Automating the process “from estimate to invoice” requires applications to “talk to each other” & “share data nicely”! Small businesses inevitably find that initially-attractive applications are proprietary, trapping their hard-won data. If your business is pushing over the £500k T/O marker, then the applications that helped you grow, are now a constraint. I can’t automate…
Important control data may be located within ERP & CRM packages. So delivering successfully on a data inventory; a catalogue; gathering control data sources for business resilience, or building a knowledge platform means that at some point, this information requirement has to be addressed. Of course, identifying the location of control data tables and fields…
Once you have clean data, why stint your investment? Curation isn’t just about certain datasets (as many would have it) nor just about metadata, but about sustaining the health & value of your entire data-fuelled corporate cardiovascular system. Just like the human body, a blockage anywhere in the system can prove fatal. Think again about…
In an enterprise application environment, Master Data Management (MDM) used to refer to the desire to achieve a ‘golden record’ within a data domain. It was the holy grail of enterprise computing – a single version of the truth in a single repository, indicating mastery of organisational data – but then reality set in. MDM…