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News Analysis: IBM Acquires MDM Leader Initiate Systems For Public Sector and Healthcare Prowess

News Analysis: IBM Acquires MDM Leader Initiate Systems For Public Sector and Healthcare Prowess

By R "Ray" Wang on February 3, 2010

IBM Adds A Leading Customer Data Integration/MDM Pioneer To Its Master Information Management Arsenal With arguably 10 master information management acquisitions since 2003, IBM continues to push towards its goal of adaptive master data management (MDM) (see Figure 1).  The recent acquisition of Initiate Systems comes after the heals of Oracle’s purchase of SilverCreek Systems […]

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