Controlling Hierarchical Structure Processing From SQL
This article presents some of the more powerful and advanced hierarchical processing operations and capabilities possible with ANSI SQL hierarchical…
Data Articles
The “Non-Invasive Data Governance”™ Operating Model
Bob Seiner uses the term ÒOperating ModelÓ because the roles & responsibilities of a ÒNon-Invasive Data GovernanceÓª program play such…
The Power of a Common Business Language
This article explains how companies create and standardize their common business language Ð terms, definitions, and related metrics Ð to…
Lean IT Value Streams: An Entity Lifecycle Approach
This article describes a framework for both managing and understanding IT value and its underpinnings, incorporating principles from Lean, the…
Best Practices for IT Service Management
How do you quantitatively measure the value of IT services to your organization? ÒI canÕtÓ and ÒI donÕtÓ are…
Business Event Management
Mike Gorman offers an approach that can capture the business event transactions themselves, the history of the business event transactions…
Architecture Made Easy, Part 7
A data road map can be a useful tool for illuminating the path that will lead to an improved level…
Just the Facts About Mainframe Specialty Processors
What are specialty processors and why do they exist? Craig Mullins explains their uses in this article.
Data for Information Management
“Your strategic and corporate reporting will be as effective as your operational systems performance management is.” Every organization or enterprise…
Bridging the Data-Metadata Duality
There is a certain class of information, so-called reference data, that can be designated as both data and metadata. This…