Weaving Intelligence
Enterprise Data Governance
Master data sits at the floor of every governance framework, described as foundational, and no council ever voted it there. A proposal, with the history that argues for it: a framework that names master data as foundational must name the seat that signs each enterprise definition inside it, and…
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What agentic AI changes about trusted master data is, ideally, nothing about the standard. The bill and the packaging move, and the maturity-ladder gate most teams reach for should give way to one that asks what a change would cost to undo.
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Both labels sort AI-enhanced master data management by where its number sits in a ledger. The question that decides the risk is whether the business could still switch it off, and who sets the price, the calendar and the model's behaviour once it could not.
Read more →Profisee MDM
Part one of a Profisee build that contains no configuration: five artifacts that have to exist before the first domain loads, and what each one costs to make. Sponsorship is allocated rather than won in flight, and the unbounded cost of an un-merge is the time before anyone notices.
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Executive sponsorship as a structure you can inspect this week: which budget line the money came from, where the sponsor's authority ends, and why a coalition of sponsors turns an absent sponsor into a changed one. Each section stands on its own, with the operating record from practice underneath.
Read more →Enterprise Data Strategy
The enterprise data strategy document is a genuinely new artifact, and most writing about it narrates the same tidy maturity curve — five stages, a rising arrow, an organisation moving deliberately from siloed to strategic. Marcus B. argues that almost nobody walked that arrow. The functions…
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Jordan M. has spent about a decade saying that a number never changed anybody's mind. This is the essay where he goes looking for the place that claim fails — and finds it three times, in sources he had not read carefully enough, none of them hostile.
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Almost everyone costing an AI-augmented master data management program right now is costing something they have not yet run — and Maya R. starts there rather than hiding it. Her playbook builds the case out of the two things you can actually check before you spend: the mechanism and the price.…
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Almost every MDM business case ever written was reverse-engineered from a demo — and a demo is honest about what it is. It shows you the capability of the product; the fit between that capability and your business is the part somebody still has to build. Isabel B. looks back at how we justified an…
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In Weaving Intelligence's Monday piece opening the week, Elias K. traces two decades of the enterprise master data management business case — how the argument shifted from Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, to hard-dollar data-quality ROI, to business-outcome capability, and now to "AI-ready data." His…
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