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…
Data Articles
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…
The CMDB is an Operational Data Store
Charles Betz discusses why the CMDB is not a data warehouse, but rather an operational data store.
The Requirements Bill of Materials: A Walkthrough
Bill Lewis describes a model for application requirements based on a bill-of-materials metamodel.
Governance for Taxonomic Reference Data
Reference data is the Rodney Dangerfield of the data world – it gets no respect. However, it is feared. Malcolm…
Agile: The Good News, The Bad News
Larry Burns describes Agile Development and discusses the positive advantages of this approach to application development.
Grids in Data Warehousing
This article discusses how IT organizations face challenges when data volume explodes and how grid technology has proven to be…
The Strategic Data Dashboard
Do you know where your organization needs to be in the next year? What about the next five years? What…