Secrets of Software Maintenance
Published in TDAN.com July 2000 Secret #1 – There are no secrets. If you can accept this reality, you are…
Data Topics
Advanced Metadata Architecture
Published in TDAN.com July 2000 Corporations are demanding more and more functionality from all of their IT (information technology) systems,…
How To Do a Data Warehouse Assessment (And Why)
Published in TDAN.com July 2000 Why Assessments and an Assessment Methodology are Needed – What an Assessment is In the…
The Knowledge Advantage – Maximizing Data Quality in the Data Warehouse Through Enterprise-Wide Understanding
Published in TDAN.com April 2000 ABSTRACT A critical success factor for a data warehouse is the perception of the quality…
How Much Can Data Analysis be Automated?
Published in TDAN.com April 2000 INTRODUCTION In the not too distant past, people wanting to perform a simple linear regression…
A Framework for Characterizing Knowledge Management Methods, Practices & Technologies
Published in TDAN.com April 2000 Abstract Knowledge management is not one single discipline. Rather, it an integration of numerous endeavors…
Critical Success Factors for Data Warehouse Engineering Part 2
Published in TDAN.com April 2000 Articles in this series – Part 1, Part 2 CSF: Data Warehouse Technology Only after…
Business Processes and Logical Process Modeling – An Overview
Published in TDAN.com April 2000 To design an application to provide optimum benefits, the architect, designer and programmers must thoroughly…
Y2K Post Mortem
Published in TDAN.com April 2000 The greatly hyped, widely feared transition to Y2K has passed with relatively little consequence. To…
Questions Metadata Can Answer
Published in TDAN.com January 2000 Built on Metadata The world of information technology has “grown-up” dramatically in the last fifteen…