I had a laptop “near death experience” over the past few days.  It actually started on Saturday (which was Halloween).  So I guess that makes this a “Halloween Hard Drive Horror Show”. First, my Sony Vaio, which I’ve had for two years, got a little...

At the Gartner MDM Summit conference three weeks ago in Los Angeles, I sat down with Anurag Wadehra and Ravi Shankar from Siperian. I usually go to Siperian’s user conference, which was held last week in Princeton, NJ. I couldn’t make it this time...

The Oracle Applications Users Group conference, COLLABORATE 10, is being held April 18-22, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. But the Master Data Management (MDM) track of COLLABORATE 10 needs YOUR help! This is your final invitation to share your MDM and...

Another strong session at Oracle OpenWorld this afternoon. Alison Schofield, the Product Strategy Director at Oracle for PIM Data Hub, lead off the session by talkking about the business challenges in improving the data quality of product information,...

This afternoon at Oracle OpenWorld, I attended a great session led by Darrin Pohlman, Enterprise Architect at LexisNexis and MK Rizwan from Infosys. They talked about the enterprise transformation program at LexisNexis, and the strategic use of...