Why Disciplined Agile?
This article explores why you should consider adopting the Disciplined Agile (DA) toolkit from several points of view: Why Should…
Data Management News, Articles, & Education
Get a thorough Data Management education through TDAN’s Business Intelligence articles, news, and blogs.
Data Cleansing Vs. Data Enrichment – What is the Difference?
Tucked away in portals across the internet, in different formats, with bad headers, strange encoding, and more – the world…
Recognizing and Treating “Tableitis”
Tableitis (tay-bul-eye’-tus) is a widespread condition suffered by professional data modelers, commonly called “TABLE THINK.” This condition was first recognized…
Complicated vs Complex Problems
Not that long ago our information needs seemed much simpler. If we wanted to make a phone call, we had…
Data Management 20/20: The Trinity of the Business Glossary
Essential Components forthe Business/IT Lexicographer Today’s organizations often struggle with how poorly their information systems perform. Sources of this poor…
DAMA International Community Corner: Update
Welcome to DAMA Corner, a source of information for data management professionals here in TDAN.com, the industry leading publication for people interested…
The Antidote is Facts – Facts Require Data
Back in 2017, I wrote an article titled There are No Facts … Without Data. It is time to revisit…
Zen and the Art of Data Maintenance: Big Data, More Data, BIG Issue
More, more, more! We are culturally conditioned to want more. More money, more fun, more pleasure, more accomplishment, more intelligence,…
Toward Data Governance’s 4th Era
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Has there ever been a time where more…
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Two Types of Graph Databases
This column focuses on 1) two classes of graph databases – Property and Semantic 2) how Property and Semantic graph…