The Requirements Bill of Materials: A Walkthrough
Bill Lewis describes a model for application requirements based on a bill-of-materials metamodel.
Data Articles
Governance for Taxonomic Reference Data
Reference data is the Rodney Dangerfield of the data world – it gets no respect. However, it is feared. Malcolm…
Agile: The Good News, The Bad News
Larry Burns describes Agile Development and discusses the positive advantages of this approach to application development.
Grids in Data Warehousing
This article discusses how IT organizations face challenges when data volume explodes and how grid technology has proven to be…
The Strategic Data Dashboard
Do you know where your organization needs to be in the next year? What about the next five years? What…
UML as a Data Modeling Notation, Part 4
This article, Part 4 of what was originally a 3-part series, is in response to some issues that were brought…
The 10-Minute Data Model Review, Part 3
Data modeling is based on the precept of knowing your data and knowing how the data is interrelated with other…
Specters That Haunt ERP System Conversions
Problems that commonly afflict organizations converting to new enterprise resource planning (ERP) software systems are examined in this article, along…
Application Administration: The Next Frontier for the DBA
The role of the DBA is evolving quickly from managing the database to managing the information.
Architecture Made Easy, Part 3
The difference between control systems and information systems begins subtly with their associated data architectures, but you’ll be surprised to…