Road to Enterprise Architecture Success
A “pre-corollary” to the Cheshire cat’s advice is: “If you don’t know where you are, you certainly can’t know if any road choice will go anywhere …
Business Glossaries and Metadata: Glossaries, Metadata & MDM
Over the last few months, a few companies have asked me a disturbing question: “Which project do you recommend we do first, Master Data Management (MDM) or …
Data is Risky Business: What Business R U In?
Trust is the opposite of risk. Risk is the effect of uncertainty on objectives. Trust is the presence of certainty. The various things we do in Data Governance …
Growing Importance of Data Democratization
Data is essential for organizations that are looking to maintain a competitive edge enabling them to pinpoint potentially profitable areas that they may have …
The Data Forecast: Data Quality is Not What We Think
The data management space is riddled with terms that sound familiar but betray their true complexity. We also often choose ridiculous terms that describe …
A Disciplined Agile Mindset for Data Management
There are very few organizations left these days that haven’t adopted agile and lean strategies within some – and very often the majority – of their …
What Does Hidden Data Really Cost?
Let this sink in: annually, $3.1 trillion of U.S. GDP is lost because of poor quality data. It’s a staggering figure, one that Harvard Business Review …
The Data-Centric Revolution: The Core Model at the Heart of Your Architecture
We have taken the position that a core model is an essential part of your data centric architecture. In this article, we will review what a core model is, how …
Getting Big Data Right: A Checklist to Evaluate Your Environment
Anyone who has been awake for the past few years cannot but help to have noticed that there is a groundswell of interest in Big Data. Big Data is the …
Database Standards Can Be a Problem
One of my favorite quotes about standards, in general, is – The best thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. While this should …