Month: March 2014

Agile MDM. Using IT.

Henrik Gabs Liliendahl1 Comment

MDM (Master Data Management) projects may have a bad name as large IT projects using huge amount of resources, taken a lot of time and ending up with producing very little measurable results.

This phenomenon isn’t new at all in the IT world. There are often two answers to that challenge:

  1. Don’t treat it as an IT project. It’s all about people and culture.
  2. Do it the agile way using IT.

Lean Evolutionary MDMAfter having a lot of fun with option one you will sooner or later realize that the master data pain points still exists and then come to option two.

I have earlier written some agile posts about Lean MDM and Eating the MDM Elephant and the relevance of having MDM technology that supports the agile way has in my eyes only become more and more apparent since then.

What are your experiences? Who is doing agile MDM – using IT? Is it good?

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Data is the new petroleum

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oil”Data is the new oil” is a well-known term today used to emphasize on the fact that data and your ability to exploit data can make you rich.

The rise of big data has put some more fire to this burning issue indeed with the variant saying “Big data is the new oil”.

Now, as oil is many things, data is many things too. As few of us actually use crude oil, also called petroleum, few of us don’t use raw data to get rich. We use information distilled from raw data for specific purposes. One example is examined in the post Mashing Up Big Reference Data and Internal Master Data.

This brings me to that we have the question of quality of oil just as we have the question of the quality of data as explained nicely by Ken O’Connor in the post Data is the new oil – what grade is yours?

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