Master Data Management – Critical for Information Governance
Filed under: Functionalilty / Business Scenarios
As Gartner closed off their London MDM Summit earlier in February and prepares for the upcoming Los Angeles Summit in April, it becomes apparent that MDM is crucial for achieving effective information governance. Many organisations face daily challenges with the management of data across multiple companies, countries, languages and diverse business processes. Implementing an MDM [...]
SAP Middleware – Is it essential?
The short answer – Yes, it is. Most SAP implementations contain an R/3 or ECC system. Many contain a CRM or SRM system. The term Middleware is an IT-wide concept that in SAP landscapes relates to how SAP communicates between its own systems, as well as with non-SAP systems. SAP Middleware incorporates the following communication [...]
Freelance consulting risks – Finding clients who pay
I’ve had the unfortunate experience of dealing with a handful of customers who have either gone bankrupt before being able to pay or have severely delayed outstanding payments. In one extreme situation a group of us, all independent consultants, were paying $10,000 to $15,000 per month in travel expenses and waiting an average of 4 [...]
Giving power back to the user
The strange thing about enterprise software is that business users make a strong case to acquire it, and once it’s bought and implemented they don’t have much say in how it evolves. At least that was the way things tended to play out. Winshuttle has been providing business users with the key to reclaim that [...]



