digg this | del.icio.us | Reddit | Stumble It! Many companies are still deploying Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), with proprietary adapters and integration servers.  However, for a Master Data Management (MDM) solution, we recommend a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach for integration between the hub and source systems using web services. A typical [...]...

digg this | del.icio.us | Reddit | Stumble It! I'm often asked how many data stewards a company needs. A rule of thumb I've used for quite a while is "one data steward per $1 billion in annual revenue", but of course that can't be a hard and fast rule. Depending on the [...]...

digg this | del.icio.us | Reddit | Stumble It! In a recent article, we covered the importance of data integration to Master Data Management (MDM). This article elaborates on that in the context of today's software market, and talks about how the visionary data integration vendors are scrambling to acquire and offer [...]...

digg this | del.icio.us | Reddit | Stumble It! I wrote an article appearing today on the Identity Resolution Daily blog. Here's a quick excerpt: In a recent post, I wrote about the importance of data integration to Master Data Management (MDM). Today, I'd like to dig into the importance of identity resolution. [...]...

digg this | del.icio.us | Reddit | Stumble It! Here's our latest "MDM Insights" column in the online edition of DM Review. The technology industry is the mother lode of acronyms, and in the field of master data management (MDM), there are more than a few. We have the subsets of MDM [...]...