Quotations

«Maintaining a single view of products, customers, locations, and financial accounts is a significant challenge. At its heart, master data management involves changing, consolidating, and rationalizing core processes such as new product introduction or customer (or patient/citizen/supplier) registration and ongoing management. The greatest complexity comes from these business process changes and process integration issues, over and above the data integration requirements.»

«The Biblical record itself makes it plain that the days of creation are literal days, not long indefinite ages. If he wished to convey the idea of long geological ages, however, he could surely have done it far more clearly and effectively in other words than in those which he selected.»

«The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.»

«Fair Isaac continues to successfully deliver analytic applications that support critical business process and overall performance improvements, ... Fair Isaac's solutions for vital processes such as customer management, risk management and fraud control are well-established in the financial services industry, and the company continues to focus on expanding the relevance and impact of its analytics across industries.»

«The business and IT challenges associated with the ongoing management of master data have plagued companies for years, ... Organizations finding success with Hyperion's master data management technology illustrate the fact that with proper planning and discipline significant progress can be made and measurable benefits achieved.»

«The XML approach will provide the lingua franca for getting at various types of data; it is providing a sort of structure for unstructured data, ... The question is how much of this unstructured data is going to be in XML. It will be a small part relative to the total amount of unstructured data that is in a company.»

«The macro-trends foreshadow major disruptions in the software industry. For example, enterprise solutions platform highlights a shift away from ERP suites as the center of gravity in applications. Intelligent process automation speaks to the rising importance of operational decisions as the target for improvements in business efficiency. And the pull of compliance brings renewed attention to information governance across the enterprise. IDC software analysts are teaming up across research areas to explore the implications of these disruptions to established practices and market players,»

«An innovative and noteworthy feature of Hyperion System 9 is integrated master data management.»

«[The concept of MDM, and the problem it illustrates, has been around for several years, according to IDC group vice president and general manager Henry Morris.] MDM reaches across a number of areas, where functional units within an organization need to share data on products, customers, locations, etc., across multiple systems, ... As companies gather more data, and have to make it usable for CRM and compliance purposes, they encounter increasing difficulties and questions. What data is correct? Who is responsible for it? Who maintains the information?»

«The XML approach will provide the lingua franca for getting at various types of data; it is providing a sort of structure for unstructured data. The question is how much of this unstructured data is going to be in XML. It will be a small part relative to the total amount of unstructured data that is in a company.»