Hearing the Voice of Your Customer
What do these very diverse businesses have in common? TWA. PAN AM. Woolworth’s. Sports Authority. Staples. Banana Republic. They have one…
Data Operations News, Articles, & Education
Get a thorough Data Operations education through TDAN’s Business Intelligence articles, news, and blogs.
Data is Risky Business: Are We the Bad Guys?
My late grandfather liked westerns. He liked that the bad guy was always easy to spot. The bad guy was…
Ways That Big Data Impact HR
Today, big data provides immense benefits for businesses, starting from sales, to marketing and accounting, and everything in between. Probably,…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Data-Centric’s Role in the Reduction of Complexity
Complexity Drives Cost in Information Systems A system with twice the number of lines of code will typically cost more…
It’s All in the Data: Four Horsemen of the Data Apocalypse
While I was attending a recent data governance conference, one of the better-recognized speakers, Mike Atkins of the EDM Council,…
Semantic Hierarchical Processing Advancements
A powerful new general purpose semantic hierarchical processor model for semantic processing can supersede SQL using advanced natural operations. This…
Database Standards Can Be a Problem
One of my favorite quotes about standards, in general, is – The best thing about standards is that there are so…
Recursive Queries for Hierarchical Data Retrieval
One of the most fascinating features of SQL is its ability to execute recursive queries. Like sub-queries, recursive queries save…
Change Data Habits Before it is Too Late
The management of data is very similar to the management of one’s health. One way they are similar became very…
It’s All in the Data: It was 20 Years Ago Today
This online publication, The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com), will celebrate its twentieth anniversary in the coming months of 2017. Twenty…