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…
Data Articles
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…
Debunking the CRM Myth
Published in TDAN.com October 2001 Customer Relationship Management. Sounds simple enough. But the three letters C-R-M are striking fear in…
What is VLDB? Very Large Databases
Published in TDAN.com October 2001 Articles in this series – Part 2, Part 3 This is the first part of…
Meta Data Architecture Fundamentals
Published in TDAN.com October 2001 Over the next few years many companies will have the unenviable task of completely rebuilding…
The Role of XML in Business Re-Engineering
Published in TDAN.com July 2001 1. ABSTRACT The Internet and corporate Intranets present opportunities to re-engineer business processes for direct…
A Column by Any Other Name is Not a Data Element
Published in TDAN.com July 2001 Background This article describes an approach to achieve enterprise-wide data standardization through the specification, implementation,…