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Profisee MDM

The Council Signs, the Release Ships

A governance council approves; it rarely proposes and never builds. Its yes reaches Profisee through the enterprise's own release process, not through Profisee's workflow engine, and its evidence comes back as release notes and a health report.

Jeffrey Shabel · November 3, 2026

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General MDM

The Same Fight

More governance policy will be enforced by the systems themselves. That will not end the argument about adoption, or simply move it upstream: it is the same argument about who fixes the record and who decides what it should be, held at the rule and the exception instead of in the meeting.

Jeffrey Shabel · November 2, 2026

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AI + BI

Just a Tool: The One AI Myth Worth Naming, and What Is True Instead

The one AI myth worth naming is that it will end everyone's job. What the evidence says, what is true instead for natural-language query on master data (garbage in, garbage out; people still frame the question and agree the definitions), where the practitioner's own answer goes too far, and what…

Jeffrey Shabel · October 29, 2026

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MDM + AI

Heads Up: The Data Steward's Job After the Routine Work Goes

When the master data system first automates a steward's routine work, the tricky residue takes over the week and time opens up for problems nobody could chase before. AI should repeat that pattern. What it means for skills, for headcount, and for the experience it frees.

Jeffrey Shabel · October 28, 2026

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General MDM

Give the Council Something to Decide

A governance council is usually built on its charter. It lasts on two things the charter cannot supply: a room of people who can actually decide, and a steady supply of decisions it is required to make.

Jeffrey Shabel · October 26, 2026

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Enterprise Data Strategy

The Problem Picks the Sponsor, and the Budget Sets the Road

A data roadmap that gets funded starts with the problems, not the vision: the problems find the sponsor, the sponsor draws the road, and the budget behind it sets how far it runs. In the current market master data rides that road as part of making data ready for AI, and an honest playbook says so.

Jeffrey Shabel · October 23, 2026

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