A recent post on Information Management makes the point that master data management should not be run as an IT project. From an IT perspective, master data management is most typically treated as a data integration problem. The focus is often on how master data can be consolidated and synchronised across various operatioanl systems. In…
Last week, Henrik Liliendahl responded to questions posed to him by Jan van Til. Jan asked: Wouldn’t the world be far better of without the concept of master data? What problems are solved by it? What problems are introduced by it? The balance? So … why do we keep toiling with master data?” Henrik’s response…
Imagine that you have had nothing to drink for a day or two. Yo are offered a choice – three seemingly identical glasses of water. Two glasses do, indeed, hold clean, refreshing water. The third has been contaminated with a tasteless, odourless poison,. It may not kill you, but it will do lasting damage. Would…
The Information Difference has released its 2016 MDM Landscape review. While you are looking at that you may be interested in the related 2016 Data Quality landscape So what were the results: Unsurprisingly, big vendors dominate the market strength chart showing that IT executives continue to prefer lower perceived integration risk over better perceived capability.…
At last month’s Insurance Summit, I gave a presentation entitled Making the Shift from Product to Customer centric – with a particular focus on the Insurance industry. This is a very topical subject right now… The insurance industry is facing a number of challenges – an increasingly competitive market including the entrance of new players,…
The inaugural Insurance Industry Summit will kick off in Johannesburg in just over a month. With streams covering Distribution, Risk and Digital Mobility data is one of the key themes. In South Africa , our insurance industry clients are struggling with architecture renewal programs. The shift from product to customer-centric architectures is necessary not just…
St Paul’s epiphany on the road to Damascus was a defining moment in the history of the early Christian church. This was the moment when Paul, the devout Pharisee and oppressor of Christianity was converted to become the early church’s biggest evangelist. A recent planning session with a client, while not comparable in terms of…
