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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 I thought...(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(TechNet.10).aspx...(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 I would...(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 Data Management,...(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 the MDM...(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 to but...(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)

Stratature Misinformation

Roger.Wolter — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:15:00 GMT

Stratature Misinformation Do you remember the “telephone” game we used to play in school where you line a bunch of people up in a row and whisper something to the first person in line who whispers it to the next one, etc. and the last person repeats what...(read more)

Master Data Management, Microsoft, and Stratature

Roger.Wolter — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:20:00 GMT

Master Data Management, Microsoft, and Stratature If you’re a regular reader, you are aware that I have been blogging about MDM for about a year now. I’m very excited by the news that Microsoft acquired Stratature last week for two reasons – I think it’s...(read more)

Master Data Management at TechEd

Roger.Wolter — Fri, 25 May 2007 00:47:00 GMT

Master Data Management at TechEd I notice that no MDM sessions made it into the TechEd schedule this year. If you’re a regular reader, you know that MDM is my current passion. If you’re interested in MDM, I would love to talk to you at the Architecture...(read more)

Windows WF on SQL Service Broker

Roger.Wolter — Mon, 21 May 2007 17:43:00 GMT

Windows WF on SQL Service Broker From the time we first started working on the Service Broker programming models five or six years ago, it was obvious that most SSB programs end up looking a lot like a workflow. Messages come in and the application processes...(read more)

MDM Hub Architecture White Paper

Roger.Wolter — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:58:00 GMT

MDM Hub Architecture White Paper I took my MDM Hub Architecture series of posts, cleaned them up and combined them into a white paper that was just published on MSDN: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb410798.aspx...(read more)