The Digital Transformer: Digital (Re)Education
Recently, I watched The Intern. Have you seen it? It stars Robert De Niro as Ben, a 70-year old widowed…
Business Intelligence Columns
Business Intelligence Columns
The Business of Data: Focus on the Data that is Important to Your Business
A key tenet of my information management practice is that any data strategy needs to be driven by the organization’s…
The Book Look: Data Novels
I love good novels. I read and learn from a lot of technology texts (and we publish many of them),…
Data is Risky Business: Training is More Than a Monkey with Bad PowerPoint
I’m wearing my grumpy curmudgeon hat again this month. The Irish Computer Society recently published survey results from their annual…
Data Professional Introspective – Data Agility & Taming the Interface Chaos
For Enterprise Data Architects, the most creative work—the epitome of professional satisfaction—is developing elegant designs for the target data layer…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Seven Warning Signs of Appliosclerosis
Of all the dangers that befall those on the journey to data centrism, by far the greatest danger is Appliosclerosis.…
The Business of Data – Make Your Data Management Project a Peacock
I have a lot of admiration for the peacock. At its core, it’s an average-looking, skinny little bird. But that’s…
Data Professional Introspective – Evolving the Business Tribe: Centrality of the Business Glossary
Many years ago, when CASE tools were touted as the solution to everything, ERwin was just hitting the market, and…
Data is Risky Business
Welcome to the first of a regular series of TDAN.com columns from Daragh OBrien. Daragh’s column, Data is Risky Business, will…
Business Glossaries and Metadata
TDAN.com is proud to introduce this new quarterly column from Lowell Fryman called Business Glossaries and Metadata. In this column…