Which Should Come First – the Chicken or the Egg?
Published in TDAN.com January 2002 Introduction Which application did most companies build first, the data warehouse/data marts or the meta…
Data Articles
What is a Business Rules Approach?
Published in TDAN.com January 2002 [The following is an excerpt from chapter one from the book titled Business Rules Applied…
The Importance of the Data & Knowledge Management Specialist
Published in TDAN.com October 2001 Author’s note … It is now a couple of weeks after the day that changed…
Techniques for Modeling As-Is Processes (Part Two)
Published in TDAN.com October 2001 Articles in this series – Part 1 [The following is an excerpt from an early…
Benefits of Creating Ensembles of Classifiers
Published in TDAN.com October 2001 Introduction In recent years, there has been an explosion of papers in the data mining…
The Reference Data Challenge for Data Administration
Published in TDAN.com October 2001 Reference data is known to most IT professionals as “code tables” or “lookup tables”, and…
The Co-Existance of Digital and Paper Documents
Published in TDAN.com October 2001 Forward-looking organizations must tackle the co-existence of digital and paper documents if for no other…
Enterprise Architecture: The What’s and How’s
Published in TDAN.com October 2001 Introduction More and more, companies are recognizing that they need to integrate and pull together…
Adam Smith and the Software Industry
Published in TDAN.com October 2001 “ . . . every individual . . . intends only his own gain, and…
The Single Customer View: A Valuable Tool or a Narrow Definition?
Published in TDAN.com October 2001 Companies are spending thousands deploying customer relationship management (CRM) systems in order to gain a…