CPO Blog

I just loved this article by Steve on tdwi.org on the BI marketplace landscape.  This has to be one of the most exciting times to be our BI industry.

Read the article here 

Still more research supporting MDM as a critical building block of BI (and CPM).  On DM Review there is an article outlining Ventana research report.

For a view of combining the two, see the BI Review Article.

Earlier this month Microsoft purchased Stratature, a lesser known player in the MDM space.  I worked with Stratature a few years ago, when they were very much targeting the Cognos MDM problem in a decentralized cube environment.  With Oracle and IBM already in with their MDM offering it will be interesting to see how what happens to the pure play MDM companies such as Siperian.  A few years ago, the ETL market was declared dead with all the products being swooped up by big players, but Informatica is still the pure-play, so history does not provide the answer on this one.

In my June column, I talk about public sector can benefit from data management and some of the key challenges.  Taken directly from experience in a large urban school system, the article points out key places where DM can help.

Read the article at DM Review

The BI customer challenges faced today are not much different from the first wave of consolidations a few years ago.  I have cowritten an article for BI Review with Nadeem Mumtaz with the tips for surviving a vendor consolidation.

View the article at BI Review.

Article from DM Review, outlines the results of a DataMonitor report for IT Trends for ”

“According to the report ‘2007 Trends to Watch: Pharmaceutical Technology,’ translational medicine will drive adoption of robust data analytic solutions among other business intelligence (BI) technologies.”   CRM and Product Lifecycle Management round out the top three.

 Read the DM Review article here.

A full length DVD of the CPO Seminar is now available.  You can request a complementary copy or download here.

View the Trailer.

This month get set for a one two punch in DM Review and BI Review.  Out in print already, DM Review has my latest column for Business Solutions.  In the June BI Review, long time colleague Nadeem Mumtaz and I collaborated on an article on Surviving a Vendor Takeover.

Look for links when they hit the online versions of bireview.com and dmreview.com