Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Data Catalog War Stories
Data Catalogs have great promise. They can provide the businessperson, analyst, architect, system engineer and data scientist alike the ability…
Data Architecture Columns
Data Architecture Columns
Data Value Chain: Lego Framework – Level 2
“Data Driven” as a key word is not new. Success stories of implementing a data driven culture or creating successful…
The Data-Centric Revolution: OWL as a Discipline
Many developers pooh-pooh OWL (the dyslexic acronym for the Web Ontology Language). Many decry it as “too hard,” which seems…
Data Value Chain: Lego Framework – Level 1
In reference to the prior column on enterprise data management and high level lego framework, this column reviews in detail…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Headless BI and the Metrics Layer
Occasionally, I pick up on trends in my peripheral vision. These are trends that aren’t in the center of my…
Through the Looking Glass: Suspending Judgement on Synthetic Data
Synthetic Data is, according to Gartner and other industry oracles, “hot, hot, hot.” In fact, according to Gartner, “60 percent…
Data is Risky Business: The Importance of Fundamentals
In my September 2020 Data is Risky Business column for TDAN.com, I wrote about the strategy lessons for data that we…
Data Speaks for Itself: Data Speaks as Product
One of the greatest contributions to the understanding of data quality and data quality management happened in the 1980s when…
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Edge Computing Challenges and Strategies
This column focuses on challenges of edge computing and explore strategy considerations for implementing and utilizing edge computing in the…
The Book Look: Collecting, Connecting, and Correcting the Dots
I know very few people who specialize in one area of IT/business architecture yet have practical knowledge of how all…