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Quelles typologies de data hub MDM ?

Different types of data hub for MDM (Master Data Management)

Far from being a trivial matter for a business, implementing a single master data repository poses significant technical and organisational challenges. The most common of these include: The difficulty in defining a single model…
Quels enjeux et outils pour la gouvernance de données ?

Which toolkit best supports implementation of your organisation’s data governance?

Decision-makers often wish to put a data governance strategy in place. However, the next step is to determine how to implement such a strategy and which data governance toolkit to use. The functional rules, control over data traffic and the…
Qu’est-ce-que le Data Lifecycle Management ?

Data Lifecycle Management, or how to keep control over each stage in data processing

Adopting a true data governance policy is no longer an optional matter for any organisation. The reliability of processes is at stake, along with the performance of the entire IS, and strategic analysis of business activities.Such governance…
Comment superviser ses flux de données ?

Supervising your data traffic to ensure error-free movement of data around the Information System

Controlled circulation of data around any information system is nowadays crucial to correctly supply data to the business lines, applications and processes that are the beating heart of any company's activities. In response to the multitude…
Master Data Clients pour les Directions Marketing

MDM to the rescue of Marketing departments and customer master data

In these days of big data, and as Marketing departments are shifting towards data-driven strategies, MDM (Master Data Management) systems have become absolutely essential to their success, given the extent to which customer-related data sources…
Comment mettre en place une solution de data management ?

Interview: Two matching success stories about MDM (Master Data Management) implementations

Businesses are by now fully aware of the control issues surrounding master data and data quality. However, initiating a transformation and implementing MDM projects always and still gives rise to questions about methods, and requires a degree…
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What is the right approach and right SCV (Single Customer View) to underpin a customer-centric strategy?

The SCV and its central role in customer data quality Providing genuine continuity throughout the customer journey is now essential, and the quality of the experience really is a potent differentiating factor. And for customers, using different…
Choose BPM solution

Choosing your BPM solution Business Process Management

While Business Process Management is primarily itself a process, it requires technological resources making it possible to both model business processes in detail and then to implement them organisationally within the whole business and…
Comment garantir un traitement des données efficient ?

The importance of seeing the full picture to effectively tackle data processing

Data processing is frequently reduced to data cleansing and then integration, but doing so means an incomplete picture of the process is being used. To fully exploit data, the entire data lifecycle has to be considered. Carefully managing each…
Comment choisir le meilleur logiciel BPM ?

Managing your processes to meet the challenges posed by both business and data: how to choose the best BPM software for your organisation

How to choose the BPM (Business Process Management) software best suited to your organisation without overlooking any key aspects ? How can BPM be summarised ? There are three functions essential to process management that form the basis…
Choisir d’implémenter un portail fournisseur 
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Implementing a supplier management portal for faster product listing… and much more!

Product listing: a major issue for retailers With increasing numbers of product ranges, listing has become a sensitive area in communication between a business and its suppliers. But ever-changing product lines are not the only factor…
Développer son portail achat

Build a custom e-Procurement platform integrated with all business departments

E-procurement platforms meet business needs of both an operational and a strategic nature In a similar vein to supplier selection, a procurement platform provides a clear picture of procurement and decision-making processes. The system facilitates…
Maîtriser ses API

Using an API gateway to standardise the exposure of your data

Expose data more quickly, but always retain control Data interchange between business partners is increasingly necessary. As the volume of data exchanged shoots upwards, the need for standardisation becomes more pressing.Making data available…
PIM DAM : intégration des solutions

Designing your architecture to allow PIM and DAM to cohabit

As with PIM (Product Information Management) and MDM (Master Data Management), there is a long-standing rivalry between PIM and DAM (Data Asset Management). If the two could be made to cohabit peacefully, what sort of IS architecture would…
Comment urbaniser son Système d’information hybride ?

Information system re-engineering, a key factor in hybrid cloud IS architecture

While talk of migrating to the cloud is on everyone's lips, the majority of small businesses and mid-caps still run hybrid infrastructures, a mixture of cloud and on-site hosting. For these organisations, a gradual transition is often the…
Pourquoi intégrer ses données d’entreprise ?

Data integration, a vital aspect when building an effective information system

Data integration is not an end in itself, of course. However, many decision-makers postpone making any changes. Integration, which can be defined as the pooling and transformation of data from multiple sources with a view to exploiting it more…
Interopérabilité SI : témoignage autour du projet de Paredes

Supporting Paredes’ transformation objectives while delivering interoperability within the IS

Paredes revolutionised the hygiene sector in France by creating the single-use market. For more than seven decades, this 650-strong company has been manufacturing and distributing innovative hygiene products and services, and personal protective…
Exemples d’optimisation continue SaaS des processus

The benefits of process optimisation for business growth

One of any manager’s main objectives is obviously to support the growth of the business. In an economy in a state of perpetual change, a business must be able to adapt quickly and optimise how its existing structures operate, by diversifying…
Plateforme applicative métier : bénéfices et méthodes

The benefits of an application platform designed to suit the daily work of business staff

While interest in technological innovations in application platforms is usually keen, there is often insufficient emphasis placed on ease of use and user-friendly design. However, these are crucial aspects. Successful digital transformation…
La digitalisation ou numérisation des processus

Interview: In the vast majority of cases, process digitalisation should be kept simple and pragmatic

In organisations, processes are everything. While process optimisation is nothing new, many processes are still not computerised and managed efficiently. Proper process performance accordingly relies on the goodwill of all concerned to correctly…
Processus DSI : services IT

How to help IT departments to deliver quality services ?

Digital transformation has obliged IT teams to work much more closely with their business users, as the latter increasingly become the driving force behind new IT projects in companies. IT departments have accordingly started to make major…
API Management et portail API : atouts et limites

To make a success of opening up an information system, both the benefits and the limitations of API Management need to be fully understood

Business transformation is increasingly based on developing value chains with the wider ecosystem. More and more attention is being paid in this regard to APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and their role in enabling applications to…
Architecture du Système d’Information

Information system architecture, from methodology to implementation tools

With their increasingly critical role in businesses, information systems have become significantly more complex in recent years, with the successive additions of yet more applications, widespread use of SaaS, point-to-point interfaces, etc. It…

What are the 4 key stages in data quality assurance?

Data quality assurance: obvious and vital work All business processes are based on data nowadays, and the same applies to project analysis and management. Data-driven strategies are becoming the norm; data quality assurance is therefore…
MDM vs PIM : différences des logiciels

Data’s omnipresence and choosing between MDM and PIM

The omnipresence of data in all areas of corporate strategy nowadays has to be acknowledged, and with it the need to install Master Data Management (MDM) or Product Information Management (PIM) systems to take full advantage. The adage about…
Quelles causes pour les silos de données ?

Resolving the issue of data silos within a business

Data silos are still a fact of life for very many organisations. Fragmented by the practices employed by various departments, and the vast volumes of data collected, this data is nonetheless of strategic value to the business. It is essential…
Moteur de Règles métiers BRMS : gestion et simplifications

How to manage and simplify complex business rules and processes to increase your agility

To increase your agility, you need to shorten decision-making cycles and automate business processes as much as possible.It is also a route to improving your quality of service, ensuring SLAs are met. However, when working on optimising business…
Environnement SAP et système d’information agile

SAP customers: How give some agility back to an information system

A great many companies, whatever their sector of economic activity (manufacturing, services, retail, engineering, etc.), have an IT architecture that is based on SAP with a galaxy of other applications orbiting around it. This disparate collection…

Six observations that should make you think about implementing an API Management solution

From the theory... API Management strengthens value chains with your partners, customers and suppliers... … to the practice Observation 1 « More and more of our customers and partners are asking to access our services and…
Getting ERP and WMS systems to communicate

ERP and WMS: introducing permanent communication between two key corporate systems

ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and WMS (Warehouse Management System) both meet crucial requirements, and each fits neatly with the other. Data often needs to be consolidated between the grassroots level and overviews at a higher level to…
Data Steward tools

The data steward, a lynchpin in data governance

The data steward, a lynchpin in data governance The amount of data collected by businesses is constantly expanding, and the need to process it likewise. Data-related professions are therefore of unprecedented importance, all the more so…
Comment construire une stratégie APIM ?
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The top 8 questions when rolling out an integration strategy (ESB/APIM) with your ecosystem 

The concept of the extended enterprise is based on the importance of cooperation between all parties involved in a value chain (e.g. co-design of products, assembly of complex systems, supply chain, suppliers/distributors, etc.). Other concepts…