Tag Archives: Master Data Management

Social Media Monitoring with CEP, pt. 2: Context As Important As Sentiment

When I last wrote about social media monitoring, I made a case for using a technology like Complex Event Processing (“CEP”) to detect rapidly growing and geospatially-oriented social media mentions that can provide early warning detection for the public good (Social Media Monitoring for Early Warning of Public Safety Issues, Oct. 27, 2011). A recent [...]

Informatica Positioned in the Recent Gartner Magic Quadrant for MDM

Gartner recently published its annual Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management of Customer Data Solutions, which “positions MDM of customer data solution vendors (and their products) on the basis of their Completeness of Vision relative to the market and their Ability to Execute on that vision.” The growth of MDM market has been phenomenal – [...]

Data Storage Is So Cheap Its Expensive

The cost for 1GB of magnetic disk storage 20 years ago was $1,000 – now it’s eight cents. 1GB is enough to store about 20 thousand letter-size scanned documents. To store the same number of paper documents would require two four-drawer filing cabinets which would cost about $400. The cost of electronic data storage is [...]

Reflecting On Data Quality In 2011

With just a few days remaining in what has been an eventful year, I thought I’d take some time to reflect on the world of data quality as I’ve observed it over the past twelve months.  While the idea of data quality improvement in general didn’t change much, the way that companies are viewing and [...]

Three Valuable Ways To Use Your Metadata Manager MDM Tool

You probably know that you can and must validate the integrity of your Data Model using the Metadata Manager Tool workbench (MET), but you can also do much more. In this blog I focus on three additional things you can do with the MET. Once you have used MET to obtain a valid Data Model, [...]