Enterprise Architecture & Popkin’s System Architect
Did you catch the new movement in town: Enterprise Architecture? Well, enterprise architecture is a new term that draws upon…
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Product Review – Popkin Software’s System Architect
How System Architect Measures Up Now that we understand what Enterprise Architecture is all about, what features should a tool…
Finding Meaning in Systems
Published in TDAN.com October 2002 Our current definition of, “information,” is missing the most important component, namely meaning. Information systems…
A 3D Software Architecture Framework
Published in TDAN.com October 2002 Overview The endeavors most commonly seen today in the IT world have a wide coverage…
Getting Down to Data Basics
Published in TDAN.com October 2002 Some daring young enterprises embark on Web-enabled database implementation with nothing more than a bevy…
Mars Orbiter Disaster – A Failure of Data Management
Published in TDAN.com October 2002 The disastrous accident of the 1999 Mars Climate Orbiter quickly became part of the lore…
Business Rules Grammar Part 2 – Thingee Business Rule Classification Scheme
Published in TDAN.com July 2002 Articles in this series – Part 1, Part 3 English grammar classifies the words and…
Business Intelligence and CRM: Staying Alive in the New Economy
Published in TDAN.com July 2002 Executive Summary With the introduction of CRM comes the need to cut costs, improve…
Data Vault Series 1 – Data Vault Overview
Published in TDAN.com July 2002 There is a new home for the Data Vault: www.datavaultalliance.com Articles from this series –…
A Universal Person and Organization Data Model
Published in TDAN.com July 2002 Author’s Note: Ideas in this article are based on the work of Martin Fowler in…