Data is Like Contaminated Water
What if the water that flowed through the pipes in your house or apartment was contaminated and you knew that if…
Business Intelligence Features
Business Intelligence Features
Unlocking the Secrets of Your Call Center
In today’s world, corporations everywhere have call centers. It is through the call center that the corporation can communicate directly…
Hearing the Voice of Your Customer
What do these very diverse businesses have in common? TWA. PAN AM. Woolworth’s. Sports Authority. Staples. Banana Republic. They have one…
Law of Unintended Consequences
Many years ago, there was an IT department. The role of the IT department was to extend the business of…
Data is the New Bacon
Data is hot because … everything seems to always come back to the data. And there is so much of…
Death by Spreadsheet
I suppose most of us have heard the phrase “death by PowerPoint,” referring to those occasions when the burping, animated clip…
Data Architecture, Where Go’est Thou?
The other day, I ran across an article that discussed data architecture. The article had an “old” architecture and the…
What Does It Mean to “Govern Data”?
Once you have answered the question of what it means to Ògovern data,Ó the next question they will ask is…
Impressions of the 2017 DGIQ Conference
The 2017 Data Governance and Information Quality (DGIQ) Conference (www.dgiqconference.com), hosted by Debtech International and DATAVERSITY, took place in sunny…
Celebrating 20 Years of TDAN.com
On June 22, 1997, The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com) went live on the internet. The publication started online at stargate.net/TDAN…