Archive : Implementation

The iCloud is a new kind of cloud where copies of data exist in MANY places. This difference is not a fine point. It is a “game-changer.”

Location-based data is the biggest privacy watershed since commercialization of the Internet. It’s time for industry to create a Code of Conduct to manage it.

In the last post, we looked into what Master Data mean. Now I will talk about the why it is so important in today’s competitive business landscape.

Chris Brogan recently blogged, that “there’s no sizzling fajita effect online.” That is, online commerce does not provide that visceral experience to causes others around you to buy the same thing on an impulse. Social media can be a proxy for the ‘sizzling fajita’—if used correctly.

There are two kinds of technology in the world: tech that you choose to use and tech you are forced to use. Consumer tech is now sufficiently advanced and easy-to-integrate that it is time to let employees choose and bring their own tech to work for everyday use.

Master Data, when maintained in a centralized fashion, can lead to all parts of the business singing from the same sheet of music. This makes managing an enterprise as well as deriving business intelligence out of such data much easier than if different units and systems used different core data.