Using Your Supply Chain to Gain a Competitive Edge
Complexity and variability are facts of life for manufacturers. Think of all the different types of goods that are manufactured around the world, from...
Context Is Key to Master Data Management
Traditional Master Data Management (MDM) and governance initiatives segment data into readily defined domains, or buckets, around concepts such as customer, product, employee, or...
How Intelligent Machines Are Driving Our Future
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of U.S. occupations classified as “routine” (manufacturing, transportation, maintenance) has dropped over the past 40 years...
Break MDM Silos With a Unified Multi-domain MDM Approach
Modern day business users need consistent and accurate information to make operational, tactical, and strategic decisions. Enriched, accurate, and real-time information is the most...
Are You Master of Your Data Domain?
Your organization’s master data on products, customers, assets, employees, locations, and suppliers is a key asset of your company. Central to utilizing best practices...
Product and Customer MDM Solutions Should Solve Problems
Thanksgiving is just a couple of weeks away, so it's come time for us to make our list of things for which we are...
Support Customer Experience by Managing Customer Loyalty
When we were kids, we headed each October to the local farms to find the perfect pumpkin for Halloween. The biggest constraint was the...
Integration Needs to Be the Heart of a Business
Integration is typically seen as a backend platform. Because integration is the driving force of an enterprise and its systems, IT and the business...
Mobile: Force Number Two Vies for First Place
Last week, a network TV drama interjected comedy with what appeared to be a fanciful innovation: The face and voice of a telecommuter wandered...
Gartner’s Internet of Everything
Where will our digital world take us by 2020? Gartner posed this popular question in its opening keynotes at multiple Symposia/ITxpos that I've had...