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"BEST PRACTICES IN MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT" NEWSLETTER |  |
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Greetings! Welcome to the March edition of "Best Practices in Master Data Management", published by Hub Solution Designs. This month, we've got a great article on "How to Write an RFP for Master Data Management" by Ravi Shankar of Siperian. We've also got a new team member, Maureen Butler, with a strong background in MDM and SAP, and speaking engagements at the MDM Summit in San Francisco (March 30 - April 1) and Oracle Application Users Group conference in Denver (Apr. 13-17). If you'd like to discuss your Master Data Management or Customer Data Integration initiative, we'd love to hear from you. Just call (781) 749-8910, or contact us via our web site. Best regards --- Dan Power 
How to Write an RFP for Master Data Management Critical master data management (MDM) functionality can easily be overlooked when a request for proposal (RFP) is narrowly focused on a single data type - such as customer (Customer Data Integration) or product (Product Information Management) - or on near-term requirements within a single business function. Consequently, IT teams and systems integrators alike run the risk of selecting and investing in technologies that may be difficult to extend to other data types or difficult to scale across the organization. Worse, such solutions will likely require costly and extensive custom coding in order to add additional business data entities or data sources, or to extend the system to other lines of business or geographies. In order to avoid these costly pitfalls, bolster the return on investment, and reduce the overall project risk, it is important that your RFP include key business data requirements across several critical business functions including sales, marketing, customer support and compliance.
Maureen Butler Joins Hub Solution Designs; Brings Extensive SAP Expertise We're very happy to have Maureen Butler joining us as a Senior Consultant. She brings significant SAP information management, marketing, supply chain, organizational design and change management expertise to the team. Prior to joining Hub Solution Designs, she was Director, Customer Information Management for a Fortune 500 company, W.W. Grainger, Inc., where she led a team of 35 people in cleansing & migrating customer data into an enterprise-wide SAP system. She also developed the Data Governance and Quality programs, and implemented Grainger's Center of Excellence for Customer Information.
Catch Us at the MDM Summit and Oracle Applications User Group Conferences We're going to be speaking at the upcoming Spring 2008 MDM Summit in San Francisco, and the Oracle Applications Users Group COLLABORATE 08 conference in Denver.
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