Kalido announced the new release of their Kalido Information Engine MDM product today at TDWI Conference in Chicago the release associates the new features with Data Governance. I applaud the move, both on the product side features and tying up with the “hot” business issue around MDM today Data Governance.
However closer examination of the features indicate capabilities that vendors such as Siperian (disclosure, my former company) have had since the inception of the platform back in 2003. The release says “Kalido has improved its already substantial native data governance capabilities with the addition of automated data matching capabilities that will help ease a significant manual and administrative burden for data stewards across the enterprise. “
The features listed in the release mentions that it allows customers to:
The ability to build a gold copy master record and to maintain x-refs (Siperian parlance) as well as using hierarchy relationships definitely align with some of the capabilities that make/made Siperian special. However it’s the mention of “confidence calculation, process matching and survivorship management” which invokes comparison to Siperian’s Trust Framework, which allows for cell level survivorship to derive a reliable trusted golden record.
With Kalido now bringing to market some of the “table stakes” features that customers have come to expect from a enterprise class MDM platform, the market is definitely heating up. A word of advice however to those considering taking the plunge with Kalido’s new release, Siperian’s headstart of 6 years supporting and deploying such capabilities represents much more than just tenure, it encompasses significant learnings around orchestration of survivorship and then many moving parts, applied and proven over many complex real-life customer scenarios. So it is likely that Kalido will definitely face revisions and enhancements as they get their capabilities battle tested.
With that, kudos and best of luck to Kalido, but now the hard work really begins.