Tag "Cloud MDM"
The global pandemic has seen more and more companies accelerate their move to the cloud and become more cost-efficient, agile, and innovative. As an on-demand, self-service environment, the cloud is now vital to achieving end-to-end digital transformation. Now, more than ever, the cloud is helping businesses reinvent and outmaneuver uncertainty. Cloud migration initiatives, such as... more
Have you ever tried to clean up your data in Salesforce—remove the duplicate records, fill in empty fields, standardize addresses, verify contact information, or roll up accounts into multiple hierarchies? If you’ve used a manual process to do this, you’ve realized that it’s a never-ending task. And you also know that it’s difficult because the... more
Finance data lives in many places within the company and goes by many names—chart of account, cost center, product code, business units, projects, legal entities, as well as core reference data such as billing codes, taxonomies, geocodes, and product classifications. And the finance functions of most organizations typically have a process for managing and changing... more
Over the last few years, we have seen a wave of developments that have had an impact on executive decision-making. CFOs have been at the center of this disruption, as their role in the last five to 10 years has changed dramatically as more and more responsibility has been put on their plate. Today’s finance leaders not only need to arrive at recommendations at critical junctures for the organization, they also need to show how... more
I’m often asked about the differences between software as a service (SaaS)-based master data management (MDM) and on-premises MDM. The answer is not that simple and requires a bit of explanation. To understand this better requires an explanation of what SaaS is, as well as why companies choose it rather than an on-premises solution. Let’s... more
This blog was co-authored by Binit Tejani, Data & Analytics Alliances Lead, Deloitte UK. Having partnered on the delivery of cloud solutions for some 14 years now, Deloitte and Informatica joined forces again at the recent Deloitte Experience Analytics conference in London to showcase how we enable our clients to use intelligent data to improve... more
Cloud computing has gained a lot of attention in the last decade since Amazon Web Services (AWS) first launched in 2006. Amazon has been the undisputed leader in the fundamental shift in the delivery of products and services to end customers ever since, but its dominance is now being challenged by an aggressive push by... more
Data is the new business currency, hence your CRM application and data are arguably the most important assets that you are leveraging. At the head of the CRM pack is Salesforce. Its staggering 20% market share equals the next four vendors combined. Ultimately, the CRM app and data can provide insights that can impact sales,... more