If You Wish to Change the World, Start with Yourself: An Alternative Metaphor for Object Interaction
Published in TDAN.com July 2001 Abstract During the past ten years, requirements on functionality of business applications have been slowly…
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Enterprise Information Portal Revolution
Published in TDAN.com July 2001 Internet and web technologies have profoundly changed the way we view and interact with information.…
Where Does a Document Strategy Fit in the Corporate Picture?
Published in TDAN.com July 2001 Documents play a significant role in nearly every business strategy or initiative. Therefore, documents should…
The Role of XML in Business Re-Engineering
Published in TDAN.com July 2001 1. ABSTRACT The Internet and corporate Intranets present opportunities to re-engineer business processes for direct…
A Column by Any Other Name is Not a Data Element
Published in TDAN.com July 2001 Background This article describes an approach to achieve enterprise-wide data standardization through the specification, implementation,…
Accumulative E-Business Intelligence
Published in TDAN.com July 2001 Business Intelligence, decision support, analytical capability—it’s all about attempting to predict and influence the future.…
Meta Data ROI: The Evolution of Business
Published in TDAN.com July 2001 Business Challenges It is said, “the only constant in life is change”. Never has this…
The Database Report – April 2001
Well, another quarter has gone by and many skirmishes have been fought in the database wars. As usual, Oracle is…
Practical Tips for Ensuring Data Quality in Global Data Warehouses
Published in TDAN.com April 2001 This paper focuses on a few practical tips for ensuring data quality specifically in the…
Dealing with De-Normalization of Lookup Tables
Published in TDAN.com April 2001 I am asked several times a year to create a single look-up table rather than…