THE DATA DOWNLOAD

Topics: Data Governance, Program Management, Blog, Master Data Management

A growing number of organizations are implementing master data management and data governance initiatives, but many lack the expertise to best set themselves up for success. That is fueling the growing market for MDM and data governance consultancies.

To help organizations in making the selection of an MDM partner, the MDM Institute compiled its list of the top MDM and data governance consultancies. Separate lists were prepared for the top consultancies in North America, in Europe, in Asia, and globally.

Topics: Master Data Management

Thank you to Bryson Dunn for presenting on the Evolution of Operational MDM! In case you missed the live presentation, you can view the replay here, and read on for the webinar Q&A:

Topics: Data Governance, Data Quality, Master Data Management, Financial Services

The banking and financial industries face significant challenges and added regulation in the year ahead. While the number and degree of these challenges will likely shift throughout 2018, the below list covers the most pressing and how your organization can leverage data management solutions to ensure preparedness.

Topics: Data Governance, Data Virtualization, Blog, Master Data Management, Enterprise Data

By:  David Crolene, Vice President, Delivery

The verdict is in and Data Virtualization (DV) is here to stay.  This is driven by many factors such as the maturation of vendor technologies (e.g., heterogeneous join optimization, row level security, and high availability), increases in computing power, and a decrease in time end users are willing to wait for access to data. 

Topics: Master Data Management

Q: How instrumental was the ability to get the organization to a point where business processes became repeatable, and led to a more efficient data governance model where naming standards and taxonomy conversations made progress?

Topics: Data Security, Agile, Big Data, Data Quality, Data Integration, Program Management, Blog, Cloud, Master Data Management

Business Intelligence Industry: 10 Considerations for 2014

By:  Steve Dine and David Crolene

Each year, we reflect upon the business intelligence industry and enterprise information management (EIM) industry and provide a review of the noteworthy trends that we encounter in the field.  Our review emanates from five sources: our customers, industry conferences, articles, social media, and software vendors. This year has proved to be an interesting one on many fronts.  Here is our business intelligence  industry review and observations for 2013 and predicted trends for the remainder of 2014.

Topics: Data Quality, Blog, Master Data Management

Are businesses undervaluing the impact of Master Data Management (MDM) initiatives? If they are not looking at the many, often unexpected, ways that data management can impact the top and bottom line, they might very well be doing so.

It is firsthand knowledge that data management initiatives are seldom viewed as an opportunity to create significant value within an organization. You may be wondering how to entice your stakeholders with an MDM project when the ROI may seem intangible. Although it may seem elusive, the business case below outlines how one company realized a return of over $75M on a $25M investment.