Field Asset Services (FAS)

So the family is back from the annual Greek vacation (August) all happy and rejuvenated. I have started a short-term project with Field Asset Services (FAS) executing an Information Management Assessment which includes Master Data Management & Data Warehousing as well as helping out with the overall definition of the Enterprise Architecture Roadmap. Fun project and many familiar faces from prior project work.

Dell

I was hired as a Senior MDM Consultant/Architect by Dell in late 2008 under the Information Management & Architecture group to provide MDM expertise and consulting services. Under confidentiality and non-disclosure I am unable to provide any details about my engagement which completed in July of 2009 (yes, time again for the annual trip to Greece). What I can do is provide a summary of references I found while searching Google which provide the reader potentially relevant landscape information through existing public information.

September 2007 - a reference from Dell on Financial MDM initiative and the use of SOA on the Oracle site. http://www.oracle.com/appserver/business-intelligence/docs/financial-mdm-at-dell.pdf

2008 – a reference on The MDM Institute (Aaron Zornes) showing Dell as a customer of Initiate Systems.
http://www.tcdii.com/initiatesystemsidentityhub.html

December 2008 - a reference on Dell’s CDI initiative from the Gartner MDM Summit presented by John Miller and summarized by Jill Dyche http://www.beyenetwork.be/blogs/dyche/archives/2008/12/dell_does_mdm_r.php

June 2009 - a reference from Oracle in their MDM Executive brief showing Dell as a client. http://www.oracle.com/master-data-management/master-data-management-executive-brief.pdf

June 2009 – multiple recruiting site references for talent acquisition around Master Data Management Enablement and Data Services utilizing AquaLogic Service Bus - ALSB (now: Oracle Service Bus - OSB) and Aqualogic Data Services Platform - ALDSP (now: Oracle Data Services Integrator - ODSI)
http://jobs.monsterindia.com/details/6991360.html http://jobs.monsterindia.com/details/7103559.html?sig=js-1-e8a98fc9f01d868eec37e666f84bf6cf-1 http://www.recruit.net/jobs/1243504796491/ http://www.careerenclave.com/jobs/index.php?topic=43392.msg%msg_id%

I thank everyone at Dell for the project opportunity and worthwhile experience. Our paths might cross again in the future since the Austin MDM market is not THAT large ;-).