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Implementing ON EBX: A Technical Blueprint for Customer MDM

A working blueprint for customer MDM on EBX: how to use the model-driven core to your advantage, choose persistence mode table by table, design a party model that survives republication, place enrichment where it belongs in the pipeline, configure a decision tree a data owner can defend, measure the match against a labelled set, set a trust hierarchy that makes steward decisions stick, and publish mastered data downstream through replication and generated data services.

Aug 25, 2026 57 min read

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Latest · Data Architecture & Engineering

Databricks or Snowflake for MDM Workloads: An Architecture Comparison

Master data management is not one workload — it is five, and they pull in opposite directions. A 2026 look at where Databricks and Snowflake each earn the work, and the two decision points that actually settle the architecture.

Aug 23, 2026 17 min read

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Latest · Technical Papers

Reltio Implementation Best Practices: A Technical Blueprint for Multidomain MDM That Holds Up in Production

A working blueprint for Reltio programmes: how to set tenant topology and a promotion path, treat the L3 as a product rather than a document, load before you match, design and measure match rules against a labelled golden set, keep survivorship honest, extend without regret, and prove the platform holds under real API limits.

Aug 20, 2026 42 min read

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Technical Papers

Modernizing Informatica Product 360: A Technical Blueprint for Moving P360 On-Premise to SaaS

A working migration plan for Product 360 estates: how to inventory and score what you own, design the target on IDMC, run a parallel build with reverse sync, migrate the model before the data, cut over integrations without freezing the catalog, and prove nothing was lost.

Aug 20, 2026 34 min

AI & Agentic AI

From Chatbot to Coworker: Designing AI That Earns Trust One Task at a Time

The gap between an AI that answers questions and an AI that carries real work is not a model upgrade — it is trust. And trust between people and machines is built the same way it is built between people: one task, one verification, one kept promise at a time.

Aug 18, 2026 7 min

AI & Agentic AI

Build vs. Buy in the Agent Era: When Off-the-Shelf Beats Custom

Every platform you already pay for is shipping agents, and every engineering team wants to build their own. The old build-vs-buy calculus doesn't survive the agent era intact — differentiation moved out of the model, maintenance became the dominant cost, and the right answer is usually a portfolio, not a policy.

Aug 16, 2026 5 min

Cloud & Modernization

Zero-Downtime Cloud Migrations: The Runbook for Moving Systems That Can't Stop

Some systems have no maintenance window — payments, policy admin, order flows, patient records. Moving them to the cloud without stopping them is a solved engineering problem, but only if you respect the sequence: replicate, mirror, cut over by percentage, and keep the way back open.

Aug 13, 2026 6 min

Data Architecture & Engineering

Snowflake Bill Shock: A Practical Guide to Warehouse Cost Discipline

The invoice doubled and nobody can say why. Snowflake's pay-per-use model rewards discipline and punishes defaults — and most bill shock traces to a handful of preventable patterns. Here is where the credits actually go, and the governance that keeps them in check.

Aug 8, 2026 4 min

Talent

The GCC Playbook: Building a Global Capability Center That Doesn't Stall

Global Capability Centers have evolved from cost-arbitrage back offices into product and engineering engines — but most stall somewhere between the first hundred hires and real ownership. The difference is rarely location or salary. It is design.

Aug 1, 2026 7 min

AI & Agentic AI

Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection: Securing LLM-Powered Apps

Twenty years ago, every web form was a potential breach until the industry learned to separate code from data. LLM apps face the same class of flaw — except this time there is no parameterized-query fix. Securing them is an architecture problem, and it has a playbook.

Jul 25, 2026 6 min

AI & Agentic AI

The AI Change-Management Gap: Why Adoption Fails After the Demo

The demo took twenty minutes and won the room. Six months later, usage is flat and the license renewal is in doubt. The gap between an impressive AI demo and daily adoption is not a technology problem — it is a change-management problem, and it has a playbook.

Jul 18, 2026 6 min

AI & Agentic AI

AI in Insurance Underwriting: From Actuarial Tables to Real-Time Risk Models

Actuarial tables priced yesterday's risk. AI-driven underwriting prices risk as it changes — telematics, IoT, and continuous models — but only on a data foundation that is governed, explainable, and built for real time.

Jul 14, 2026 6 min

AI & Agentic AI

From Golden Record to Golden Agent: What MDM Owes the Age of Autonomy

For twenty years, master data management existed to hand a human a trustworthy record. Autonomous agents do not pause to sanity-check — they act. Here is the debt MDM has to repay before agents can be trusted to act on their own.

Jul 7, 2026 6 min

AI & Agentic AI

Multi-Agent Orchestration: Architecture Patterns for Agents That Don't Step on Each Other

More agents won't save a system that can't coordinate them. A practical guide to multi-agent orchestration in 2026 — the four core patterns, how agents collide over shared state, and the mechanisms that keep them out of each other's way.

Jun 28, 2026 6 min

AI & Agentic AI

From Black Box to Glass Box: A Practical Playbook for Explainable AI

AI you can't explain is AI you can't deploy. A risk-tiered playbook for explainable AI in 2026 — from SHAP and counterfactuals to reasoning traces for autonomous agents — built for the new regulatory reality.

Jun 28, 2026 5 min

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Insights

Implementing ON EBX: A Technical Blueprint for Customer MDM

Databricks or Snowflake for MDM Workloads: An Architecture Comparison

Reltio Implementation Best Practices: A Technical Blueprint for Multidomain MDM That Holds Up in Production

Modernizing Informatica Product 360: A Technical Blueprint for Moving P360 On-Premise to SaaS

From Chatbot to Coworker: Designing AI That Earns Trust One Task at a Time

Build vs. Buy in the Agent Era: When Off-the-Shelf Beats Custom

Zero-Downtime Cloud Migrations: The Runbook for Moving Systems That Can't Stop

Snowflake Bill Shock: A Practical Guide to Warehouse Cost Discipline

The GCC Playbook: Building a Global Capability Center That Doesn't Stall

Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection: Securing LLM-Powered Apps

The AI Change-Management Gap: Why Adoption Fails After the Demo

AI in Insurance Underwriting: From Actuarial Tables to Real-Time Risk Models

From Golden Record to Golden Agent: What MDM Owes the Age of Autonomy

Multi-Agent Orchestration: Architecture Patterns for Agents That Don't Step on Each Other

From Black Box to Glass Box: A Practical Playbook for Explainable AI

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