Unwired Tap – July 2007
A review of the media coverage of iPhone as well as other wireless and digital living current events.
A New Way of Thinking – July 2007
There are always going to be data issues that require attention and remediation. This article looks at the protocols that…
Data Structure: Data Modeling or XML?
XML is a perfectly good vehicle for describing data to be transmitted from one place to another. It is not…
Data Integration Requires Trust
When there is a lack of trust, there may be unnecessary boundaries and political obstacles that are the underlying causes…
What Does Manage Your Data and Information Assets Mean?
For data and information to rise to the level of capital and people as assets in the eyes of the…
Data Quality and the Project Life Cycle
Data quality tasks should be integrated into the project plan, and careful planning at the beginning of a project will…
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.
Terminology, Semantics and the Meanings of Names
Basic terminology principles help to understand how naming conventions can be formed and then applied to relate the meanings of…
Data-Driven and Agile Methods: Can We Get Along?
It is possible for data-driven principles to be reconciled with those espoused by Agile enthusiasts, and these data-driven methods are…
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.