Privacy and Internet of Things (IoT)
What is Internet of Things (IoT)? The term “Internet of Things” may be considered a misnomer. The “Internet” with a…
Data Architecture News, Articles, & Education
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Framework for Managing Knowledge, Content and Documents
Considerations and Guidelines This article focuses on four of the main focal areas within the discipline of unstructured Information Management…
A Data Governance Maturity Model
In this article, Bob Seiner shares that companies in the process of planning their Data Governance evolution in a systematic…
Data Architecture COMN Sense – Is the Data Warehouse Dead?
It was a pleasure to attend a data warehousing event in Austin, Texas in early December to take a few…
Data Architecture COMN Sense: What are Data and Information?
Occasionally I encounter discussions on various social media sites arguing passionately about the definitions of the terms “data” and “information.”…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Do Data Lakes Make My Enterprise Look Data-Centric?
Where Did “Data Lakes” Come From? Many large firms are implementing “Data Lakes.” The term, and the practice, came into…
Data Architecture COMN Sense – The Missing Logical Layer in Data Management
Around 2009 someone used the term “NoSQL” to describe an emerging class of database management systems (DBMSs) that, as the…
Data Architecture COMN Sense: Relationships in Structured Data
In my blog last month, we looked at five aspects of relationship types, relationships in graphs, and how relationships are…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Data-Centric vs. Data-Driven
In this column, I am making the case for Data Centric architectures for enterprises. There is a huge economic advantage…
Converting an Essential Model to a Real Database Design, Part 3
Introduction This is the third part of a three-part article intended to clarify the translation required between the essential view…