Archive for June, 2011

Questions to Take You from MDM Strategy to Vision

How do you move from strategy to vision? Lise explores the IT-business divide and offers a series of questions for each side to ask before moving forward.

5 Ways MDM Makes Insurers Smarter

How can master data management make insurers smarter? Jennifer McGinn looks back at her experience with numerous clients and finds five key benefits.

IBM Champion Cüneyt Göksu on DB2 and Databases

How have databases evolved over the past 20 years? How has DB2 changed to keep up? We interview IBM Champion Cüneyt Göksu for those answers, plus a preview of the IDUG EMEA conference in November.

Four Value Drivers for Master Data Management

Most of the time, I describe an organization’s need for master data management in terms of providing the coveted ‘single view’ across enterprise applications and databases. While technically accurate, perhaps that’s not sufficient to communicate the potential value that companies can capture when different teams start seeing the world from the same perspective. So, in [...]

Series: MDM Vision & Value

Lise Neely’s new series will explore building an MDM vision and articulating the potential value to your stakeholders. How do you create a business case and quantify its benefits? How should your MDM vision support the organization’s overall strategy?

Transforming Healthcare with Truly Connected Medicine

Michelle previews an upcoming webcast where Dr. Rasu Shrestha, VP of Medical Information Technology at UPMC, will share how UPMC is transforming healthcare into connected medicine.

Taking Data Integration to the Next Level

Guest blogger David Loshin discusses how the mixed-bag world of “enterprise application infrastructure” has raised expectations but also lead to new challenges. How did we get here? How do we manage the exploding volumes of data? How can replication, change data capture and data federation help?

Finding Gold in Data: Banks’ 5 Biggest Challenges

Banks must evolve to keep up with competitors from new sectors. Many banks are finding great opportunity in their data. Andy Ousterhout describes the five biggest challenges facing consumer banks and discusses the potential opportunity in their data.

IBM at 100: The Wild Duck Soaring to New Heights

On the occasion of IBM’s 100 birthday, Jarrett reviews the highlights from the first 100 years – and looks forward to what’s next.

The Reach of MDM in Telecommunications

How has MDM affected the telecommunications industry? Stephan Zoder offers several use cases and discusses how MDM can “fit” into a company’s legacy landscape as a concept, application and set of processes.