The Small Business Market – July 2007
Unfortunately, small-to-medium size businesses sometimes suffer from data management strategic tunnel vision, but there is a cure!
The Data Modeling Addict – July 2007
The sixth of a series of articles on the Data Model Scorecard™, this article focuses on the standards category.
The Database Report – July 2007
Craig Mullins provides his quarterly review of the activities within the database market during April, May, and June of 2007.
Data Warehousing ROI: Justifying and Assessing a Data Warehouse
Drawing on the data warehousing literature, survey data, theory, and eight case studies, seven justification and assessment propositions are presented.
Four Ways to Build a Data Warehouse
It has been said there are as many ways to build data warehouses as there are companies to build them.
Data Warehousing ROI: Justifying and Assessing a Data Warehouse
Data warehouses require a sizeable commitment of organizational resources. As a result, there is considerable interest in how they are…
Integrating Structured and Unstructured Data Using Text Tagging and Annotation
The nature of unstructured data makes it hard to search, retrieve, and analyze; directly integrating it with structured data is…
From Short Stack to Competitive Advantage: IHOP’s Pursuit of Data Quality
Driven by the need to better understand its business, the International House of Pancakes (IHOP) appointed a data quality team…
Building a Data-Centric Organization
Our main objective is to identify a needed paradigm shift for organizations regarding data, its importance, and its value.
Enterprise Data Modeling: Lost Art or Essential Science?
This article explains the origin of data modeling and the significance of EDM; compares top-down, bottom-up, and middle-out EDM approaches;…