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…
Data Modeling News, Articles, & Education
Get a thorough Data Modeling education through TDAN’s Business Intelligence articles, news, and blogs.
Domain-Driven Development: Part 4
Data Mesh and Data as a Product In the first article, I introduced and explained the approach to application development…
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…
Domain-Driven Development: Part 2
Canonical Data Models and Overlapping Connections In the previous article, I introduced and explained the approach to application development called…
Zen and the Art of Data Maintenance: All Data is Suffering (Part 2)
In part 1 of this series, I shared how our reactions to data can cause a great deal of suffering…
Celebrating 25 Years of TDAN.com!
Twenty-five years ago on June 22, 1997, I published the first issue of The Data Administration Newsletter. Websites were new…
Domain-Driven Development: Part 1
Bounded Contexts / Ubiquitous Language My new book, Data Model Storytelling,[i] contains a section describing some of the most significant…
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…
Inmon Architecture Versus Kimball Architecture – Revisited
Introduction We are living in the age of a data revolution, and more corporations are realizing that to lead—or in…
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…