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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,...
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Silver Creek Systems
Another strong session at Oracle OpenWorld this afternoon. Alison Schofield, the Product Strategy Director at Oracle for PIM Data Hub, lead off the session by talkking about the business challenges in...
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MDM Track at the OAUG Conference
The Oracle Applications Users Group conference, COLLABORATE 10, is being held April 18-22, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. But the Master Data Management (MDM) track of COLLABORATE 10 needs YOUR help! This...
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Oracle OpenWorld Presentation
I had a great time at the Oracle OpenWorld conference this year. Oracle did a great job organizing the MDM track. There were a lot of great presentations, and a good balance of speakers between Oracle...
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Hidden Costs of Duplicate Customer Data
A client asked me last week about what rate of duplicate data was “normal” in customer master data. My initial answer was that, among companies that don’t have any formal master data management, data...
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2009 Year in Review
As we’re about to enter 2010, it’s a good time to reflect on what happened in 2009 and what it all means. “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times…” So Dickens begins “A Tale of Two...
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Data Profiling For All The Right Reasons, Part 1
The Hub Designs Blog welcomes another guest post by Rob DuMoulin, an information architect with more than 26 years of IT experience, specializing in master data management, database administration and...
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Data Profiling For All The Right Reasons, Part 2
The Hub Designs Blog welcomes Part 2 of this series by Rob DuMoulin, an information architect with more than 26 years of IT experience, specializing in master data management, database administration...
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Data Profiling For All The Right Reasons, Part 3
The Hub Designs Blog welcomes Part 3 of this series by Rob DuMoulin, an information architect with more than 26 years of IT experience, specializing in master data management, database administration...
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Data Profiling For All The Right Reasons, Part 4
The Hub Designs Blog welcomes Part 4 of this series by Rob DuMoulin, an information architect with more than 26 years of IT experience, specializing in master data management, database administration...
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Siperian Acquired By Informatica
Siperian, one of the last best-of-breed providers of master data management (MDM) technology, is being acquired by Informatica. The two firms were already working together closely, having an alliance...
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Initiate Systems Acquired By IBM
Today, IBM announced that it is acquiring Initiate Systems. This was widely rumored last week, but the announcement of Informatica’s acquisition of Siperian took my mind off this temporarily. On the...
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Data Profiling For All The Right Reasons, Part 5
The Hub Designs Blog welcomes the final installment of this great series by Rob DuMoulin, an information architect with more than 26 years of IT experience, specializing in master data management,...
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Is It Taxonomy Season Already?
Like death and taxes, every Master Data Management (MDM) project goes through a taxonomy definition exercise. During this time, Data Architects realize whether their payment of time thus far will...
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AMB Releases Community Edition
Hub Designs has been a partner of AMB, a provider of information governance, quality and discovery software, since November 2008. Now AMB is launching an open source version of its Information...
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Answering Questions from LinkedIn
I got a good question via LinkedIn the other day, so I thought I’d answer it here: Dear Dan, I am a database architect but I am new to MDM and data governance, and I’m very interested in this area. Can...
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Informatica Analyst Briefing
Arvind Parthasarathi, Ken Hoang and Ravi Shankar from Informatica were kind enough recently to give me a detailed briefing on Informatica’s master data management (MDM) strategy after its acquisition...
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Evolving from Product MDM to Multidomain MDM
I’m attending the Gartner MDM Summit in Las Vegas, and this morning I caught a great session by Andrew White on the evolution from master data management (MDM) of product data to “multidomain MDM”....
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Kalido MDM and AB InBev
The Gartner MDM Summit in Las Vegas wraps up today, and this morning I caught a session by Kalido’s President and CEO Bill Hewitt and Jonathan Starkey, the Director of Business Intelligence at AB InBev...
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Our Booth at the Gartner MDM Summit
Hub Designs was a Silver sponsor at the Gartner MDM Summit 2010. Here’s the new, 3-minute video we produced to describe what Hub Designs does as an consulting firm focused specifically on MDM: Great...
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Oracle’s MDM Strategy and Roadmap
At the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) COLLABORATE 2010 conference this week, I attended a session by Pascal Laik, Oracle’s VP of Master Data Management Strategy. He started out by talking about...
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When Data Governance Turns Bureaucratic
How Data Governance Police Can Constrain the Value of Your Multidomain Master Data Management Initiative (this appeared as a guest post on Informatica’s blog on Friday, April 30 2010) I published a...
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Recent eLearning Curve Webinar
Hub Designs recently hosted a 30 minute webinar on “Best Practices in MDM and Data Governance with Dan Power”, in concert with our friends at eLearning Curve and Information Management magazine. To...
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Why I Enjoy MDM So Much
I was reading a very good article on a blog called Presentation Zen called The Importance of Starting from Why. The article describes a TED talk by a leadership expert and author named Simon Sinek. In...
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Building MDM-Powered Solutions with Initiate Composer
Earlier this week, I saw a demo of Initiate’s new Composer product, and was impressed. Composer, announced in March and scheduled for release in June, will be available to all existing Initiate...
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Modeling the MDM Blueprint – Part 4
In Part 2 and Part 3 of this series, we discussed the Common Information and Canonical Models. Because MDM is a business project, we need to establish of a common set of models that can be referenced...
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Modeling the MDM Blueprint – Part 5
In this series, we’ve discussed developing the MDM blueprint by creating the Common Information (Part 2), Canonical (Part 3), and Operating (Part 4) models in our work streams. We’ve introduced the...
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Data Profiling For All The Right Reasons, Part 1
The Hub Designs Blog welcomes a guest post by Rob DuMoulin, an information architect with more than 26 years of IT experience, specializing in master data management, database administration and...
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Data Profiling For All The Right Reasons, Part 2
The Hub Designs Blog welcomes Part 2 of this series by Rob DuMoulin, an information architect with more than 26 years of IT experience, specializing in master data management, database administration...
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Data Profiling For All The Right Reasons, Part 3
The Hub Designs Blog welcomes Part 3 of this series by Rob DuMoulin, an information architect with more than 26 years of IT experience, specializing in master data management, database administration...
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Data Profiling For All The Right Reasons, Part 4
The Hub Designs Blog welcomes Part 4 of this series by Rob DuMoulin, an information architect with more than 26 years of IT experience, specializing in master data management, database administration...
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Data Profiling For All The Right Reasons, Part 5
The Hub Designs Blog welcomes the final installment of this great series by Rob DuMoulin, an information architect with more than 26 years of IT experience, specializing in master data management,...
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Seven Steps to Data Quality, by Kuppusamy Bhaskar
A great article on data quality by our friend Kuppusamy Bhaskar
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