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Loqate: Accuracy and Intelligence from Address Data

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Jan 12, 2012, 12:53 am
The Hub Designs MDM Think Tank recently received a briefing from Martin Turvey, CEO of Loqate. by Julie Hunt It’s always great to get a briefing from a very knowledgeable and flexible founder of a young company: tapping into original vision that has been tempered by the experience of customer im...
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Liaison Briefs the Hub Designs MDM Think Tank

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Dec 21, 2011, 12:28 am
Jonathan Razza, who is a Director of Data Management Solutions at Liaison Technologies, sat down with the Hub Designs Think Tank in mid-October for an analyst briefing on Liaison’s Cloud MDM Services. Liaison provides a cloud-based platform, which is a horizontally marketed solution with a strong...
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The Importance of Context and Explicit Values (Part 3), by Rob DuMoulin

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Dec 11, 2011, 6:02 pm
Here’s the final segment of Rob DuMoulin’s series on the dangers of implicit knowledge and the importance of context. In the first and second segments of this series, we discussed situations where implicit values are woven into business processes or IT systems unknowingly or on purpose. The...
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Data Governance Roundtable

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Nov 30, 2011, 2:33 pm
Late breaking news: Dan Power from Hub Designs will be appearing in a “Data Governance Roundtable” tomorrow (Thursday, December 1st at 11:00 am EST / 10:00 am CST / 8:00 am PST). The event is sponsored by Trillium Software. Here are the invitation details: Is your data governance program deli...
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The Importance of Context and Explicit Values (Part 2), by Rob DuMoulin

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Nov 21, 2011, 10:47 am
In the next segment of Rob DuMoulin’s three part series, he continues to discuss the dangers of implicit knowledge and the importance of context. The first segment of this series defined implicit values as ones that require additional context in order to infer an unambiguous meaning from the va...
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The Importance of Context and Explicit Values (Part 1), by Rob DuMoulin

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Nov 14, 2011, 10:56 am
“I shot a cat wearing green pajamas.” Before you report me for animal cruelty, did you paint a mental image of me or the cat in pajamas? How do you know I wasn’t referring to the phrase used in the 1920’s to describe a person at the top of their game, Cat’s Pajamas? Would your opinion of...
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MDM's Blind Spot: Social Networks by Peter Perera

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Oct 25, 2011, 12:45 pm
The convergence of Master Data Management (MDM) and social networking is inevitable. Not because we need to jump on the social networking bandwagon to keep MDM interesting and relevant. But because companies like Google (with Google+) and data.com (formerly Jigsaw and now SalesForce.com) have alre...
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Final Deadline for the MDM Track at COLLABORATE 2012

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Oct 17, 2011, 2:36 pm
The final deadline for the COLLABORATE 2012 conference Call for Papers is TODAY - Monday, October 17. The Master Data Management Track of this conference will be the best we’ve ever had. There’s been a separate MDM track for five years, since I joined the Education Committee of the Oracle Ap...
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Where Data Governance Stops and Master Data Management Starts

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Oct 13, 2011, 6:23 am
I have to admit, the title is a slight misnomer. Data Governance (DG) never actually stops, but the lines of responsibility vary greatly based on the flavor and depth of Governance in an organization. From the other direction, MDM itself is an exercise in data governance, so can we extrapolate tha...
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Oracle OpenWorld 2011: Oracle Hyperion DRM Customer Panel

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Oct 5, 2011, 12:53 pm
... time process that replaces over 200,000 lines of rules in the old territory assignment engine. The standardization and enrichment is based on Dun & Bradstreet data and Trillium data quality tools. Governance at VMware is business-driven, sitting under Field Operations and Marketing. Funding ...
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Oracle OpenWorld 2011: Oracle's MDM Vision, Strategy, and Roadmap

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Oct 3, 2011, 7:01 pm
... VMware is using Data Relationship Management. Cummins is here to talk about ... of Data and Content at Cummins Inc., presented a case study ... . The Enterprise Information Management in Cummins’ future state features shared ERP ... embedded upstream rather than downstream Cummins’ fu...
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MDM: Why Good Business Practice Insight is Hard to Find

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Sep 27, 2011, 6:09 pm
Another article that’s right on the money by Mark Allen, the co-author of Master Data Management in Practice – Achieving True Customer MDM. “MDM should be a business driven program” is the mantra we hear time and time again. And while that is the right prevailing wisdom, doesn’t it seem t...
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Connecting Data Governance to Business Outcomes That Matter

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Sep 25, 2011, 10:05 pm
Here’s another great and timely article by Julie Hunt, a software industry strategist and analyst. Process-centric initiatives are often optimal approaches for the things that companies want to accomplish. Business processes make it possible to directly connect work to business outcomes that l...
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The MDM Track at COLLABORATE 2012

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Sep 22, 2011, 11:46 am
The deadline for the Call for Papers for the 2012 COLLABORATE conference is coming up fast – Friday, October 14. The Master Data Management Track of this conference will be the best we’ve ever had. There’s been a separate MDM track for five years, since I joined the Education Committee of ...
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Getting Data Governance Up and Running

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Sep 18, 2011, 8:29 pm
This is the latest article in an ongoing series on Data Governance sponsored by SAP. Recapping our series so far: Why Govern Master Data? Getting Started with Data Governance, Part 1 Getting Started with Data Governance, Part 2 Organizing Data Governance for Success Where Will Data Governance Liv...
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Hub Designs Celebrates Fourth Anniversary

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Sep 14, 2011, 2:12 pm
Four years ago today, Hub Solution Designs, Inc. was incorporated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as “a management consulting firm which helps companies to improve performance through strategy development, application of best practices, change management, technology implementation and other o...
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Call for Papers for MDM Track at COLLABORATE 2012

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Sep 12, 2011, 11:31 am
by Dan Power I’m still a volunteer on the Education Committee of the Oracle Application Users Group, which is a robust users group that is completely independent of Oracle Corporation. I’ve been involved in the group as a whole for over 15 years now, and have been on the Education Committee for...
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The IT Reformation and the Splinternet (Part 3), by Frank Johnson

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Sep 6, 2011, 5:00 am
The potential impact of the IT Reformation and the Splinternet on data governance in the enterprise Data governance advocates could likely tack and adjust successfully to the IT Reformation . With business units taking on the responsibility of acquiring their own technology solutions, users might b...
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The IT Reformation and the Splinternet (Part 2), by Frank Johnson

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Sep 5, 2011, 5:00 am
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”: The Impact on Data Governance. Either of the dynamics mentioned in yesterday’s article (the The IT Reformation or the Splinternet) by themselves would pose enough challenges to sound data governance. Together, they make the challenges worse by pu...
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The IT Reformation and the Splinternet (Part 1), by Frank Johnson

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Sep 2, 2011, 5:00 am
Information technologies are being carved into fiefdoms just when users need them to hang together. What will this mean for data governance? Introduction The practice of data governance is in a precarious position as a result of two paradoxical dynamics at work in business technology. The firs...
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Gaming Master Data Management, by Peter Perera

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Sep 1, 2011, 5:00 am
Want to improve the quality of business data while increasing enterprise system adoption? Turn MDM into a game. In recent months, the “gamification” of business applications has become a hot topic. Gamification seeks to incorporate game mechanics into software applications for, say, CRM and E...
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The System of Record in MDM, by Dalton Cervo

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Aug 31, 2011, 5:00 am
Today’s guest article is by Dalton Cervo, the co-author of a great new book titled Master Data Management in Practice – Achieving True Customer MDM. I’ve been asked this question many times: why is implementing an MDM solution so difficult? The short answer is MDM includes technical and busin...
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Information, Intelligence and Process by Julie Hunt

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Aug 30, 2011, 5:00 am
Here’s a great article by Julie Hunt, an accomplished software industry analyst. When we first ran it, we broke it up into four installments. We’re running it again as one continuous article (which is how Julie intended it to be read). Combining Forces to Better Answer Business Needs Data g...
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Golden Relations and Platinum Relations, by Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Aug 29, 2011, 5:00 am
“Golden copy” is a term widely used in master data management (MDM), as we often see the master data hub as a golden copy of the data in the company’s operational databases. The golden records in the hub are formed from the master data records typically describing the customers, suppliers, p...
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Organizing Data Governance for Success

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Aug 26, 2011, 5:00 am
This series on Data Governance is sponsored by SAP. Previous articles have included Why Govern Master Data?, Getting Started with Data Governance, Part 1 and Getting Started with Data Governance, Part 2. A Sample Organizational Model A three level model like this can work well at a lot of comp...
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Getting Started with Data Governance, Part 2

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Aug 25, 2011, 5:00 am
This is the third article in an ongoing series on Data Governance sponsored by SAP. Here are Part One and Part Two of the series. Why is this stuff so hard? Companies aren’t used to governing data across the entire enterprise. It goes against their well honed instincts, to break things up into ...
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Getting Started with Data Governance, Part 1

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Aug 24, 2011, 5:00 am
This is the second article in an ongoing series on Data Governance sponsored by SAP. You can find the first article in the series here. Using a Data Governance Maturity Model Something that Hub Designs recommends early in a new Data Governance program is using a Data Governance Maturity Model to...
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Why Govern Master Data?

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Aug 23, 2011, 5:00 am
While I’m on vacation for the next two weeks, Hub Designs Magazine will be republishing some of our most popular articles and series. This article, from an ongoing series on Data Governance sponsored by SAP, was first published on March 20th. The most important thing about data governance is to ...
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Are You Taking Charge of Your Information? by Ramon Sistermans

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Aug 22, 2011, 5:00 am
Research analysts like Gartner and thought leaders all around the world agree that information should be reliable, as it underpins many operational and strategic business decisions. Along this line, information governance is an emerging business strategy attempting to regain competitive advantage ...
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Data Management: Reaching into the Cloud, by Julie Hunt

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Aug 17, 2011, 11:34 am
In a new form of “shadow IT”, Line-of-Business (LOB) groups have been turning to cloud-based services to quickly set up technology solutions that support their business needs and objectives. IT teams are already carrying heavy workloads with ever-shrinking staffing levels, and frequently don�...
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Oracle Customer MDM Webinar on August 17th

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Aug 4, 2011, 4:15 pm
Once again, Hub Designs is joining with Oracle in a webinar, this time on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 11:00 am Pacific (2:00 pm Eastern). The topic will be how to “Drive Customer Loyalty with Effective Master Data Management”. It costs a lot less money to hold onto existing customers than to...
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Oracle Product MDM Webinar on August 11th

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Aug 3, 2011, 4:22 pm
Hub Designs is pleased to be joining with Oracle in a new webinar on Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 9:30 am Pacific (12:30 pm Eastern). The topic will be how to “Ensure World Class Data For World Class Supply Chain Management”. When you don’t have world class data, your company suffers from in...
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MDM Multi-Domain Planning And Challenges, by Mark Allen

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Jul 20, 2011, 5:24 pm
Our latest article is by Mark Allen, the co-author of a Master Data Management in Practice – Achieving True Customer MDM. In the May 30th, 2011 edition of Hub Designs Magazine, you may recall the article The System of Record in MDM by Dalton Cervo (who is also the co-author of our new book Maste...
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Organizing Data Governance for Success

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Jun 29, 2011, 11:18 pm
This series on Data Governance is sponsored by SAP. Previous articles have included Why Govern Master Data?, Getting Started with Data Governance, Part 1 and Getting Started with Data Governance, Part 2. A Sample Organizational Model A three level model like this can work well at a lot of compa...
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Orchestra Networks Announces Cloud-Based MDM Solution

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Jun 27, 2011, 5:00 am
Orchestra Networks briefed Hub Designs Magazine late last week on its new cloud-based MDM solution, which it is branding as smartdatagovernance.com. Christophe Barriolade, CEO of Orchestra Networks and John Petrie, Vice President of Sales took us through the cloud-based subscription service, which ...
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The IT Reformation and the Splinternet (Part 3), by Frank Johnson

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Jun 21, 2011, 10:36 pm
The potential impact of the IT Reformation and the Splinternet on data governance in the enterprise Data governance advocates could likely tack and adjust successfully to the IT Reformation . With business units taking on the responsibility of acquiring their own technology solutions, users might b...
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The IT Reformation and the Splinternet (Part 2), by Frank Johnson

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Jun 20, 2011, 11:10 pm
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”: The Impact on Data Governance. Either of the dynamics mentioned in yesterday’s article (the The IT Reformation or the Splinternet) by themselves would pose enough challenges to sound data governance. Together, they make the challenges worse by pu...
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The IT Reformation and the Splinternet (Part 1), by Frank Johnson

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Jun 20, 2011, 12:04 am
Information technologies are being carved into fiefdoms just when users need them to hang together. What will this mean for data governance? Introduction The practice of data governance is in a precarious position as a result of two paradoxical dynamics at work in business technology. The firs...
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IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Jun 16, 2011, 12:24 pm
Jeff Huth, who handles Product Management for the Identity Insight Portfolio in IBM’s Software Group, sat down with the Hub Designs Think Tank in early April for an analyst briefing on IBM’s InfoSphere Identity Insight product. Identity Insight, as a product, is managed as part of IBM’s MDM po...
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Recapping the 2011 Gartner MDM Summit

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Jun 9, 2011, 9:45 pm
This is the fourth article in an ongoing series sponsored by SAP. Was it better this year? I’d have to answer a resounding “Yes” to that question. Hub Designs has sponsored the Gartner MDM Summit for three years now (since 2009, its second year), and we noticed a real uptick in the number ...
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Gaming Master Data Management, by Peter Perera

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Jun 4, 2011, 2:49 pm
Want to improve the quality of business data while increasing enterprise system adoption? Turn MDM into a game. In recent months, the “gamification” of business applications has become a hot topic. Gamification seeks to incorporate game mechanics into software applications for, say, CRM and E...
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The System of Record in MDM, by Dalton Cervo

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - May 30, 2011, 4:34 pm
Today’s guest article is by Dalton Cervo, the co-author of a great new book titled Master Data Management in Practice – Achieving True Customer MDM. I’ve been asked this question many times: why is implementing an MDM solution so difficult? The short answer is MDM includes technical and busin...
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Africom's PROTEA Program

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - May 23, 2011, 4:58 pm
Our 300th article. After this year’s Gartner MDM Summit conference (May 4-6 in Los Angeles), Hub Designs sent a small team to a new client in South Africa called Africom. This large telecom company is getting ready to do an enterprise transformation program called PROTEA, which stands for Proce...
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Hub Designs Clients Named To "25 Top Information Managers"

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - May 22, 2011, 12:26 pm
Each year beginning in 2010, Information Management magazine recognizes the best information managers and “people to watch”. In 2010, one of the 25 people recognized was a Hub Designs client, Dorcy Lannigan, program manager, business excellence at Ceridian. Hub Designs developed our Equifax I...
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Information, Intelligence and Process (Part 4) by Julie Hunt

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - May 19, 2011, 3:32 pm
Here’s the final article in this great series by Julie Hunt, an accomplished software industry analyst. Convergence Clarifies Benefits and Value In a recent Gartner report covering predictions for data integration and MDM: Through 2015, 66% of organizations that initiate an MDM program will...
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Information, Intelligence and Process (Part 3) by Julie Hunt

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - May 18, 2011, 5:44 pm
Here’s the next article in the series by Julie Hunt, an accomplished software industry analyst. Intelligence, People and Process Master data management (MDM) is a good reflection of how an enterprise uses data, information – and content – for business purposes. The creation and management ...
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Information, Intelligence and Process (Part 2) by Julie Hunt

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - May 17, 2011, 6:12 pm
Here’s the next article in the series by Julie Hunt, an accomplished software industry analyst. Knocking down the Silos Data, information and content saturate most enterprises, so business users must become much more directly involved in creating and managing the overall solution for handling ...
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Information, Intelligence and Process (Part 1) by Julie Hunt

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - May 16, 2011, 4:27 pm
We’ve been on site at a new client in South Africa since the Gartner MDM Summit. Here’s a great series of new articles by Julie Hunt, an accomplished software industry analyst. Combining Forces to Better Answer Business Needs Data governance can be seen as formalized policies, practices and ...
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Gartner MDM Summit 2011 Off to a Strong Start

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - May 5, 2011, 11:52 am
The Gartner MDM Summit 2011 is in its second day. It’s off to a great start, with over 500 attendees. Right now, I’m attending a session on “How to Measure the Benefits of and Build the Business Case for MDM” by Michael Smith, a Gartner Research VP. I’ve attended this session several ti...
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Launching Hub Designs Magazine

Dan Power posted an article on Hub Solution Designs - Apr 28, 2011, 2:21 am
The Hub Designs Blog is becoming the Hub Designs Magazine! The new address, HubDesignsMagazine.com, is up and running, and the old address, http://blog.hubdesigns.com, will continue to work as well. The Hub Designs Blog started in July 2007 as a way to chronicle the development of the consulting...
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About Me

Dan Power is the founder and President of Hub Solution Designs, Inc. (www.hubdesigns.com), a global management and technology consulting firm specializing in Master Data Management (MDM) and data governance.

His role at Hub Designs is a combination of best practice expert, industry analyst, client advisor, and thought leader. He’s responsible for client strategy and delivery in the areas of master data management, data governance, content marketing and social media.

Dan advises clients' senior management teams on the strategic value of their technology investments, and is the author of more than 25 articles and white papers on MDM and data governance.

Dan is a featured speaker at industry conferences, webinars and vendor events. He writes for Information Management magazine, The Data Warehousing Institute, and the Hub Designs Blog, a widely read blog on MDM and data governance.

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