Embracing “Data Town Plans” as a Bridge Between the Business and IT (Part 2)
In the previous article, we looked at two age-old problems facing the IT world. The first related to an issue…
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Embracing “Data Town Plans” as a Bridge Between the Business and IT (Part 1)
Imagine building a new city without a “town plan,” yet some people build information technology (IT) solutions without the data…
Applying Top-down, Big-Picture Models to Data Vault Part 2
Data Vaults have enormous potential to deliver value, but to do so, we’ve got to turn the spotlight off the…
Applying Top-Down, Big-Picture Models to a Data Vault Part 1
Data Vaults have enormous potential to deliver value, but to do so, we’ve got to turn the spotlight off the…
How to Do Top-Down, Big-Picture Modeling – Part 2
This paper forms the second part of a big-picture top-down data modeling trilogy. The first paper on why to take…
Why Do Top-Down Big-Picture Modeling? Part 2
The preceding article in this series looks at some real-world case studies that suggest that starting with an enterprise-wide, top-down…
Why Do Top-Down Big-Picture Modeling? Part 1
Models are only ever a means to an end. Sometimes car designs are modeled in clay –you can’t drive the…
A Really Close Look at the “Universal Data Vault” (UDV)
This is the second of two articles from John Giles on Universal Data Vault (UDV) design. Part one of the…