With email and articles on master data management running neck and neck with Nigeria widows entrusting me with $millions of US dollars on deposit in some third country, I decided to take another (brief) look:
While MDM vendors will probably tell you that the high success rate is due to their superior technology, Baseline’s Jill Dyche, who analyzed the survey results, has come to a different conclusion.
Most current MDM projects have focused on just “low-hanging fruit,” Dyche said. They often tackle jobs like reconciling names and addresses, leaving the more challenging work — sorting out product specifications and other data from numerous internal and external sources, for example — for phase 2 and beyond. As MDM project deployments grow more complex, ‘drama’ could follow, By Jeff Kelly, News Editor
Drama? Well, HR versus Accounting, or Sales versus Production over the unified master record sounds like drama to me. Not to mention the entrenched interests in particular systems.
Topic maps, managing diverse semantics with less drama, what’s there not to like?