The Data Modeling Addict October 2012
This is the eighth in Steve Hoberman's series of articles covering the ten steps for completing the High-Level Data Model…
Data Education
EA Principles – October 2012
In this third article about EA Principles, Eskil Swende describes an approach that may lead us toward a more scientific…
SELECT * FROM Celko – September 2012
Joe Celko spends a lot of my time looking at bad SQL. In this column he writes about his heuristic…
From Data Modeling to Ontologies: Discovering What Exists, Part 1
This is the first of two articles from David Hay that address the development of ontologies to address the semantic…
Employing Enterprise Metadata to Effectively Deploy Enterprise Resource Planning Packages, Part 1
This paper, the first in a series of four papers from Mike Gorman, defines the overall objective that the four…
Business Rules – September 2012
Ron Ross provides a case study that reinforces the importance of building a model that will stand the test of…
A Taxonomy of Barriers to Producing Performance Indicators on Human Service Programs
Human service programs are under pressure to measure their performance, but they face a variety of practical obstacles to producing…
Agile Data Design – August 2012
In this touching column, Larry Burns tells us that we really need to focus on information rather than data while…
The EIM Puzzle – August 2012
This month's column examines the role of the Enterprise Information Management Center of Excellence.
The Skeptical Architect – August 2012
This column discusses how linking sets of architectures with an effective set of analytical techniques provides a quick way to…