A New Way of Thinking – October 2005
Published in TDAN.com October 2005 What usually happens when senior management at a company begins to understand the impacts cause…
Eye on TDWI – San Diego – August 2005
I especially look forward to TDWI’s World Conference on data warehousing and business intelligence when it is held in San…
Acquiring a Metadata Repository Tool
Published in TDAN.com July 2005 For multiple reasons many IT organizations have “down-sized” over the last few years. The result…
Expensive Lessons From the Past: Profit From Them
Published in TDAN.com July 2005 1.0 Metadata Management To be successful within a Data Management environment, the enterprise must have…
Modeling Baseball Cards: A Case Study
Published in TDAN.com July 2005 Ok, when did you first become aware of data management? No, it wasn’t in your…
The Enterprise Data Model
Introduction An Enterprise Data Model is an integrated view of the data produced and consumed across an entire organization. It…
Data Stewardship Framework – Part 2
Published in TDAN.com July 2005 This article is adapted from the book “Universal Meta Data Models” by David Marco &…
What Managers Want
Published in TDAN.com July 2005 Preamble This article was written for the 8th Anniversary issue of The Data Administration Newsletter.…
Data and Database Management: Centralized Versus Decentralized
Published in TDAN.com July 2005 Traditionally in many organizations, the control of data resources has been centralized due to the…
Globalization is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Published in TDAN.com July 2005 Overview Recently, I had the opportunity to provide a metadata tutorial to an academic conference…