Thoughts on Data Quality
Craig Mullins looks at the barriers and inhibitors to data quality.
Data Articles
Data Models and Data Profiling
Data models and data profiling are complementary techniques. Although data models do not tell us the whole truth, profiling the…
Modeling the Blueprint for MDM
Modeling the blueprint for MDM is a key differentiator and the difference between success and failure among major initiatives.
Real Men Don’t Read Instructions
Alex Friedgan provides a rebuttal to the recent article entitled "Why Data Models Cannot Work."
10 Ways to Save an Hour a Day
Greg Keller outlines ten helpful ideas for making more productive, identifying where appropriate tooling or other approaches may be implemented…
Earned Value Management
This article presents an approach to constructing, producing, and employing earned value management in the accomplishment of database projects. This…
Link Corporate Policy and Data Design with Decisioning
This article discusses the methods which can be used to discover and model decisions in a structured manner, analogous to…
Architecture Made Easy, Part 4
Maximizing business value requires gathering and analyzing operational metadata from each moment in your operational processes; the gathering of metadata…
Is a Science of Data Possible?
Malcolm Chisholm presents a case for a science of data.
The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Part 10
This is the tenth and final article in a series describing many of the components of a successful Data Governance…