Computer Life Cycle Management and Migration
Managing IT equipment and product life cycles is an important function of IT department staff.
Data Articles
The Prime Business Decision Loop
The Prime Business Decision Loop addresses the fact that the evolution of technology has shifted the manner in which business…
Getting and Keeping Your Data Right
Organizations often do not realize just how poor and out of control their data really is because they hold tight…
Metadata Improvements – A Case Study
The article describes problems encountered in integrating metadata, the approach taken and the results achieved.
Performance Tuning Considerations for Decision Support Systems
Stephen Putman considers a common scenario of decision support system implementation Ð performance issues shortly after deployment that impact system…
Architecture Made Easy, Part 1
This article describes how to avoid getting a dozen different data models from twelve experienced data modelers with the same…
Subtyping in W3C XML Schema, Part 1
Data model supertype-subtype concepts can be directly represented in W3C XML Schema and OO programmers will smile and thank you.…
Enterprise Service Engineering
This article describes the benefits of using a strategically driven, model-based approach for developing and managing service components.
Milestones on the 2008-9 Master Data Management Road Map
Aaron Zornes provides 12 master data management milestones that hopefully will help IT professionals craft a road map for the…
Business Analysis: A Guide to Better Software Evaluation
The benefits of a full software evaluation process include stakeholder ownership, insight into how the solution will improve the business…