Dave Wallis on master data-the 'elephant in the room!'

摘要

Dave Wallis, OFS-Portal's EAME representative gave a keynote address to IQPC's 3rd Annual Oil and Gas Procurement Summit in Abu Dhabi last month on the subject of master data management (MDM) in upstream e-business. Wallis described MDM as 'the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about!' But for companies that want to reap the full benefits of e-commerce, MDM is an essential ingredient of 'data hungry, rich catalogues.' The need for quality master data is increasingly felt as data volumes rise at between 30 to 60% per year.