The data moved faster, shared wider, cost more — and still meant nothing agreed.
Ironic subject line on file: “Enterprise Achieves Real-Time Delivery Of The Undefined”
This edition follows the data as it travels. A master-data quadrant returns to chart a single view that was never finished. A mandate compels you to share connected-product data you never reconciled internally. A clean room audits an exchange whose privacy ships off by default. A schema registry blocks a breaking change but cannot name who approved it. And the storage that was always 'cheap' sent an invoice. Each advance moved the data — faster, wider, dearer — and left the same thing where it was: the owner of its meaning, unassigned.
The Master Data Quadrant Returns After a Four-Year Sabbatical
Gartner brings back its MDM map. The single view it charts has been under construction the whole time.
The Company That Sells the Single Source Becomes a Row in Someone Else's
Salesforce closed its purchase of Informatica. The master-data vendor is now master data.
Brussels Made You Share the Data. It Did Not Make You Define It
A right to access connected-product data arrives before anyone agrees what the fields mean.
The Clean Room Is Not a Room, and It Does Not Clean
A privacy-enhancing technology whose privacy is, by default, off.
Who Owns the Event Definition? The Registry Knows; the Org Doesn't
A compatibility check can block a breaking change. It can't name who's allowed to make one.
The Schema History Topic Remembers What Nobody Wrote Down
Debezium 3.0 ships a connector that refuses to guess. The org still guesses.
FinOps for Data: The Bill Was Always Going to Arrive
Consumption pricing was a feature until the invoice became the strategy.
"Storage Is Cheap" Was a Loan, Not a Strategy
The keep-everything reflex met a hard-drive shortage, and the reality tax came due.
Watch which of these gets an owner's name attached — and which just gets a wider pipe and a bigger bill.