A Step Ahead: Hierarchies – Boon or Bane?
This is a follow-up article to last quarter’s “A Step Ahead: Categories – Boon or Bane.” There’s an old cliché…
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The AI Playbook: Providing Important Reminders to Data Professionals
Eric Siegel’s “The AI Playbook” serves as a crucial guide, offering important insights for data professionals and their internal customers…
Legal Issues for Data Professionals: A New Data Licensing Model
Setting the Stage: Data as a Business Asset This column presents a new model for licensing and sharing data, one that…
A Step Ahead: Categories – Boon or Bane?
Do you love or hate organizing papers and objects in your home? For those that hate it, why do you…
Who Needs A Data Model Anyway?
These days, there is much conversation about the necessity of the data model. The data model has been around for…
Considerations for MDM and Digital Transformation
In today’s digital business ecosystem, digital transformation is no longer an option for modern businesses. The foundation of a business’s…
NoSQL and Multi-Model Database Use Cases
NoSQL database systems continue to gain traction, but they are still not widely understood. There is more than one type…
Data Professional Introspective: Data Provider Management – Part 3
In Part 1, we discussed the front end of the lifecycle – developing requirements for, and selecting data sources. In…
Why You Should Care About Data Modeling
Many software developers distrust data architecture practices such as data modeling. They associate these practices with rigid and bureaucratic processes…
Should We Consider Banishing CIOs?
“First thing we do, let’s banish all of the CIOs.” Too harsh? Shakespeare was much harder on lawyers. But the…