Click to learn more about author Bruck Assefa. Welcome back. In this article, we’ll dive into the next five myths about Master Data Management (MDM) and build off what we learned in Part I which covered the first five myths and corresponding facts. As we’ve learned, MDM can be a confusing topic, so I’d like to […]
Myths and Facts about Master Data Management
Click to learn more about author Bruck Assefa. Throughout my years in this industry, I’ve had the pleasure of educating organizations about the in’s and out’s of Master Data Management (MDM) solutions. In my discussions about the industry, use cases and technologies, a few things stood out to me as regular misconceptions and potential pitfalls. Most […]
Case Study: Using Data Quality and Data Management to Improve Patient Care
Mismatched patient data is the third leading cause of preventable death in the United States, according to healthIT.gov, and a 2016 survey by the Poneman Institute revealed that 86 percent of all healthcare practitioners know of an error caused by incorrect patient data. Patient misidentification is also responsible for 35 percent of denied insurance claims, […]
Is Master Data a Controlled Substance?
Click to learn more about author Frank Cerwin. I recently engaged on a project to design a Master Data Management (MDM) solution for pharmaceutical products. As my knowledge of the subject area developed, I began to see how the degree of Data Governance applied to pharmaceutical products is also applicable to all types of Master […]
Good Master Data is Good Business
Every building needs a solid foundation. The same is true for businesses – and their foundation is data. “The data is in charge of the business,” according to Scott Taylor, Dun & Bradstreet’s Master Data Market Development and Innovation Lead. “If you don’t have it right, it causes most of your problems.” Perhaps the biggest […]
Case Study: Three Strategies for Data Governance Success
“How do we measure the quality of our health care?” asked Laura Tellmann, Healthcare Informatics Executive at BJC HealthCare in St. Louis, speaking at the Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference. She shared a photo of a young boy who had survived a brain tumor and post-surgery stroke, as a reminder that the quality of the […]
The Missing Link of Sustainable MDM Programs
Click to learn more about author Frank Cerwin. Do you know Otto Rohwedder? Some of the greatest ideas are compared to his invention. You reveal it when you declare “It’s the greatest thing since…”. That’s right. Otto invented sliced bread. Unfortunately, Otto focused on the technology and process for his bread-slicing machine. From 1912 and […]
Facilitating Collaborative Data Governance, Enterprise Data Architecture, and Data Modeling
“On its own, Big Data means nothing. It’s got to exist, coexist, and work with the other data,” said Ron Huizenga, Senior Product Manager at IDERA Software. “The good news in the industry is [that] we’re past Big Data being the shiny ball that people are chasing,” and now we’re trying to assess what Big […]
Dun & Bradstreet Repositions with Master Data: Providing a Consistent Industry Standard
Scott Taylor, Market Development & Innovation Lead for Dun & Bradstreet Master Data says “Good decisions you make on bad data are just bad decisions you don’t know about yet.” Dun & Bradstreet is the “oldest continuously operating data company,” remarked Taylor during a recent DATAVERSITY® interview. “We have been collecting and managing data since […]
IDERA Drives Business-Driven Data Architecture
Today’s enterprise IT environment most likely consists of a plethora of different database platforms, all of which must be supported across the lifecycle. How to streamline managing every aspect of the multi-platform database ecosystem? IDERA’s answer is to let it help out. Its acquisition last fall of Embarcadero Technologies’ ER/Studio Data Architecture solution and DB […]