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by Christine Denney Do you love that question or loathe it? I have to admit that I have fallen into the latter category. I suppose that’s because to see yourself somewhere in five years, you have to know where you see yourself now. Did I understand my “now”? Well, in a word…no. Even after...
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by Christine Denney Two colliding forces served as inspiration for this month’s blog: #1. the recent US Thanksgiving holiday, and, #2. the fact that this year seems to have flown by at an alarming pace! As the end of 2012 comes closer and closer, I want to take a moment to think about why...
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by Christine Denney With all the hype around new technologies, like Hadoop, it feels like the excitement of Master Data Management is disappearing like candy on Halloween. Could it be that MDM is really yesterday’s news? Something that was a passing fad and is no longer relevant? Hardly. The need for the discipline of...
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by Christine Denney Here we are at the final installment in the series – essential number eight. I hope that you have gained as much insight from reading the series as I have from writing it. While the earlier essentials focused on analysis and design, essential number eight pulls everything into a plan for...
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By Christine Denney Welcome to the third installment of the “Figure 8” series! In last month’s post, we reviewed essentials 2-4 and discussed guidance for conducting the current state assessment and inventory. With essentials 5-7, we move past the analysis (understanding the “what”) and into building the architecture (the “how”). You might be wondering why self stick...
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by Christine Denney Welcome to the second installment of the “Figure 8” series! Yes, I know it has been a little while since we looked at essential #1. In this blog, we look at essentials 2-4. These build on the vision, or goal, which was discussed in the first essential. Note that working through these essentials...
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by Christine Denney After I finished presenting The Figure 8: Essentials for Master Data Management at Enterprise Data World, I had a whole new set of questions and thoughts arise around getting started with MDM or expanding an existing MDM base. Before diving into the new material, I wanted to look back on how...
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By Christine Denney It’s no secret that I am pro-MDM (Not the “throw everything in a hub” type of MDM, but the discipline of identifying and managing the “who, what, and where” entities that are important to the Enterprise). However, it may not be well-known that I am also pro-Semantic Web. I still see just...
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By Christine Denney One of my favorite songs from a musical has the line ”525,600 minutes; How do you measure, measure a year?” And how many songs have been written about the “measure of a man”? These are all catchy tunes, but after a recent remodeling experience, I was starting to question the “measure of a measure”. It...
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By Christine Denney I unapologetically admit to being a die-hard data geek, which makes my next statements a bit unnerving (downright disturbing, in fact). I am being haunted by statements made during a recent conference keynote – even to the point where they have taken over my thought processes. I suppose that should be a...
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