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September 2007

Articles

Why Data Models Do Not Work: The Role of Reference Data
by Malcolm Chisholm
There is an urgent need to acknowledge the limitations of data models and find a way to bridge the logical-physical divide between models and actual databases so that database designs can be fully understood.

Enterprise Architecture: Connect-the-Dots for Adults, Part 1
by Scott Benson
Developing an enterprise architecture can be viewed as connect-the-dots for adults. However, in doing so, all you get is a pretty picture and not a management tool that can help an organization understand and manage itself.

The Socialization of Knowledge
by Bonnie O'Neil
This article is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, Business Metadata, to be published on or about September, 2007, co-authored by Bill Inmon, Bonnie O’Neil and Lowell Fryman, published by Morgan Kaufman.

Special Features

Eye On TDWI – August 2007
by Tim Feetham
San Diego, Back When Pluto Was A Planet

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Featured Columns

The Database Report - July 2007
by Craig S. Mullins
Reporting on Database Industry News from April through June, 2007
Craig Mullins provides his quarterly review of the activities within the database market during April, May, and June of 2007.

DAMA Corner - July 2007
by John Schley
The International Information Exchange
Learn new data management skills and gain understanding through information sharing, a practice that benefits for both the information giver and the receiver,

The Data Modeling Addict - July 2007
by Steve Hoberman
The Data Model Scorecard Category 5 of 10
The sixth of a series of articles on the Data Model Scorecard™, this article focuses on the standards category.

Unwired Tap - July 2007
by Robert S. Dominko
iPhone, uPhone, We All Want an iPhone
A review of the media coverage of iPhone as well as other wireless and digital living current events.

The Small Business Market - July 2007
by Jeffrey R. Canter
Strategic Tunnel Vision
Unfortunately, small-to-medium size businesses sometimes suffer from data management strategic tunnel vision, but there is a cure!

A New Way of Thinking - July 2007
by David Loshin
Data Quality, Data Control, and Data Quality Service Level Agreements
There are always going to be data issues that require attention and remediation. This article looks at the protocols that need to be in place to determine data errors as early as possible in the processing stream.

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Perspectives

Managing Risk in a Flat World
by Isaac Cheifetz

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