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…
Metadata Management News, Articles, & Education
Get a thorough Metadata Management education through TDAN’s Business Intelligence articles, news, and blogs.
Safely Driving Infonomic Growth with Data Access Governance and Security
As enterprises race to become data-driven businesses, a latent tension is intensifying: Is data the “new oil”? A “toxic asset”?…
Get People to Be Data Stewards
Few organizations have all the technical and functional data stewards in place to handle the ever-increasing data-related questions and requests.…
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 Professional Introspective: Data Provider Management – Part 1
Why Your Organization Suffers This series of columns addresses an essential function that many organizations neglect, an overlooked set of…
Metadata is the Magic Behind Data Fabric
The main goal of creating an enterprise data fabric is not new. It is the ability to deliver the right data…
Are Data Lakehouses Secure and the Best of Both Worlds?
As we enter a new cloud-first era, advancements in technology have helped companies capture and capitalize on data as much…
Knowing What Lies Beneath
The Titanic set sail on its maiden voyage on April 10, 1912. Four days later on April 14th, the ship…
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…
There is Only One Data Governance
There is… but one… Data Governance. I know that some people will disagree with me. Maybe you are one who…