Bill Swanton
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VP Distinguished Analyst, Gartner
Bill Swanton
Bill Swanton comes to Gartner through the AMR Research acquisition and brings more than 34 years of enterprise manufacturing expertise to his role as VP and Distinguished Analyst. Mr. Swanton covers application strategy and the business value of IT, including IT benefit realization techniques used by Fortune 1000 companies to expand the value they receive from their ERP and other application investments. Recent areas of focus have been Pace Layered Application Strategy, application organization maturity (ITScore), BPM for ERP, and MDM for ERP. Mr. Swanton has also analyzed the high-tech and discrete industries, with a specific focus on how brand owners, contract manufacturers and other suppliers manage global demand-driven supply networks (DDSNs). His tenure at AMR Research enabled him to work in a variety of roles at the company. He built the manufacturing strategies service from a single analyst to a team of vertical-industry specialists covering aerospace and defense, automotive, chemical, CPG, high tech, and life sciences. In this role, he led the development of the firm's REPAC model of manufacturing processes. Mr. Swanton also launched AMR Research's product life cycle management (PLM) coverage in 1997 and continues to follow its role in the larger enterprise architecture.
SESSIONSLATEST RESEARCH
3 Sessions
Show Descriptions
Thursday
Thursday
10:00 - 10:30
Panel Discussion: Practitioners Debate MDM Trends
Speakers: Bjoern Ebeling, Denis Rose, Andrew White
Moderator: Bill Swanton
Session Type: Keynote
Location: Palau de Congressos de Catalunya - Auditorium
ID: P2
Track: AA
As interest in MDM accelerates, companies are more closely linking their MDM roadmap to their application and transformation initiatives. Join our panel of MDM practitioners for a debate on MDM best practices that assure successful business outcomes and market trends affecting them.
Thursday
14:15 - 15:45
Interactive Workshop: Putting your MDM Program Together
Speakers: Lyn Robison, Bill Swanton
Session Type: Workshop
Location: Palau de Congressos de Catalunya - Press Room II, Level 1
ID: W1
Tracks: IT, T, F
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A successful MDM program entails the complex orchestration of governance, organization, process, and technology infrastructure. Participants will combine MDM Summit concepts with their unique organizational needs to outline their MDM program, guiding their gap analysis and roadmap decisions.
• What decisions need to be made to start an MDM program?
• How should a program manager approach getting decisions made?
• What unique issues in my organization need to be taken into consideration?
Friday
Friday
10:45 - 11:45
Weaving MDM into Your Application Strategy
Speaker: Bill Swanton
Session Type: Gartner Session
Location: Palau de Congressos de Catalunya - Sala F
ID: C4
Tracks: TC, IT, S
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MDM initiatives are impossible to fund on their own, only as part of a business initiative. Applications are prime consumers of master data, so necessary MDM must be worked into an application strategy. This includes considerations for implementing ERP suites or pace layered application strategy.
• How do ERP and other large application suites make MDM harder, or easier, to do?
• How will pace layered application strategies change the situation?
• What are best practices for designing an MDM program for complex application landscapes?