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Buying or building your Master Data Management Solution?
Recently I attended a seminar from the Dutch SAP Usergroup. My intention was to learn about their struggles around data management. This special usergroup is set up for the data management experts in the Netherlands relating to SAP and the…
Why Big Data is not going to work for all of us..
The talk of the day is of course big data. Everybody wants a piece and believes it will make their business successful. Every day I see software vendors and salespeople push the business towards the use of Big Data. I completely agree and I…
The Customer is King and Data the constitution
Customer is King well that is nothing new right. It is something that should have been this way for a long time. However customers have more power now than ever before. Why is that? First off all we talk about an open market. The internet…
Product Information Management (PIM) Solutions; Forrester Wave
Master Data Management is a world of many different angles. I wrote about his in many earlier articles. The basics are often customer, vendor and products. If you keep your helicopter view in mind then I can be this simple. However let us…
Master Data Management of HR
If you ask me to consider the most valuable assets of each company then I would say that there are two items that come straight in mind. First off all are the people within the company. They drive the company and ensure existence and second…
Vendor Data Management 3.0
When we talk about master data management usually we define customer data and material data as most important and fact is that customers are the ones who drive your business and give you the right to exist. The product data or material data…
Master Data Management Methods
In the world of master data management there isn’t one version of the truth. There are many different aspects that you have to evaluate in order to find master data management methods that fits your purpose. Also is your current state of…
The five frustrations about faulty Customer data for Sales People
When you viewed my profile on LinkedIn you will see that I am in sales for a couple of years now. Sales is in my opinion an art combined with science. I will not go any further into this subject but the part of science is interesting. The…
Money making or Money breaking?
Every company is in the business for money making. Is it that simple, well it is. Without funding or money making there is no existence possible on the long term. I agree that there are a lot of business around the globe that say that they…
The data foundation of your companies “house”
In the last months I have been keen on writing a lot of blog posts about Master Data and Master Data Management. The more you read them, the more you understand that I value Master Data Management as a real art and that I never…