Guidelines for Building World-Class Business Glossaries: The Kick Off Word
There’s a high premium on knowing how to craft great definitions. Every business analyst should know how. To get…
Metadata Management News, Articles, & Education
Get a thorough Metadata Management education through TDAN’s Business Intelligence articles, news, and blogs.
Best Practices for Agile Documentation
Introduction Ideally, an agile document is just barely good enough, or just barely sufficient, for the situation at hand. Documentation…
Business Glossaries and Metadata: Using the Glossary to Drive Data Quality
I have been fortunate to lead many data quality improvement efforts over my professional life. Those projects have included quality…
The Data of the Game
I am a big sports fan. I follow my Pittsburgh Pirates, my Penguins, my Steelers, and my Pitt Panthers. I…
Rationale for Enterprise Governance
The following is an extract from Chapter 2 of Michael M. Gorman’s new book Enterprise Governance Community of Interest Handbook…
Bad Data’s Impact on Decision-Making
Having been around the block, we data professionals have seen many cases of data which could be construed as “imaginative.” …
Toward a Better Understanding of Metadata – Repository
The Metadata Repository offers a place to put stuff. It is inherently complex and requires careful management and administration. The…
The Business of Data: Metadata is Marketing
“I don’t have time to document metadata.” If you’re in the data management or software industry, I’m sure you’ve heard…
Ethics, Shmethics
Ethics is the new black in Information Management. If you don’t believe me, consider the rise of the debate on…
From the Publisher – Happy 1st Anniversary & Questionnaire
With the July 2016 issue of TDAN.com, we celebrate our first year with the new format and new relationships. More…