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MDM - Scaling Out Matching

Roger.Wolter — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:48:00 GMT

MDM - Scaling Out Matching It’s been a long time since my last post but I’ve been pretty busy figuring out how IT works. As you might expect, one of the hardest things has been learning all the new acronyms. Not only that but some of the acronyms...(read more)

Changes

Roger.Wolter — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:32:00 GMT

Changes This isn’t one of my more typical technical posts so if you’re looking for profound technical insights you can skip the rest of this. This summer I went through a career change that will probably impact what I blog about so I thought I should...(read more)

New Master Data Management White Paper Series

Roger.Wolter — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:38:00 GMT

New Master Data Management White Paper Series My friend Tyler Graham is writing a series of white papers on the practical aspects of implementing an MDM system. The first three are available here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc505992...(read more)

Choosing MDM Hub styles

Roger.Wolter — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:01:00 GMT

Choosing MDM Hub styles A couple weeks ago, someone asked me how to choose which MDM hub style would work best for an application. I thought I had covered this in one of my white papers but I couldn’t find a good reference to give him so I thought...(read more)

Post Mortems

Roger.Wolter — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:40:00 GMT

One of my pet peeves is that after we ship something we normally have a Post Mortem meeting to discuss what we should learn from the experience. I'm not against the meeting. I think they're great and we learn a lot. Sometimes we even have pizza! What...(read more)

Master Data is not Metadata

Roger.Wolter — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:32:00 GMT

Master Data is not Metadata I regularly get emails from people asking about the Microsoft Metadata story. While I assume that’s mainly confusion over the MDM acronym which could reasonably be interpreted as Metadata Management as well as Master...(read more)

Master Data Management Philosophy

Roger.Wolter — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:01:00 GMT

Master Data Management Philosophy Last week I did a presentation that included a slide on my philosophy for MDM so I decided to expand that slide into a blog post. While this is my philosophy, I think it comes pretty close to the way the rest of...(read more)

New Microsoft MDM Web Site

Roger.Wolter — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:29:00 GMT

Check out the new Microsoft MDM web site: http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/mdm/default.mspx...(read more)

Gartner MDM Conference

Roger.Wolter — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:27:00 GMT

Gartner MDM Conference I just got back from the Gartner MDM Conference. I learned a lot and had the chance to talk to a lot of people about MDM and what they are doing in their organizations. Maybe it was because of the sample I happened to talk...(read more)

Analytical and Transactional MDM

Roger.Wolter — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:40:00 GMT

Analytical and Transactional MDM I was talking to someone about Analytical and Transactional MDM recently and we realized that while there are quite a few conceptual differences between the two, there’s a significant amount of overlap in the implementation...(read more)