Keynotes

Tuesday
20 April
09:00-10:00 Keynote MDM 2.0: The Convergence of MDM & Data Governance
Aaron Zornes, Founder & Chief Research Officer, The MDM Institute
Tuesday
20 April
15:15-16:00 Plenary
Keynote
Implementing MDM Indexing in a Complex Environment
Graeme Fullerton, Head of Enterprise Architecture, Electrocomponents plc
Vis Bowatte, Software Sales and Strategy, IBM Software Group
Wednesday
21 April
09:00-10:00 Plenary
Keynote
Process Data Management: The Ultimate Goal of Your MDM and Data Governance Efforts
Rob Karel, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Wednesday
21 April
10:30-11:30 Keynote Product Evaluation Criteria & Field Reports for 'Top 15' MDM Solutions
Aaron Zornes, Founder & Chief Research Officer, The MDM Institute
Wednesday
21 April
13:50-14:35 Plenary
Keynote
MDM relevance for Next Generation CRM
João de Oliveira, Director Business Development, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Oracle
 

Tuesday
20 April
09:00-10:00

Keynote

 

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KEYNOTE: MDM 2.0: The Convergence of MDM & Data Governance
Aaron Zornes, Founder & Chief Research Officer, The MDM Institute

Enterprise-level master data governance that spans the entire master data lifecycle (creation, promotion, archiving, ...) is extremely difficult to execute for both organisational and technical issues. Yet increasingly this is being mandated as a core deliverable of large-scale MDM projects. Through 2010-11, both major systems integrators and boutique consultancies will focus on productizing their data governance frameworks / methodologies while MDM software providers struggle to link upstream data governance processes with downstream MDM hubs. By 2011-12, all mega vendor MDM solutions will evolve from "passive aggressive data governance" mode to "active data governance" wherein they provide the capabilities to capture business rules which in turn are propagated into an MDM hub.

This keynote will focus on a set of strategic planning assumptions facing IT organisations during 2010-11 and beyond by highlighting strategies for:

  • Provisioning a substantive amount of "master data governance"
  • Partnering with a faithful service provider
  • Betting on an odds-on favorite MDM solution (brand/architecture)

Featured Speaker:

Aaron Zornes

Aaron Zornes
Founder & Chief Research Officer
The MDM Institute


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Tuesday
20 April
15:15–16:00

Plenary
Keynote

 

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PLENARY KEYNOTE: Implementing MDM Indexing in a Complex Environment
Graeme Fullerton, Head of Enterprise Architecture, Electrocomponents plc
Karen Leightell, Information Management Product Management, IBM Software Group

Electrocomponents plc is a high service electronic, electrical and industrial distributor that supplies a wide range of products to customers who are typically research and development or maintenance engineers in business around the world. Electrocomponents operates companies in 27 countries under various trading brands such as RS Components, Radiospares, Radionics and Allied Electronics, and has distributor networks that cover a further 38 countries. In this session Electrocomponents will review how a MDM solution must underpin any multi-channel and product based growth plans of an organization. This will be set in the context of MDM's growing impact on enterprises both large and small, and how required MDM architectures and capability differ according to organizational and functional needs. This plenary keynote will provide both a strategy roadmap and a case study to demonstrate how MDM can help the business in:
  • Deploying a common standardised platform to improve collaboration across subsidiaries, distribution & retail channels
  • Enhancing support of supply chain operations & synchronising demand & supply to respond faster to changing market conditions
  • Applying MDM on a centralised basis to improve data integrity, management capabilities, & financial reporting

Speakers:

Graeme Fullerton

Graeme Fullerton
Head of Enterprise Architecture
Electrocomponents plc


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Vis Bowatte Vis Bowatte
Software Sales and Strategy
IBM Software Group


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Wednesday
21 April
09:00-10:00

Plenary
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PLENARY KEYNOTE: Process Data Management: The Ultimate Goal Of Your MDM and Data Governance Efforts
Rob Karel, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Data management professionals drive master data management (MDM) strategies to ensure delivery of a single, trusted enterprise view of data to the business, but struggle to engage business stakeholders to support and participate in traditionally IT-driven data quality efforts. Business process management (BPM) professionals, on the other hand, understand the need for data but often give it lip service,  doing little to take responsibility for ensuring data quality within their processes. This keynote will discuss how an effective data governance program can help organizations embrace Process Data Management best practices to deliver "one version of the truth" as a key foundation for business process transformation efforts.

What you will learn:

  • Why high quality data require standardized business processes and critical business processes demand high quality data
  • Relevant market trends around data governance and MDM
  • Recommendations on how to kickoff your process data management strategy

Featured Speaker:

Rob Karel

Rob Karel
Principal Analyst
Forrester Research


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Wednesday
21 April
10:30-11:30

Keynote

 

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KEYNOTE: Product Evaluation Criteria & Field Reports for 'Top 15' MDM Solutions
Aaron Zornes, Founder & Chief Research Officer, The MDM Institute


Master data is a critical asset that must be increasingly synchronized within and beyond the enterprise. During 2010-11, many large enterprises will focus on MDM by deploying a 3rd generation database-centric infrastructure to deliver a panoramic customer view across multiple channels, business lines, and heterogeneous IT environments. Other "type A" organizations will undertake phase two of their MDM programs to either go enterprise wide with a single master entity (customer, product, or supplier) or endeavor to go "multi-entity" by adding a second master data domain to the scope. This session will focus on the "why" and "how" of MDM technical evaluations for both scenarios by providing insight into:
  • Validating the pros & cons of the dominant architectural models & evaluation criteria - e.g., data models, process models, scalability, privacy management, etc.
  • Inventorying the vendor landscape - e.g., registry, data hub, EAI/EII, portals, SOA-based web services, data service provider, etc.
  • Applying a rigorous methodology to MDM product evaluations & implementations for both mega vendor solutions (IBM MDM Server, MS Master Data Services, Oracle MDM, SAP NW MDM) & pure play (D&B/Purisma, DataFlux, IBI MD Center, Initiate Systems, Siperian, Teradata, Tibco)

Featured Speaker:

Aaron Zornes

Aaron Zornes
Founder & Chief Research Officer
The MDM Institute


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Wednesday
21 April
13:50-14:35

Plenary
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PLENARY KEYNOTE: MDM relevance for Next Generation CRM
João de Oliveira, Director Business Development, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Oracle


As consumers, we would hope that the Golden Rule of "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you" is at the core of any organisation we do business with. Unfortunately, this does not always appear to be the case, not because these organisations don't want to, but because they don't have a full picture of the customer and its relationships.

Knowing that strong relationships are a key success factor to retaining customers and therefore securing revenue, understand the customer potential influencing power is a must and with the advent of web 2.0 and social networks is becoming ever harder and complex. This is one of the reasons why Master Data Management (MDM) - which helps to provide organisations with a single, holistic and unified view of a customer (but not only) - is a foundational for Next Generation CRM.

Featured Speaker:

Joao de Oliveira

João de Oliveira
Director Business Development, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
Oracle

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