Thinking about this past week’s Demystifying Financial Services Semantics conference in NYC, hosted by OMG and The EDM Council, and messages that kept coming across: Think about the business issues first, and be realistic in the way your particular organization can accommodate them – semantic technology may be a large, limited or perhaps even non-existent factor, depending on the challenge.

Some commentary on this point from the panelists:

• Citi chief data officer Eric Chacon discussed the challenges of not having a single source of master data that exists for businesses that grow  through acquisitions, as well as any organization highly decentralized in nature. Read more