The Data-Centric Revolution: Headless BI and the Metrics Layer
Occasionally, I pick up on trends in my peripheral vision. These are trends that aren’t in the center of my…
Dave McComb
The Data-Centric Revolution: Incremental Stealth Legacy Modernization
I’m reading the book Kill it with Fire by Marianne Bellotti. It’s a good book. Plenty of pragmatic advice, both…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Data-Centric Accounting
I didn’t set out to rewrite the rules of accounting. It just sort of happened. It is a tale of…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Avoiding the Hype Cycle
Gartner has put “Knowledge Graphs” at the peak of inflated expectations. If you are a Knowledge Graph software vendor, this…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Fighting Class Proliferation
One of the ideas we promote is elegance in the core data model in a Data-Centric enterprise. This is harder…
The Data-Centric Revolution: The Role of SemOps (Part 2)
In our previous installment of this two-part series we introduced a couple of ideas. First, data governance may be more…
The Data-Centric Revolution: The Role of SemOps (Part 1)
We’ve been working on something we call “SemOps” (like DevOps but for Semantic Technology + IT Operations). The basic idea…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Data-Centric vs. Centralization
We just finished a conversation with a client who was justifiably proud of having centralized what had previously been a…
The Data-Centric Revolution: The Sky is Falling (Let’s Make Lemonade)
Recently IDC predicted that IT spending will drop by 5% due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] Last week, Gartner went further by…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Report From the Front Lines
Earlier this month we hosted the second annual Data-Centric Architecture Forum (#DCAF2020) in Fort Collins, CO. These are the highlights.…