Chief Information Officer

Aaron Zornes is founder and chief research officer for the MDM Institute (formerly the CDI-MDM Institute). Mr. Zornes is also conference chairman for the MDM & Data Governance SUMMIT conference series, which is the most widely attended professional conference focused exclusively on MDM and data governance. He is a noted speaker and author on Global 5000 enterprise IT issues and is the most quoted industry analyst on the topics of MDM, CDI and data governance. Prior to founding the MDM Institute, he was founder and executive VP for META Group's largest research advisory practice for 15 years. He has also held line and strategic management positions at Ingres Corp., Wang, Software AG of North America and Cincom Systems. Mr. Zornes received his M.S. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona.

EXPERT TESTIMONY PANEL: Leveraging MDM & Data Governance First 6 Months
March 10, 2010

EXPERT TESTIMONY PANEL: Delivering Effective Master Data Governance
March 10, 2010

MDM for Tough Times
July 21, 2009 5 trends to strengthen organizations during recession

The Fourth Generation of MDM
October 1, 2007 Inquiring minds are trying to figure out how to get their arms around enterprise master data. This article presents a look at...

CDI Milestones on the MDM Roadmap, Part 2
June 21, 2007 The CDI-MDM Insitute discusses the customer data integration, master data management landscape.

Microsoft Nibbles at the MDM Buffet
June 21, 2007 This is an excerpt from the CDI-MDM Alert on June 11, 2007 from The CDI-MDM Institute.

CDI Milestones on the MDM Roadmap, Part 2
June 1, 2007

CDI Milestones on the MDM Roadmap, Part 1
May 17, 2007 The first six 2007 CDI-MDM milestones created by the CDI-MDM Institute as a series of strategic planning assumptions to assist...

CDI Milestones on the MDM Roadmap, Part 1
May 1, 2007

Hybrids are Hot
April 19, 2007 In this article the hybrids are data stewards, enterprise data architects and other individuals with both good tech skills and...

Hybrids are Hot
April 1, 2007

Top Five Criteria for CDI-MDM Systems Integrators
March 15, 2007

Top Five Criteria for CDI-MDM Systems Integrators
March 1, 2007

Are Your Systems Integrators Helping Your CDI Initiative?
February 15, 2007 A systems integrator is a critical ambassadorial function needed to help plan for IT organizational change.

Third Generation CDI-MDM Solutions
February 1, 2007

Are Your Systems Integrators Helping Your CDI Initiative?
January 2, 2007

Evaluation Criteria for CDI-MDM Systems Integrators
December 21, 2006 What to look for in a systems integrator to partner with on CDI-MDM projects.

Top 10 CDI-MDM Best Practices
October 19, 2006 This column provides a synopsis of the top 10 best practices applied by IT organizations during their CDI-MDM solution...

Top 10 CDI-MDM Best Practices
October 1, 2006

CDI-MDM Meets BI
September 21, 2006

CDI-MDM Meets BI
September 1, 2006

Master Data Management Milestones, Part 2
March 1, 2006

Taking CDI-MDM to the Executive Suite
February 16, 2006 CxOs have to be given the bad news that past master customer data management investments do not provide the near-real time...

Master Data Management Milestones, Part 1
February 1, 2006

Dysfunctional Data Hubs - 2006-07 Strategic Planning Assumptions for CDI-MDM and Business Services
January 19, 2006 How do IT organizations prevent CDI-MDM initiatives from degenerating into yet another data hub? Is there a future for...

Desperate Data Quality Hubs
December 15, 2005 Is there a future for standalone data quality (DQ) solutions? How does IT stop DQ initiatives from ironically degenerating...

CDI: Career Durability Insurance
December 1, 2005

Corporate Data Governance - From De Rigueur to De Facto to De Jure
November 17, 2005 Trends in customer data integration.

Top Five Commonsensical Justifications
November 1, 2005

Dispelling Master Data Management Myths
October 20, 2005 This article explores and summarizes the challenges that companies face when integrating customer data across disparate...

Avoiding the CDI "Money Pit" - Pick Your (Systems Integration) Partner Wisely
September 15, 2005 Clearly, CDI is one of the few remaining growth areas for both software vendors and systems integrators (SIs) and must be...

Customer Data Integration (CDI) Scorecard: Travel and Leisure Industries
August 18, 2005 This article presents an overview of the business drivers affecting the travel and leisure industry in their acceptance of...

Customer Data Integration: Where is the Next Generation of Master Data Management Headed?
August 1, 2005 CDI and MDM are strategic initiatives that deserve serious scrutiny. The CDI market is in considerable flux as a multitude of...

Customer Data Integration and Financial Services Providers
July 21, 2005 Twenty-first century banking customers will increasingly demand a consistent customer experience across channels in addition...

Customer Data Integration and Financial Services Providers
July 21, 2005 Twenty-first century banking customers will increasingly demand a consistent customer experience across channels in addition...

Customer Data Integration and M&A: Hang Over or Make Over
June 16, 2005 The ongoing juggernaut of mergers and acqusitions activity will dramatically stress the IT landscape through 2005-06. Business...

Which Technical Evaluation Criteria are Most Important to Your CDI Strategy? Part 2
May 19, 2005 Part 1 focused on the first three of 10 key criteria categories that an IT organization needs to focus on during its...

Which Technical Evaluation Criteria are Most Important to Your CDI Strategy?
April 26, 2005 Given that the mega application package vendors are promoting the concept of "data hubs" vigorously, it behooves IT managers...

Customer Data Integration (CDI): Market Review and Forecast for 2005-2006
March 24, 2005 Take a look at the CDI landscape as it is now and get a glimpse of the future.