by Angela Guess
Jim Ericson recently reported in Information Management, “The bigger the IT plan, the more fragile it can seem when times are uncertain. So with domestic politics in the air, Europe on the edge and geopolitics raging, it’s a little comforting to be gathering evidence that the master data management projects we often saw derailed in 2008 are holding steady right now. This doesn’t lessen the future for newer topics grabbing headlines in big data analytics, cloud and enterprise mobility. Those are all good things, but ask a CIO where a lot of money and time is invested right at this moment and one of those places is MDM.”
He continues, “It wasn’t this way a few years ago when the first financial meltdown put capital expenditures on the skids, which makes the rebound doubly nice. There was some hard evidence for the value of MDM in projections for this year from Gartner and others who saw a bullish year. I’ll admit my own evidence is mostly anecdotal, from the CIOs I am talking to for our 25 Top Information Manager release later this month, from the conferences I go to and from Aaron Zornes, who runs a slate of events globally and is chairing a couple of annual MDM & Data Governance events with us this month in San Francisco and Toronto. Another event in New York follows in Ocober. What’s really rewarding at these events is that governance is a badge more proudly than fearfully worn in enterprises and that companies are following through on their bets.”
