Tag Archives: Collaboration

Agile Data Integration Maximizes Business Value In The Era Of Big Data

Adopting Agile may require a cultural shift and in the beginning can be disruptive to an organization.  However, as I mentioned in Part 1 of this blog series, Agile Data Integration holds the promise to increase chances of success, deliver projects faster, and reduce defects.  Applying Lean principles within your organization can help ease the [...]

Does Business NEED To Be Involved?

This should be a rhetorical question since the obvious answer is YES, but if an alien from another planet were to observe the behavior of many organizations in regards to business involvement in data quality, the conclusion would be NO.  Here are the questions the alien might ask: Who makes staff hiring/firing decisions?  Line management [...]

BPM for MDM – Great for Inbound, But Not So Much for Outbound?

The recent blog post from Forrester Research analysts Clay Richardson and Rob Karel posed an excellent question around synergies between Business Process Management (BPM) and Master Data Management (MDM). Siperian customers have been at the forefront of driving these synergistic requirements that have made the Siperian MDM Hub uniquely suited for bringing together BPM tools such as Lombardi with MDM to enable data governance.

Administrators are from Mars; Analysts are from Venus

Just as they say success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration, it can also be said that the success of a data integration project is 10% technology and 90% chemistry. And when I say chemistry, I’m not talking about hydrocarbons and nitrates, but the chemistry of people. The success of any complex data integration depends [...]