Too Simple, Too Soon
The author explains an application development approach advocated by many proponents of agile application development that can cause future problems…
Data Articles
American ITIL – Winning The Metadata Contest
This article describes how an IT process excellence movement will energize and reinvigorate metadata management.
Enterprise Architecture – Connect-the-Dots for Adults, Part 3
This article, the third in a series on enterprise architecture, discusses the approaches to developing an enterprise architecture, describing the…
The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Chapter 7
Published in TDAN.com October 2007 Editor’s note: Following are links to all of the articles in this series: Part 1,…
Thought Leaders on Data Modeling, Part 2
This article is an excerpt from Data Modeling Theory and Practice by Graeme Simsion. This excerpt covers two dimensions: process…
Enterprise Application Modernization
The biggest problem facing CIOs today is their existing applications. This article describes a permanent solution that reduces maintenance overhead…
CDI and MDM are Broken, Part 1
This article examines the current state of solutions for the rapidly growing area of CDI and MDM. He sets the…
Semantics in Metadata Repository and Systems Integration Efforts
This article looks at the use of a central metadata repository to support system development efforts and shows how sound…
Information Systems Development
This article presents a 9-step approach for information systems development.
Enterprise Architecture: Connect-Dots for Adults, Part 2
This article, the second in a series, discusses what items could be contained in the enterprise architecture and touches briefly…