Category Archives: Master Data Management
Logitech MDM Case Study: Live Questions, Answers and Attendee Poll Results (Part II of II)
Last week, I posted this blog: Logitech MDM Case Study: Seven Lessons for Mastering Product and Customer Data (Part I of II) which shares highlights from recent webinar. Logitech’s Severin Stoll, Senior Business Engagement Manager of Global IT Solutions spoke with David Decloux, MDM technical lead in EMEA about Logitech’s Global MDM implementation, in which they are mastering product, customer and consumer data.
Logitech’s Severin Stoll and Informatica's David Decloux answer questions from webinar attendees about building an MDM business case, implementation time, data governance, and real-time MDM.
In this blog, I’ll share some of the highlights of the Q&A I led and results from two polls. (more…)
Expert Advice for ACO Success: Gain Consensus on Metrics and Use High Quality Healthcare Data for Better Patient Care
It’s amazing how often Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are in the news. This Fierce Healthcare article, Maps of 2012 Medicare Accountable Care Organizations, states that ACOs are “the biggest change to Medicare in decades.” This Forbes’ article, Obamacare’s Accountable Care Approach Reaches 1 in 10 in US, reveals that “more than 2.4 million Medicare beneficiaries will be receiving care from more than 150 ACOs that have signed up to participate.”
Join a discussion with healthcare industry experts about gaining consensus on ACO metrics and using high quality healthcare data for better patient care.
But what do ACOs need to deliver on their promise of giving coordinated high quality care to Medicare patients at the right time, avoiding unnecessary services and preventing medical errors?
Healthcare industry experts agree on two basics required for ACO success. At a minimum, physicians, hospitals and healthcare providers need:
1) consensus on ACO success metrics to measure performance, and
2) access to timely, high quality healthcare data to better manage patient care and track performance.
Without an agreed upon set of ACO success metrics and better healthcare data management, how can ACOs better manage patients and identify and monitor at-risk patients? Without these basics, how can they improve patient experience, outcomes and healthcare costs?
Bridging the gap and reaching consensus on ACO metrics is one of the greatest challenges for ACOs. The good news is there are experts who can help. Please join us on Wednesday January 23rd for a live Let’s Talk Healthcare Webinar: Bridging the Gap: Reaching Consensus on ACO Metrics. Three healthcare experts:
- Senthil Balasubramanian, Manager of Decision Support at University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Maury DePalo, Director of Edgewater’s Healthcare Practices
- Richard Cramer, Informatica’s Healthcare Strategist
will talk about gaining consensus on ACO metrics, monitoring metrics, making adjustments as needed, and leveraging high quality healthcare data to better manage patient care, healthcare costs and performance.
This is the third live webinar in a three-part series: Let’s Talk Healthcare with Informatica and Edgewater:
- On-demand Let’s Talk Healthcare Webinar #1 Analytics for Accountable Care
- On-demand Let’s Talk Healthcare Webinar #2 High Quality Data: the Key to ACO Success
- Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/INFAHC
Logitech MDM Case Study: 7 Lessons for Mastering Product and Customer Data (Part I of II)
Severin Stoll played a critical role selling MDM within the business organization as a solution to their business challenges. Currently he’s in IT, responsible for the overall MDM program.
Logitech’s Severin Stoll, Senior Business Engagement Manager of Global IT Solutions participated in a webinar with David Decloux, MDM technical lead in EMEA about Logitech’s Global MDM Implementation.
Severin shared the business challenges that led the global electronics company to pursue an MDM program, their business requirements, and the seven lessons for mastering product and customer data. Their next step is mastering consumer data.
In the next two blogs I’ll share some of the highlights from the discussion, the Q&A session and the poll results from this popular webinar which attracted more than 800 registrants. (more…)
2013 Cloud Data Management Predictions
Ok, I know it’s a little late to post 2013 technology predictions, but with so many good ones published already, I figured I’d sandbag a little and not only post a few of my own but also share a few of my favorites so far. For me, it starts with Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends presentation. 2013 is going to be a year of “re-imagining” enterprise software, from social, to mobile, to cloud, to Big Data and Analytics.
I summarized my 2012 predictions in an earlier post and Informatica already posted some great predictions from the world of data. Here are my 2013 cloud data management predictions. (more…)
MDM for Improved Customer Service
Dennis Moore, senior vice president and general manager, Master Data Management, Informatica, discusses how MDM can help companies improve customer service.
During this video, Dennis answers the following questions:
- What did you discuss at the 2012 European MDM product advisory council?
- With the holiday season upon us, how can companies use MDM to best serve their customers?
- What have other industries learned from Retail? How can they apply what you have shared with us today?
Evolution: The General Store to the Individualized Shopper
The retail industry has seen a major transformation since its evolution. Tracing back to the 18th century where the concept of retail was limited to a “general store” the industry has now grown to the concept of the “individualized shopper.” Initially, the power lay with the merchants, then it was shifted to “brands” and then to “big-box chain stores.” Today the power has shifted squarely to the consumer. This new consumer is empowered – primarily through online and social channels – with nearly limitless options on their path to purchase. The industry is beginning to recognize that the experience they offer, whether in store or online, must be centered on this new consumer reality. (more…)
2013 Predictions from the World of Data
Let me open by stating what I’m not: I’m not one of those psychic data scientists who can predict the future – although sometimes I wish I had gone to the same school that Nate Silver did! However, my hindsight has always been phenomenal! It’s been a year of immense change and one thing I can predict with 100% certainty for 2013 – more change!
It’s become an annual tradition at this time of year to share technology predictions and trends that we should pay attention to in the coming year. They have already started coming through thick and fast – see here for predictions relating to B2B Marketing, Social Media, IDC, Gartner, Tech and even Jim Cramer! I’ve been thinking about this lately and I want to share my top predictions. Read on and tell me what you think. I’d love to hear what your predictions are for 2013 too. Let’s see how close we are on what’s to come. (more…)
When It Comes to Data Quality Delivery, the Soft Stuff Is the Hard Stuff (Part 4 of 6)
In my previous post I emphasized the importance of demonstrated project management fundamentals as a key enabler of effective data quality delivery. In this blog, I will discuss why an understanding of corporate financial concepts is so important to data quality success.
Despite the continued evolution of data management technologies and the growing awareness of the challenges and promises of data quality, business buy-in is still a major barrier to the widespread adoption of data quality as another lever to achieve operational effectiveness. One of the key reasons for limited adoption is a clear linkage between data quality and a business’s performance, which is measured in a myriad of ways from operational metrics to managerial reports to formal KPIs. But, eventually, the enterprise’s performance is summarized in three key financial statements; the income statement, the balance sheet and the cash flow statement. Positioning data quality impacts or improvements in the context of these financial statements begins to “connect the dots” and moves data quality from the abstract to the concrete and from the theoretical to the practical. To illustrate this point, let’s take a look at the impacts and implications of a simple data quality issue like “undeliverable” billing addresses. (more…)
Data Challenges for FATCA Compliance
In this video, Peter Ku, director of solution marketing, Global Financial Services, Informatica, discusses the data challenges associated with FATCA compliance.
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) was signed into U.S law in March 2010 and is coming into effect on January 1, 2014. The new law will require Foreign Financial Institutions to report the names of U.S. persons and owners of companies who have bank accounts in these banks for tax reporting and withholding purposes.
Peter answers the following questions:
1) What is FATCA and what are the requirements financial services companies must comply with?
2) What must financial institutions do to successfully meet these requirements?
3) What do financial institutions need to address the data-related challenges and comply with FATCA?
Cloud Integration Predictions – The Year in Review
For the past few years I’ve been posting my cloud integration predictions. It’s always interesting to look back to see what transpired and evaluate where I scored well and where I was off base. Here’s how I did in 2011: 2011 #Cloud Integration Predictions in Review. My 2012 cloud integration predictions centered around Data as a Service, Master Data Management, Business Intelligence and enterprise IT adoption of all flavors of cloud computing. Before I throw my hat into the 2013 predictions ring, here’s a review of 2012.
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