Business Rules – August 2009
Creating a shared business vocabulary is an important up-front cost of doing business effectively in today’s ever more knowledge-intensive world.…
Architecture Made Easy, Part 5
Corporate assets of value are people, property, and data. While people and property assets within publicly traded companies are typically…
Architecture Is Objective, Design Is Subjective – August 2009
In designing any distributed enterprise data architecture, one of the most important activities is decomposing the domain to produce logical…
Insights into the Interplay of Data Architecture Components
Data architecture components address mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive functionalities required to carry out the business goals. These components, though…
The Ghost in the Machine
Now that hierarchical data structures are popular again because of XML, their full hierarchical processing is still being limited to…
DAMA Corner August 2009
Loretta Mahon Smith provides a DAMA update.
Jedox Announces a New Development for its Open-Source OLAP Palo Product
Palo product is the industry's first free ODBO driver (MDX) in the cost-free download of Palo for Excel.
Proven Strategies for Executing Large-Scale Data Modeling Projects
Satyajeet Dhumne provides an introduction to proven strategies that IT managers can find useful for large-scale data modeling projects.
Interview with Steve Hoberman
Robert S. Seiner interviews Steve Hoberman about his new book, Data Modeling for the Business. They also discuss the DAMA…
Dimensions of Data Architecture
This article identifies enterprise data architecture dimensions that are used to analyze the requirements, constraints and boundaries in deciding an…