Master Data Management Summit 2009. October 5-7, Los Angeles, CA. Hyatt Regency Century Plaza. gartner.com/us/mdm Register Now Agenda Sponsors Summit Website Register Now Agenda Sponsors Summit Website
Thanks to you many of you who took the time to help support the development of this year’s agenda by participating in our pre-event survey; we had nearly twice as many responses this year – here are some of the key findings.

2008 MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT FEEDBACK / 2009 KEY SURVEY FINDINGS

94% of last year’s MDM Summit attendees would recommend this event to a colleague.

Most valuable aspects of the 2008 MDM Summit:

  • How To: Getting a better understanding of how we should be organized to do MDM. This is valuable because we are struggling with the whats, whos, why and whens.
  • Case Studies: Hearing "real-life" how companies are managing MDM and issues they've encountered.
  • Market Trends: Trends & how things are shaping up in the MDM world
  • Networking: Ability to listen and share real world experiences.
  • Access: Access to experts, participants, vendors all in one place.

Ranking of the primary business drivers of current MDM plans/initiatives:

Business Drivers

Highest Priority

Second Highest Priority

Third Highest Priority

Cost Optimization & Efficiencies

43.50%

44.50%

12.80%

Compliance & Risk Management

29.90%

31.20%

37.90%

Revenue & Profit Growth

26.50%

24.30%

49.10%

Topics with highest level of interest for this year’s Summit:

Best Practices and Strategy Topics
Extremely Interested
Interested
Somewhat Interested
No Interest
Creating a Vision and Strategy for MDM
38%
41%
16%
5%
How do I approach building and managing an MDM initiative
26%
44%
21%
8%
What is governance of master data, and how do we make it work in our business?
26%
43%
22%
8%
How do I measure success of our MDM effort?
25%
43%
21%
9%
MDM of Customer Data, Customer Data Integration (CDI) or single view of the customer
25%
37%
26%
11%
The role of MDM in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing?
24%
44%
22%
9%
Data Quality stewardship, including roles and responsibilities
23%
40%
26%
9%
MDM Scenario - Where is MDM going in the future?
22%
50%
20%
6%
Technology Topics
Extremely Interested
Interested
Somewhat Interested
No Interest
Enterprise Information Architecture and its relationship to MDM
27%
39%
24%
9%
Data Warehousing & BI convergence with MDM
27%
40%
25%
8%
Managing and mastering metadata and master data together
23%
42%
23%
11%
Analytical MDM Use Cases
23%
46%
21%
9%
MDM of Customer Data Technology
22%
41%
24%
12%
Operational MDM Use Cases
21%
46%
23%
9%
Data Quality Tools and Technogloies
20%
47%
25%
8%
Data Integration Tools and Technologies
19%
47%
25%
8%
SOA & Data Services convergence with MDM
19%
36%
33%
12%
Adoption of Performance Management across the enterprise by aligning master data across business applications and business intelligence
18%
41%
28%
12%
MDM and Application Development
18%
42%
28%
11%
MDM of Product Data Technology
16%
38%
30%
15%
Enterprise Content Management convergence with MDM
16%
39%
31%
14%
Global Data Synchronization/Information Exchanges
15%
36%
31%
17%
Semantic Technologies
8%
34%
38%
19%

To learn more about the 2009 Gartner Master Data Management Summit visit gartner.com/us/mdm

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