A Step Ahead: IoT Data Characteristics — Seven Vs
IoT (Internet of Things) incorporates many new and innovative technologies, such as sensors, smart devices, machine-to-machine communication, networking, advanced computing,…
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Data-Centric: How Big Things Get Done (in IT)
I read “How Big Things Get Done” when it first came out about six months ago.[1] I liked it then.…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Best Practices and Schools of Ontology Design
I was recently asked to present “Enterprise Ontology Design and Implementation Best Practices” to a group of motivated ontologists and…
The Data-Centric Revolution: “RDF Is Too Hard”
We hear this a lot. We hear it from very smart people. Just the other day we heard someone say…
Data Centric Revolution: Is a Knowledge Ontology the Missing Link?
You would think that after knocking around in semantics and knowledge graphs for over two decades I’d have had a…
Eyes on Data: An Approach to Measure Data ROI
Justifying any significant business investment is challenging. For data managers, the struggle is especially familiar. The difficulty is convincing decision…
A Step Ahead: Data Fabric and Data Mesh – Similarities and Differences
The terms Data Mesh and Data Fabric have been used extensively as data management solutions in conversations these days, and…
Data Professional Introspective: Capability Maturity Model Comparison
For the Enterprise Data Management Council (EDMC), I recently concluded a detailed comparison and mapping of the DMM to the…
Data Value Chain: EDM Block Framework – Levels 5 & 6
We have heard a lot in the news lately about cost cutting, operational reductions, and the dreaded news of layoffs.…
The Book Look: Technical Writing for Quality
Why would Technics Publications publish a book outside its specialty of data management? We published Graham Witt’s Technical Writing for…