Launching "MDM Jobs"

We've added an "MDM jobs board" to the Hub Solution Designs blog.

Right now, there's no comprehensive source of information on Master Data Management and Data Governance career opportunities. MDM Jobs will be that source.

Our blog is getting about 1,500 visits per month right now, and it's been growing an average of 20% every month over the last year. Our readers are business and IT professionals who are passionate about MDM and Data Governance.

Each job posted on MDM Jobs will also be featured in this newsletter, which goes out each month to more than 3,350 people.

To post a job, just send an e-mail to mdmjobs @hubdesigns.com. We'll send you a simple template to fill out and return. The cost is $100 per month for each position listed, and we accept PayPal, American Express and company checks.

To give you an idea of our reach in this area, the article announcing this on our blog has been read 215 times since it came out on Saturday Dec. 6th. And it's listed #7 on Google, #1 on Yahoo and #1 on Microsoft Live Search for the search "MDM Jobs".

Top Blog Posts for 2008

Here are our "Top 10 blog posts for 2008" for anyone who may have missed some of them.

1. Ten Best Practices for Master Data Management -- by far our most popular post (and thanks to MDMSource for featuring it on their site)
2. Our MDM Partnership Strategy -- discusses our vendor-neutral strategy for partnering with the MDM hub vendors
3. Different Styles of MDM Hub -- outlines differences between Registry, Transaction and Hybrid style hubs
4. MDM Business Case Creation & ROI Analysis -- links to a "one-pager" on our Business Case Creation & ROI Analysis service
5. How Master Data Management is Similar to ERP -- talks about the similarities between Enterprise Resource Planning and MDM
6. Metadata and Master Data Management -- discusses what metadata is and some different approaches to managing it in the context of MDM
7. Critical Data Quality Questions -- outlines four "hard questions" relating to data quality and MDM and suggests ways to answer them
8. Building a Data Governance Organization -- five points to keep in mind as you build your data governance organization
9. Five Essential Elements of MDM -- technology (hub, integration, data quality, external content) and organization/process (data governance) required to succeed with MDM
10. Importance of Integration to MDM -- piece urging MDM project champions to think about the role and importance of data integration

If you're interested in my articles in DM Review and 2008 speaking engagements, they're outlined on the Publications page of our web site.

I've been using Twitter a lot lately. It's a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: "What are you doing?" You can follow my updates on Twitter by clicking the link below.

Trip Report from Gartner MDM Summit

I recently attended Gartner's second Master Data Management Summit in Chicago. I didn't make it to last year's event, but I attended this one to look into exhibiting next year, and to gather information on how the MDM market is doing in the current economic climate.

The first session, by John Radcliffe and Andrew White, was on "Where MDM Is Going over the Next Five Years". They felt MDM is more relevant than ever in today's economic meltdown.

Projects will need to offer incremental value, without being too tactical. Developing a data stewardship culture doesn't hit the capital expense budget. They recommended people focus on the "hard benefits", efficiencies and compliance requirements, while preparing for the (eventual) upturn. And they strongly suggested developing the metrics to quantify and communicate the value of your MDM program.

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