie at this event that I really like, and people are very willing to share their experiences and best practices with one another.
It’s a bit of bad scheduling that it’s being held at almost the same time as the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. I’ve spoken at OpenWorld the last several years too. I enjoy it as well, but it’s gotten so BIG. Oracle practically takes over the whole city of San Francisco for the duration of the OpenWorld conference.
The New York CDI-MDM Summit conference last year was a lot of fun. We’re really looking forward to it this year. And one reason is that I’m sure it will give us a lot to write about in this blog in the coming weeks.
The Hub Solution Designs team will take careful notes during the conference and will share them here. And perhaps I can coax Tim O’Sullivan into writing his first blog posting as well!
