SaaS and BI – March 2009
Diby Malakar explores trends and makes some predictions about the data quality space.
Data Education
Link Corporate Policy and Data Design with Decisioning
This article discusses the methods which can be used to discover and model decisions in a structured manner, analogous to…
Architecture Made Easy, Part 4
Maximizing business value requires gathering and analyzing operational metadata from each moment in your operational processes; the gathering of metadata…
Is a Science of Data Possible?
Malcolm Chisholm presents a case for a science of data.
The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Part 10
This is the tenth and final article in a series describing many of the components of a successful Data Governance…
Architecture is Objective, Design is Subjective – February 2009
Adrian Miley focuses on identifying the underlying architectural patterns that will be used to shape the overall solution.
The CMDB is an Operational Data Store
Charles Betz discusses why the CMDB is not a data warehouse, but rather an operational data store.
Business Rules – February 2009
Data professionals are prone to equating “integrity constraint” with “business rule.” Are they the same? Probing deeper, it’s generally accepted…
The Requirements Bill of Materials: A Walkthrough
Bill Lewis describes a model for application requirements based on a bill-of-materials metamodel.
The Last Lecture from Randy Pausch
This is a complete review of the book The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. This review is written by the…