The Semantic Model: A Basis For Understanding and Implementing Data Warehouse Requirements
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 Overview What is a Semantic Model? The use of a semantic model as a fundamental…
Data Articles
Enabling a Business Intelligence Self-Service Platform Across The Enterprise
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 Background Throughout the years, I have been witness to many Data Warehousing projects that started…
Managing Data Names, Value Domains, Abbreviations and Definitions
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 The Data Naming Problem What’s in a name? Most commonly, the idea is that a…
Bringing Business and IT Together – Part 3
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 Articles in this series – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 This is the third…
Data Modeling, RDF, & OWL – Part Three: Converting Data Model Relationships to OWL
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 [This is the third of three articles discussing the new/old ideas of semantics and ontology…
Making the SOA Implementation Successful
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 First the organization built its systems. Then the potential of the Internet and…
Should Your CIO Care About Meta Data Management? Part One
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 Over the past year I’ve read a couple of articles that described the task of…
Database Archiving for Long-Term Data Retention
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 Organizations are generating and keeping a more data now than at any time in history…
Leveraging Technology to Reestablish Data Management
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 New technologies bring new opportunities, not just to developers, but also to those of us…
Simplicity In Design: A Metadata Imperative
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 Every year or so, I get on my soap box about the absolute horrid state…