The Marriage of Metadata and Data Governance
Data governance is the people, process, and technology required to create a consistent and proper handling of an organization’s data…
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Machine Learning is Transforming Logistics
Machine learning has become a new bandwagon for logistic professionals nowadays. If you are shipping out goods to any part…
Why ISO Certification Is Worth It
ISO certification offers autonomous validation that ascertains a company’s conformity to a given set of standards. Today, data security vulnerabilities…
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…
Paying Down Semantic Debt
In my last piece, “Where does semantic debt come from?,” I described the Semantic Debt Life-cycle. At a higher level,…
When You Wish Upon a Star Schema
If there was ever a time when I was uncertain about the future of data, it’s now. I am not…
Protect Your Data with Data Governance
There are many reasons why organizations design, develop, and deliver Data Governance Programs. Typical reasons include improving data quality, improving analytical…
Role of Blockchain In Supply Chain Management
Supply chain management is basically about the movement of the work-in-progress inventory— raw materials from the place of origin to…
Questions Metadata Can Answer
The world of information technology has “grown up” dramatically in the last twenty-five years – the term of my comparably…
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…