Best Practices for IT Service Management
How do you quantitatively measure the value of IT services to your organization? ÒI canÕtÓ and ÒI donÕtÓ are…
Data Education
DAMA Corner November 2009
Loretta Mahon Smith provides an update on DAMA activities and chapters.
Business Event Management
Mike Gorman offers an approach that can capture the business event transactions themselves, the history of the business event transactions…
The Field of Dreams Mind-Set
Bill Inmon explains why the Òfield of dreamsÓ strategy is appropriate for business intelligence.
Business Rules November 2009
Data models and class diagrams have never much focused on verb concepts. That omission is a harmful one. A well-organized…
DAMA-DMBOK Available!
DAMA has created the DAMA Data Management Guide to the Body of Knowledge (DAMA-DMBOK) Ð the first "authoritative resource" for…
Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide November 2009
Larry Burns discusses how Agile is changing the traditional role of the DBA.
Architecture Made Easy, Part 7
A data road map can be a useful tool for illuminating the path that will lead to an improved level…
Just the Facts About Mainframe Specialty Processors
What are specialty processors and why do they exist? Craig Mullins explains their uses in this article.
Data for Information Management
“Your strategic and corporate reporting will be as effective as your operational systems performance management is.” Every organization or enterprise…