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The ability to leverage data effectively can be the deciding factor between business success and obsolescence. Organizations that excel in harnessing data are often referred to as "data leaders," Read on.

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What Separates a Data Laggard from a Data Leader?

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Today, more than ever, organizations generate and rely on vast amounts of data to drive decision-making, innovation, and competitive advantage. Unfortunately, not everyone in an organization understands the importance...

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Understanding the Importance of Data Governance

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Overcoming the Hurdles: Getting past the blockers CDOs face to operationalize Data Governance

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Overcoming the Hurdles: Getting past the blockers CDOs face to operationalize Data Governance

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Data is not garbage. Could it be better? Could you get more insights from it? Absolutely. That is the opportunity lurking within the data. As data leaders, we should push forward the idea about unleashing the ...

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Shifting Perspective: Your Data is Not Garbage

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Premier's agile data governance framework accelerates Workday implementations and provides organizations the structure to maintain data clarity and trust long after go-live

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Formalizing Data Governance As Part of Your Workday Implementation

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After working on dozens of implementations, we find that organizations frequently overlook using the implementation as an opportunity to upgrade data governance to fuel long term data performance.

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Including Data Governance as Part of your ERP Implementation

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Digital transformations are a major investment in your organization’s future. We’ve identified 3 keys needed to accomplish an enterprise payroll validation.

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3 Keys to Drive Your Payroll Validation Success

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A comprehensive data migration approach covers the phases from preparing the target vision, executing the transformation, and driving long term data performance.

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Best Practices Data Migration Services Explained

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Data validation and testing are both crucial when migrating data to any system. It’s important to understand the difference as they are frequently mistaken to mean the same thing.

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What's the Difference Between Data Validation and Testing?

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The New York State Department of Financial Services released 23 NYCRR 500, a regulation dealing with Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies. Read more about key components of this regulation

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Data Governance Requirements to Support Compliance with New York

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The final test cycle before cutover deserves as much or even more attention than cutover itself. A successful dress rehearsal is an excellent indication that the entire project team can deliver a successful go-live.

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How a Go-Live Dress Rehearsal Ensures Cutover Success

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Kicking off your organization’s data governance implementation with an introductory meeting is an effective way to ensure stakeholder buy-in and set expectations for things to come.

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Data Governance Kick-Off Meeting

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According to McKinsey, organizations spend 30% of their time on non-value added tasks because of poor data management. Read on to explore why data impacts performance and how Premier can work with you on these issues.

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Data Holds Organizations Back

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As part of a global rollout of Dynamics 365, the Item Master for a particular cold finishing mill required a dramatic redesign.

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Mastering the Item Master: A Tour de Force Wrangling Unconventional Data

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Successful completion of a data transformation and ERP implementation will provide huge advantages to your organization. But before you can realize these benefits, your organization must rise to the challenges ahead.

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7 Barriers to Successful Data Migration

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Making a first data conversion test cycle a success requires good planning and proactive work. Here, we take you behind the scenes of 7 key steps that we do at Premier to help make your test cycle a success.

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Behind the Scenes: 7 Things We Do Before a Successful Test Cycle

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Units of Measure can make or break their supply chain solution. Read more to understand more about unit of measure, UOM conversions, and issues to avoid.

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How Inaccurate UOM Data Can Break Your Supply Chain

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A successful project start with good project management. There are 5 big mistakes that could put your software implementation at risk. Continue reading to learn of ways to fix or avoid these disastrous mistakes.

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5 Project Management Mistakes in ERP Implementations (And How to Fix Them)

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Model governance refers to the set of processes, policies, and controls implemented to manage and oversee the lifecycle of analytical and statistical models within an organization.

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Model Governance Aligning Information Governance With Model Risk Management

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When preparing for the data conversion, consider the all risk, benefit, and entire scope of the data activities. Read on to calculate the risk and see the realized benefits that are possible when building the data team.

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Data Risk Factors and Monetary Impact When Resourcing Your Implementation

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Strategizing supplier selection will start your organization on the path to a successful ERP implementation. Keep reading to learn the secrets to robust supplier selection.

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6 Secrets to Supplier Selection Criteria

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The City of Dallas embarked on its Workday implementation in early 2018. Before Premier International was contacted, the city had already struggled through 3 test cycles on their own...

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Rescuing a Workday Implementation - Securing Benefits for First Responders

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User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is typically considered a dress rehearsal for Go-Live and should result in minimal change requests. But this was not your typical UAT.

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Migrating Critical-to-Customer Data to Dynamics 365: How We Resolved Missing Legacy Data Challenges

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A $3B organizations MDM is to throw some data stewards at it. Learn about how this is inadequate and questions that can be asked to build out data governance at your company.

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Throw Some Data Stewards At It

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Our steel manufacturer client proudly designed their own Supply Chain software solution decades ago on mainframe servers. While this system helped to propel them to success, it was time to modernize to D365.

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Transforming Supply Chain Data to Dynamics 365: Unravelling a Complex Legacy Solution

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Cloud implementations continue rising in popularity and are projected to make on-premise database-driven business solutions obsolete. This trend has been accelerated by the current pandemic and its global impact.

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Moving to the Cloud ... Now What

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Explore 4 steps to consider when implementing Oracle Cloud ERP together with Ivalua to improve your organization’s supplier on-boarding management, sourcing and RFx, contract redlining...

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4 Steps in your Ivalua and Oracle Cloud Journey

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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. This is true in terms of Grandma logic and In the world of data management. Organizations spend millions implementing new ERP and business application solutions but ...

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Ounce of Prevention Worth a Pound of Cure

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If you plan on implementing Oracle Cloud PPM and Grants the following questions will help head of issues before they become problems that impact the implementation.

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4 Questions to Ask When Implementing Oracle Cloud Projects and Grants

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One of reasons data is cited as an issues on implementations stems from underestimating the data effort before the project even starts. Learn what needs to be considered in an estimate effort.

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Calculating Oracle Cloud Data Migration Effort

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The State of Iowa and Workday in conjunction with governing.com shared the State’s journey to the cloud over the past several years. The webinar discussed lessons learned, including data conversion.

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Data Conversion Lessons Learned at the State of Iowa

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The following checklist leverages Premier's experience implementing dozens of Oracle projects that can help your organization prepare it's upcoming Oracle Cloud ERP implementation.

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Data Migration Check List for Oracle ERP Cloud Implementations

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To realize the power of Oracle's Cloud applications, it is critical that the underlying data is clean and correct. Understanding the top challenges while migrating into Oracle Cloud is critical to the project's success.

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Top 7 Oracle Cloud Data Migration Challenges

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It has become increasingly difficult for Implementation Partners to distinguish themselves from their competition as Cloud solutions have eliminated many of the previously available customizations.

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Gaining a Competitive Edge Through a Comprehensive Data Approach

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The U.S. government has started to regulate industries like banks and financial institutions. Learn more about these regulations and how Premier's data governance approach addresses these regulations

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Data Governance Compliance for BCBS 239, DFAST, and CCAR with Collibra Data Governance and Regulations

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An IT project is a complex system of software, data, people, and requirements. Software goes through versions, data points move, and people evolve, but requirements stand out as the most fluid element of a project.

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How to Halt Endless Requirement Changes

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Data validation is critical to the success of every Oracle ERP Cloud implementation. Without knowing how or what to validate validation can lead to unpredictable test cycles, long hours, and project delays.

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Accelerating Oracle ERP Cloud Implementations Through Data Validation

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Read through 9 activities will help ensure that your implementation gets started on the right foot.

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9 Initial Data Assessment Activities

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Curious who is responsible for what aspects of data on complex implementations? This article contains a of RACI of who is Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed for the major activities of a data migration.

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Who's Responsible for What on Complex Data Migrations

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Data profiling is a critical step in uncovering the data landscape. This posts provides a high level summary of some simple types of profiling that are commonly used to assist in landscape analysis.

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A Primer on Data Profiling on Data Migration Projects

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"You'll never be able to figure out our data",that's what I was told. 48 hours later after putting in some evening hours, mission accomplished.

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Data Spelunking: Simple Techniques to Start Understanding Data Landscapes

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The beneficial impact of a central repository and process is enormous. In order to realize those benefits, there are important features that the repository must have. Explore five critical features in this post.

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5 Requirements of a Data Migration Repository

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A case study that explores the value that Premier International brought to an inflight implementation for a Fortune 500 steel company.

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Accelerating and Improving an In-Flight Implementation

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This list outlines the data work that should be performed on complex implementations and can be used to help formulate deliverables to include within an RFP.

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Data Deliverables to Include in an ERP Implementation RFP

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Most organizations don't implement enterprise wide software packages like Workday often. This checklist provides definitive steps and insights that will help you prepare the data component of the implementation.

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Data Migration Checklist For Workday Implementations

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Premier International uses a centralized data repository as one of many tools to eliminate data migration risk. This post outlines 8 benefits of using a central repository as part of an implementation.

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8 Benefits of a Central Data Repository

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Cloud computing is in its infancy, especially in the ERP space and its lack of maturity presents another of challenges.

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The Challenges of Supporting Cloud Migrations

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Bridging the gap between mainframes and the Cloud requires a complex and comprehensive data conversion effort. Premier's comprehensive solution addresses these additional complexities.

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Accelerating the Journey from Mainframe to the Cloud

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It's time for go-live! As cut-over approaches, the "this is real" feeling sinks in. The project plan, quality of data, migration programs, and solution readiness are all examined under a microscope.

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Pre-Validation Reports: The Secret to Alleviating Data Conversion Anxiety

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Data Lakes address advanced analytics by providing vast arrays of structured and unstructured data for data scientists and their peers to mine. Read more on Data Governance's importance in a Data Lakes

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Data Governance in the Lake

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Solving the duplicate issue can yield increased buying power, more accurate marketing campaigns, reduced maintenance costs, improved inventory management, and better forecasting.

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Common Techniques to Employ in the Identification of Duplicate Data

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While there is a common misconception that Data Migration is simply moving data from Point A to Point B, the reality is almost always much more complicated.

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7 Reasons Data Migrations Fail

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The cost of a Data Migration can be thought of from two angles—the Direct Cost and the Indirect Cost.

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The Impact of a Failed Data Migration

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Data is always underestimated on new implementations. From the initial data design, to data quality, the migration, and through the final data validation, this underestimation of data is a constant on every project.

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Two Critical Benefits of a Data Repository

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Industry experts agree that Data Migration poses the largest risk in any implementation. The findings are the same across platforms and module.

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EPACTL vs ETL

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While Data Migration and Data Integration are related, they are two fundamentally different activities with contrasting requirements. They need to be approached as such.‍

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Data Migration vs. Data Integration

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Every successful IT Transformation includes a cutover – a moment where the old way of doing things disappears and the new solution goes live. We introduce the basic types of cutover.

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What's Your Type? A Nontechnical Primer on IT Transformation Cutover Types

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