• precisely-news
• Gartner

Data integrity leader noted for its impressive growth in revenue and market share in Gartner's Market Share Analysis reports for Data Management Software and Data Integration categories

Master Data Management partner, Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, has been recognized by Gartner in the latest Market Share Analysis for Data Management Software (Excluding DBMS), Worldwide (subscription required) as the fifth highest ranked vendor by revenue in 2021, placing it higher than other industry heavyweights including Oracle and Microsoft. 

The report additionally highlighted that Precisely experienced the highest growth among the top five vendors, with the successful acquisitions of Winshuttle and Infogix, as well as continued growth in both data integration and data quality. 

"We were excited by the synergies brought by Precisely's acquisition of Infogix announced last year," said Gary Allemann, Managing Director at Master Data Management. "This report vindicates our view that the combined offering presents a compelling capability for enterprise clients that want to get their data right."

“At Precisely, we’re on a mission to empower businesses to make better decisions based on trusted data,” said Eric Yau, Precisely Chief Operating Officer. “It’s great to see the tremendous impact we’re making in the market. We continue to make strategic investments in our product portfolio, strategic services, customer support and tech partnerships to ultimately make our customers successful.” 

The top five listing follows the news of Gartner recognizing Precisely as a top three vendor for data integration software. The latest Market Share Analysis for Data Integration (excluding DBMS) Worldwide  (subscription required) highlighted the Precisely portfolio for its suitability in supporting customers with data modernization initiatives – increasingly important as businesses seek to move data from traditional infrastructure into cloud-based environments. It additionally praised the Precisely Data Integrity Suite as being a “force multiplier” for growth in the data integration market. 

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Masterdata and Logicle Analytics have entered into a partnership to empower data adoption with the LDIS+ Analytics Impact Framework™, a systemic evaluation of your company’s data culture and analytics maturity, and a recommendation engine for realising your full analytics potential.

Master Data Management, the African specialist in data integrity, and Logicle Analytics, specialists in data culture and creators of the LDIS+ Analytics Framework have entered into an agreement to offer the data culture assessment and recommendation engine into the African market.

“As Chairman of Logicle Analytics and our sister company, the JNO Accelerator, we are excited about commercially partnering with Master Data Management across Africa”, said John Osland, Chairman of Logicle Analytics.

The LDIS+ has been developed out of the doctoral research of Logicle Analytics founder and CEO, Dr Jonathan Fowler, who recognised that data culture is poorly understood in most large organisations.

At the root of the problem is the belief that culture is a singular concept, not plural. This “tick box” approach can lead to implementation hurdles on any cross-functional program.

“In practise, my research shows that most organisations have multiple competing cultures, depending on the goals and vision of key stakeholders and departments,” said Fowler. “Glossing over these sub-cultures means that we miss an opportunity to engage all the key stakeholders or business areas in any data management implementation – leaving some stakeholders disengaged, underserved, and disappointed.”

The LDIS+ provides a cost-effective opportunity to understand and engage each key stakeholder and area based on their unique Analytics Personality Type, or APTitude™.

4 APTitudes

Any organisation will display attributes of four distinct culture types: Collaborative, Creative, Competitive, and Controlling.

While a dominant culture will typically become apparent, the subcultures of different areas must be taken into account to ensure buy-in across the enterprise. Without this buy-in, misalignment may occur in one or more ways – leading to delays, resistance and, even, project failure.

The LDIS+ assessment is highly automated meaning that the assessment can quickly identify the culture of tens of thousands of employees to provide both individual and aggregated views of how data is seen, used, and interpreted across an enterprise. The assessment includes a set of recommendations on how to bring these different cultures together, for maximum engagement.

Understanding the business change requirements

The LDIS+ complements Masterdata’s existing Data Practises gap assessment, which also focuses on soft skills, by providing a deep dive into organisational subcultures.

“It has been our experience that soft skills are far more critical to data management success than technology,” said Gary Allemann, MD at Master Data Management. “The LDIS+ allows organisations to position data management capabilities differently depending on the vision and preferred approach of each business unit or division – increasing stakeholder engagement and reducing project risks.”

Strategic data projects are typically multiyear investments of time and commitment and can run into tens or even hundreds of millions of Rands. Making the upfront investment in understanding and engaging your data subcultures can be the difference between ROI or a costly failure.

To learn more, call +27114854856

• EDM Council
• CDMC
• elearningcurve news

Master Data Management partner, eLearningCurve, is pleased to announce the Launch of a new CDMC training course and certification, developed in partnership with the EDM Council. The course is geared towards anyone impacted by cloud migration and adoption, or interested in understanding the capabilities, challenges and opportunities offered by cloud data management.

The Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) Framework is the industry-standard, best practice framework for the management and control of sensitive and important data in cloud, multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments. CDMC provides organizations with the ability to assess their current state cloud data management capabilities and identify gaps for remediation. It also enables cloud service and technology providers to audit and certify that their products and services support and automate key controls for the control of sensitive data in cloud environments.

The CDMC course provides a comprehensive perspective on capabilities needed to manage and control data at scale in cloud environments. The curriculum is organized into six core components covering 37 essential data management capabilities and 14 key controls. Each capability is supported by a series of requirement statements including specific objectives, implementation advice, artefacts and scoring guidance that enables the evaluation of cloud data management initiatives.

 Your instructors for this course are:
• Colin Gibson – Senior Advisor, EDM Council
• John Bottega, President, EDM Council
• Rob Wentz – KPMG
• Chris Grote – Atlan
• Stuart Woodward – Ortecha
• Jubair Patel – Microsoft
• Emmanuel Raymond – TietoEvry
• Terry Hedin – London Stock Exchange Group

You will learn:
• A comprehensive understanding of Cloud Data Management best practices
• The objectives and key considerations of each of the detailed sub-capabilities
• The drivers and automation opportunities associated with each of the key controls
• Use cases for the framework, including its use in assessment and certification
• The relationship between CDMC and the EDM Council’s DCAM framework
• The resources that are available to support the adoption and use of CDMC

The course is accompanied by an examination which tests your knowledge and understanding of basic concepts, principles, and terminology of the CDMC framework., and candidates that pass the examination, with a score of 70%, will achieve CDMC certification.

• data catalog
• Precisely
• analyst report

Master Data Management partner, Precisely, has been named a leader for data catalogue software by the 2022 IDC Marketscape report

Today's large companies deal with complex data landscapes comprising hundreds, or even thousands of applications and tens of thousands of datasets. Aberdeen Research finds that most environments are growing by more than 30% per annum and are becoming increasingly diverse - with data sets coming from source systems, data warehouses and other on-premise processing engines, reporting tools and the cloud.

Traditional, IT-centric data catalogues are implemented to give a centralised view of these complex environments. However, these IT-centric catalogues often fail to meet the needs of business users - such as master data stewards, data scientists and decision-makers - as they failed to provide business context, made it difficult to find and understand data without a deep technical understanding, and were difficult to configure and adapt to additional business-centric use cases such as finding data for analytics, improving data quality, managing data privacy and governing reference and master data.

Precisely's modern, cloud-native catalogue and data governance platform provide actionable intelligence to support a range of business use cases to improve data trust. Precisely’s comprehensive solution ensures business and IT teams have accurate and robust insights into critical data’s meaning, location, and data quality.

Precisely's business-first approach has led to the platform being positioned as a leader in the 2022 IDC Marketscape report: Data Catalog Software 2022 Vendor Assessment. According to the report, Precisely should be considered “when looking for a business-focused solution with integrated data catalog, data quality, and data integration capabilities.”

Key differentiators of Precisely’s business-first data catalogue include:

• Documenting ROI by connecting business initiatives with critical assets and data management capabilities
• Building trust with dynamic data governance and quality metrics linked to business outcomes
• Ramping up onboard and adoption with flexible metamodel and workflows
• Optimizing insights into data pipelines, lineage, and observability

 Get your copy of the IDC report excerpt to uncover more about how Precisely’s business-first data catalogue can help you on the road to data integrity.