My father taught me a long time ago: Don’t pound nails with a screwdriver. Some version of this lesson has been taught to every child, mostly because we were busy wrecking our fathers’ tools by using them in ways that… Read More »There is No Single Universal PIM
Why Data Remediation Projects Fail Whenever someone writes an analysis of why a product data project failed, the primary reason they give is that the tool failed to deliver on expectations. Having been in the product data space for 2… Read More »Why Data Remediation Projects Fail
As I stated in our last blog, “Data As An Asset > Data As An Expense“, there is an investment required in data to both create and maintain that data as one of your company’s most valuable assets. In product… Read More »The Importance of Mutual Exclusivity and Data Collection Fatigue
The Hidden Costs of Unnecessary Attributes In the increasingly competitive landscape of e-commerce and retail, product attribute management plays a pivotal role in defining the success of product taxonomies. One of the key dilemmas that data model owners and category… Read More »The Hidden Costs of Unnecessary Attributes
During almost every project there comes a point where you need to cleanse your existing data to make it work with a new system. It is simply an element of how these projects work. You install or update a software… Read More »The Truths About Data Remediation