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John Giles is an independent consultant, focusing on information architecture, but with a passion for seeing ideas taken to fruition. He has worked in IT since the late 1960s, across many industries. He is a Fellow in the Australian Computer Society, and completed a Master’s degree at RMIT University, with a minor thesis comparing computational rules implementations using traditional and object-oriented platforms. He is the author of “The Nimble Elephant: Agile Delivery of Data Models Using a Pattern-based Approach”.

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…

Universal Data Vault: Case Study in Combining “Universal” Data Model Patterns with Data Vault Architecture – Part 1

There are plenty of reasons you might want to use proven “universal” data model patterns to improve the outcome of…