Welcome to the January edition of "Best Practices in Master Data Management", published by Hub Solution Designs, Inc. We’re excited to be starting our 2nd year publishing this newsletter!
In this issue, we’ll cover:
- An Upcoming Webinar on the “Top 5 Reasons Not To Master Your Data in SAP ERP”
- Online Community and Twitter Group for Master Data Management
- Top Articles Recently on Hub Designs Blog
We'd love to hear how your Master Data Management and Data Governance initiatives are going. Call us at (781) 749-8910, or contact us via our web site.
Best regards --- Dan Power
Webinar: “Top 5 Reasons Not To Master Your Data in SAP ERP”
Siperian, an innovative provider of Master Data Management (MDM) solutions, is teaming up with Dan Power from Hub Solution Designs on a webinar titled “Top Five Reasons Not To Master Your Data in SAP ERP”.
A lot of organizations use SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for their transaction processing, but struggle to manage their non-transactional (or master) data, including customer, product, and supplier information. These types of data require a separate Master Data Management (MDM) system – to streamline business processes, reduce costs, and increase revenue by creating a single view of the customer, product, or supplier.
Dan Power will discuss the following topics during this 45-minute webinar:
- Why SAP ERP is not the right place to master data
- Why a separate MDM system is required for streamlining business operations
- How MDM and SAP ERP coexist
- The technical attributes, strengths and weaknesses of SAP and Siperian MDM products
- The requirements of an effective MDM system and best practices for implementation
This free webinar will be held on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009 at 11:00 AM Pacific (2:00 PM Eastern), and will include a live question & answer session. To register, please visit http://forms.siperian.com/content/5Reasons-SAP.
Online Community and Twitter Group for MDM
In November, I created an online community for everyone involved in Master Data Management.
After attending the Fall 2008 MDM Summit in New York, and the Gartner MDM Summit in Chicago, I was looking for a way to keep that feeling of community alive. Conferences are a great way to see old friends and meet new people, to learn from colleagues, to exchange best practices and lessons learned, and to investigate vendors.
The MDM Community is an attempt to keep that going after everyone heads home. To join, just click here. Please let me know what you'd like to see there.
For those of you on Twitter, I created a Twitter Group for Master Data Management as well. This will help you stay current on breaking news relating to MDM.
To join the Twitter Group for MDM, click here, and to follow Dan Power on Twitter, click here.
Top Articles Recently on Hub Designs Blog
Here are our “Top 5 Blog Articles″ since the last edition of the newsletter:
- MDM and SOA, a Strong Partnership — very popular article by guest author Joan Lawson
- 2009 Predictions — predicting that the MDM market will be somewhat affected by the current recession, but will still be one of the fastest-growing software segments in 2009
- Top Posts for 2008 — recapping the “Top 10 of 2008″ for anyone who missed them
- New Year's Resolutions for Hub Designs Blog — shooting for more posts, more interaction and more thought leadership in 2009
- How to Subscribe via RSS — if you’d rather read the blog via a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) reader than in your web browser
As always, thanks for your support in reading our blog and this newsletter, and we look forward to seeing you online in the MDM Community and the MDM Twitter Group!
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