Profisee Blog

11/28/2018

5 Ways to Align MDM Capabilities with Business Processes

Here are 5 step-by-step ways to align MDM capabilities with the key business processes in your organization.

11/14/2018

Changing Role of the CIO: From Delivery Exec to Data-Driven Business Exec

Gartner’s recent survey reports that 84 percent of CIOs have responsibilities outside the world of IT. Specifically they work with business units to enable digital transformation and innovation. Those priorities call on their IT skills because they point to data and analytics as the most important technologies in their bid to move their businesses forward and accomplish the enterprise’s mission.

11/14/2018

Poor Data, Bad Reports, Worse Decisions - What Can You Do?

As a data expert, you know that data quality means better decisions. Unfortunately, many data and business intelligence experts we talk to tell us that the C-suite doesn’t see the value in data governance.

11/14/2018

The Case for BI and Master Data Management

What is Master Data Management? Master Data Management (MDM) fixes data quality problems, creates clean master records, and manages changes in those records. That’s the short version.

11/08/2018

“One Thing Leads to Another” - The Fixx

It’s funny when I talk about the “One Thing”, memories of the movie City Slickers come to mind. The scene where Jack Palance’s character, Curly tells Mitch, played by Billy Crystal the secret of life is (and I am paraphrasing here) “One Thing.” Just one thing you need to stick to.

10/15/2018

On Deck for the CIO – Driving Revenue & Exploiting Data

The advent of intelligent management tools designed to help IT managers do their jobs more efficiently and the movement toward a data-centric mindset offers a chance to shift their focus and gives CIOs both the opportunity and the responsibility to drive revenue for their company.

10/15/2018

8 Business Process Problems That Result from Data Duplication

Duplicate master data and missed opportunities for revenue, margin, and efficiency have been linked in case study after case study.

10/15/2018

Winning the Internal Sale – 8 steps to get your "data" project approved

Data Managers and alike often wonder why some organizations are able to get budget and resource approval for their data management initiatives quickly, while others struggle to get funding. While they know there is a business need, they struggle to get buy-in, leading to a lengthy debate where the decision in some cases is to do nothing.

09/12/2018

MDM Best Practices - The Why vs The How

Over the years, we've seen a number of patterns evolve within our customers on their projects. From observing these patterns, there are some common best practices we see our most successful customers always follow. One of those best practices is turning the focus from the “why” to the “how” of the customer 360.

09/10/2018

MDM Best Practices – Benefits of Starting Small

There are some common best practice we see our most successful customers always follow. When it comes to project management methodologies and approaches, one of the best practices we've seen is starting small and then building a solution up over time. Many companies make the mistake of doing the waterfall method and try to deliver a large, complex solution with a long runway. See a better way.