How to Avoid the Requirements Trap
Jason Williscroft has written elsewhere about sources of inertia that can send an EDM project sideways. In that piece he…
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The Business of Data: Data-Driven Business Transformation
What it Means for Today’s Data Management Professional It’s an exciting time to be in data management. It is one…
Protection of PII Data is Vital: A Slice of PII
“It is not me!” I am not the one making the rules. I was not the person who decided that…
Insight … So What?
There is a lot of hype around analytics today, with most of it centered on the word “insight.” It seems that…
DAMA International Community Corner: January 2016
New Year, New Start! Refreshed after the holiday break, the team at DAMA International are looking forward to a breakthrough…
How to Manage Null Values in Your Data Warehouse
I’m sure many business intelligence developers have experienced a customer asking why there are null values in their report and…
Data Modeling Techniques – Efficiency of Meta-Entities in an ERD
This article considers the simplification of entity-relationship diagrams by the use of meta-entities. Indexes to measure the effectiveness of simplification…
It’s the Information, Not the Medium
In a recent training course my company conducted on Information Governance and Data Privacy, I found myself in an interesting position:…
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…
So What if Senior Leadership Loses Interest – Whatever it Takes
One topic came up in conversations I had three times this week. The topic was “Senior Leadership is losing interest”…