Identity Resolution Daily Links 2008-9-15
By the Infoglide Team
ITBusinessEdge: Master Data Management: Whaddya Mean It’s Not About the Data?
“Tony Fisher had some surprising things to say about master data management during my recent interview with him. Fisher is the president and CEO of DataFlux, which sells an MDM solution. He was a bit flummoxed about a CIO.com article that said CIOs see MDM as a chance to fix past data management sins, and he wanted to talk about that.”
“But data federation is refusing to die as an alternative to EDW–and is taking on new importance in organizations’ data management strategies. Data federation is an umbrella term for a wide range of operational BI topologies that provide decentralized, on-demand alternatives to the centralized, batch-oriented architectures characteristic of traditional EDW environments.”
Andy on Enterprise Software: MDM Education - Big and Easy
“There is an encouraging increase in MDM education, reflecting the growing interest in the subject. As well as Aaron Zornes’ pioneering work at the MDM Institute, we had a dedicated TDWI MDM conference in Savannah earlier in 2008. Now TDWI is running a dedicated MDM track on its next week-long conference, in New Orleans in early November.”
