Welcome to the Silver Creek resource center where you can find in-depth information about standardizing, integrating, enriching, repurposing, and governing data.
Bloor Research: Data Mastering Case Studies - Part 2
This second companion piece to the independent white paper, Data Mastering: An 80/20 Solution for MDM from Bloor Research, is a real-world manufacturing case study that illustrates the importance of Data Mastering and how it drives significant value as an enabler of enterprise-wide data integration, data quality and standards enforcement.
Forrester Research - Trends 2009: Master Data Management
Forrester Research recently released some new survey results that discuss how the changing economic environment has not dampened the demand for MDM, data quality, and data governance technology.
Ventana Research Benchmark Report: PIM - Improving the Value of Product Data in the Enterprise and the Global Supply Chain
Ventana Research recently conducted a survey that provides insights into how organizations plan to cope with the demands to process more product content and data more effectively and turn it into actionable information.
Forrester Research Report: Warning: Don’t Assume Your Business Processes Use Master Data
Forrester Research recently released a new white paper that discusses why MDM and BPM should be aligned, process modeling and data modeling should be interrelated and data governance and process governance should be on similar, integrated tracks.
Business Trends Quarterly Expert Panel: The Politics of Data & Effective Governance
Business Trends Quarterly magazine recently recorded a new podcast with a panel of experts that discusses new strategies and tactics for effective data governance in today’s highly charged political business environment. Download the transcript here.
Forrester Research: It's Time To Revisit Product Information Management (PIM)
This white paper from Forrester Research discusses the importance of data quality for PIM and Product MDM and why one company holds a ‘virtual monopoly’ in product data quality.
The Information Difference: The State of Data Quality Today
This July 2009 research study is aimed at gaining deeper insight into the views of businesses regarding their current or planned data quality initiatives.
Bloor Research: 2009 Data Cleansing Market Update
The 2009 Data Cleansing Market Update from Bloor Research delivers some very useful insights into the data quality market and which vendor’s product is best for each data type.
Webcast: The Hidden Costs of Great Search (And How to Reduce It)
A survey of Endeca customer revealed that 76% stated that the main barriers to deploying more search dimensions is the difficulty in stadardizing and integrating product data. Through this webcast, you will learn how a large retailer reduced these 'hidden costs' through Automated Product Data Mastering, standardizing tens of thousands of product records to “go-live” in 10 weeks. In addition, you will see a demonstration of how this solution integrates directly with Endeca and can cut the cost of deployment and ongoing operations by up to 75% while improving the end-user search experience.
Automated Data Mastering Changes the MDM Paradigm: A Foundational Step to Deliver Rapid Value
In this white paper, MDM guru David discusses the fact the real value of MDM is in making data usable as quickly as possible. While conventional MDM projects are expensive and can take years to complete, this document discusses how a new alternative, Data Mastering not only delivers immediate business value by delivering higher quality, more consistent data for use in any operational system, but also delivers on the critical first step in the overall MDM journey.
TDWI Best Practices Report: Operational Data Integration - A New Frontier for Data Management
TDWI recently released a new white paper that reports on the current state of Operational Data Integration (OpDI), why it has grown in importance by 30% over the last three years, and where it is going. The report drills into the many facets of OpDI and identifies benefits, common pitfalls, and best practices of starting and sustaining an OpDI program based on survey results and end-user stories.
Bloor Research: Data Mastering Case Studies - Part 1
This companion piece to the independent white paper, Data Mastering: An 80/20 Solution for MDM from Bloor Research illustrates through real-world case studies the importance of Data Mastering and that “data mastering tools are a vital aspect of the infrastructure that controls and manages data in the enterprise.”
Data Mastering: An 80/20 Solution for MDM
This independent white paper from Bloor Research delivers some very useful insights into how companies implementing a Master Data Management (MDM) program can get 80% of the value of MDM at 20% of the cost through Data Mastering.
Data Mastering: The First Step and Fastest Path to MDM
An MDM strategy is made up of many important pieces and one of the first and possibly the most critical is Data Mastering – getting the data right in the first place. In this 45 minute webinar, Bill Swanton, VP of Research at AMR Research describes the value of MDM and where to start with an MDM Strategy, especially in a down economy. Phil Love, Manager of Data Quality at Emerson described how a global manufacturer is applying semantic-based Data Mastering technologies to drive data standards across their enterprise to improve the operational efficiency of legacy systems while pursuing their broader MDM vision.
Silver Creek Accelerates Product Data Integration
TDWI article by Stephen Swoyer on Silver Creek Systems' ability to solve the issues surrounding the "complicated world of product data quality."
Baseline Magazine Case Study: Going for the Gold Standard
Building an item master database that delivers standardization across disparate systems and data sources significantly reduced costs and improved services for Premier Purchasing Partners’ members.
Data Governance Survey: Adoption of Data Governance by Business
This survey delivers some useful facts and insights into the drivers, road blocks and implementation challenges faced by organizations adopting a governance program.
ARC White Paper: Data Quality Management for Manufacturing Businesses
ARC Advisory Group recently released an independent white paper that delivers some very useful insights into manufacturing’s growing information crisis.This document discusses the fact that poor data quality “permeates” all manufacturing systems and ignoring the issues could have a devastating financial impact on manufacturers of all sizes. In addition, this document provides insights into opportunities for increasing data quality, roadmaps for data quality solutions, and strategies for data quality in manufacturing.
TDWI Monograph: The Unique Requirements of Product Data Quality
This monograph from The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI) delivers some useful insights into the challenges and best practices required for successful data quality programs. Author Philip Russom, senior manager of research and services at TDWI, makes the case that data quality has traditionally focused on customer data and the inclination to apply the same techniques to other data types can compromise data quality integrity.
Seybold Group Case Study: Product Information Drives Sales
This new white paper from the Patricia Seybold Group delivers some very useful insights into the search, merchandising effectiveness, and user experience challenges faced by retail/e-commerce companies today. The study discusses the importance of consistent, complete, and well-organized product information in effective merchandizing ― and reveals the impact of poor product information on sales.
Bloor Research: Key Elements of Master Data Management
This just released white paper from Bloor Research delivers some very useful insights into the needs, practices, and challenges faced by companies implementing a Master Data Management (MDM) program. Recommendations are offered based on customer experiences and industry best practices.
"Changing the Econonomics of Product Data Integration"
DM Review magazine presents a product review of the DataLens System by leading healthcare company.
Best Practices for Product Data Solutions
TDWI audio interview of Silver Creek Systems' CEO and President Barbara Mowry about best practices for product data solutions
Great E-commerce Needs Great Product Data
This white paper shows how transforming unstructured product information into clean, reliable, consistent and well-structured information can deliver higher conversion rates, larger shopping carts, and increased margins.
Solution Spotlight: Automating Information Supply Chains
Information supply chains choked with incomplete or inaccurate data make it difficult to respond quickly to business change or exploit sales opportunities. Learn how to solve these problems with this report.
Data Service Applications: The Missing Link in Information Supply Chain Automation
New technology: Data Service Applications are a breakthrough approach to automating Information Supply Chains, eliminate the need for costly workarounds and provide the ability to serve up reliable, complete product information in the right form - on demand.
Automating Product Data Quality for Trouble-Free PIM-MDM
Many PIM and MDM projects struggle daily to load, integrate and repurpose product data. New semantically-savvy technologies finally automate these essential processes, ensure high quality product data, and dramatically improve the odds of successful PIM and MDM deployments.
Product Information Management: Forcing the Second Wave of Data Quality
To meet the tough challenges posed by product data, new Data Quality solutions will leverage semantic technology, extending traditional syntax tools which were originally developed for less complex data, such as customer data.
The Hidden Challenge of PIM-MDM
As the pressure for supply chain integration intensifies, both PIM and semantic-based product data quality solutions will become an accepted part of the enterprise landscape. Solutions that automate Product Data Quality are the Key to maximizing Product Information Management Performance.
5 Steps to Eliminating Product Data Bottlenecks in PIM-MDM
Don't miss this critical 2-page primer for ensuring optimum PIM-MDM performance.
Discovering the Information Supply Chain
Silver Creek Systems CEO Barbara Mowry explains the critical need to keep Information Supply Chains moving at peak performance in order to remain competitive in today's marketplace.
Eliminating Product Data "Breakage" in the Information Supply Chain
An efficient Information Supply Chain is critical to serving up relevant and powerful online searches, driving conversions and increasing revenues. This paper explores the dangers of ignoring the bottlenecks product information cause within your Information Supply Chain.
Semantic Integration: Tapping the Full Potential of Enterprise Data
The Growing Externalization of Business Processes Requires the Discovery of Meaning in Data
By Neil Raden, Principal of HB Research
The trend to externalize enterprise data continues unabated, creating a swarm of data integration problems that simply don't exist within the firewall. Traditional approaches are fading, and only semantic integration seems up to the new challenge.
Data Usability in Enterprise Data Integration: The Need for Semantic Translation Technologies in Creating Usable Data
By Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D., and president of Intelligent Solutions Inc
Existing technologies have a critical gap in their ability to reconcile disparate data from disparate sources. This white paper discusses those limitations and an alternate approach to Semantic Translation for enterprise-wide Data Usability.
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