Saturday 24 January 2015

A stitch in time saves nine - How do I find the time? Explore and Derive Insights using InfoSphere MDM and Watson Explorer

Assume that you are a Customer Representative working for a broadband company.  Your company has installed IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management and you have a trusted view of all your customers.

You keep calling each customer regularly, requesting whether they want an increase in the quantity of data with a good speed, but hardly few of them agree.

How about having a system which will alert you of customers who go very close to the quantity of data they have subscribed for, and go more than that for a couple of times.  Wont they quickly agree and move to your plan?

Now how do you get to them?  The best way is to integrate the IBM MDM with IBM Watson Explorer.  With IBM MDM giving the trusted view of customers and Watson Explorer interacting with other sources to find more details about your customers, it would become easy to get a complete 360 degree view of your customers.  The analytical details provided by this integration would help you find the right time to convince the customers who require such a broadband plan.

The benefits that can be reaped by the IBM MDM integration with IBM Watson Explorer are many and details on the advantages and integration are clearly described in the below links.
Exploring Data Insights with IBM InfoSphere MDM and Watson Explorer
Access Data Patterns with IBM Watson Explorer
Building 360 degree Information Applications

Friday 23 January 2015

Master Data is within systems in my organization, how do I integrate this with a CRM on Cloud

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management and IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration come to help you here.

IBM Master Data Management provides your a single version of truth of your entities.  In essence, it helps you cleanse data and remove duplicate values, thereby maintaining a single record of the entities in your system.  Typically master data requires more privacy and is maintained in systems in your premises.

There are other software that are available over the internet as services (SaaS on the cloud).  There will be requirements wherein master data in the organization's premises, have to be used with data in cloud.  There has to be means through which this integration can take place. Data security is a key point of concern in such integrations.

IBM WebSphere Cast Iron can serve as a middleware between IBM MDM and SaaS applications.  There are proven implementations of IBM MDM with Salesforce.com, Netsuite, Workday and IBM Bluemix services using the IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration.

Links:
IBM InfoSphere MDM integration with SaaS applications using WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud
Master Data Management for SaaS Applications
Putting master data into Salesforce.com