Software Product Selection: Improved Methods, Improved Results
Even when all the participants agree at the outset to pursue the best solution for the organization as a whole,…
Controlling Hierarchical Structure Processing From SQL
This article presents some of the more powerful and advanced hierarchical processing operations and capabilities possible with ANSI SQL hierarchical…
The Decision Model December 2009
Portions of this article are drawn from the book, The Decision Model: A Business Logic Framework Linking Business and Technology,…
The Power of a Common Business Language
This article explains how companies create and standardize their common business language Ð terms, definitions, and related metrics Ð to…
SELECT * FROM Celko – December 2009
A professional programmer plans for the future on any platform, hardware or software.
Interview with Larry English
This special feature is an interview of Larry P. English conducted by Robert S. Seiner. The interview focuses on…
Lean IT Value Streams: An Entity Lifecycle Approach
This article describes a framework for both managing and understanding IT value and its underpinnings, incorporating principles from Lean, the…
Best Practices for IT Service Management
How do you quantitatively measure the value of IT services to your organization? ÒI canÕtÓ and ÒI donÕtÓ are…
DAMA Corner November 2009
Loretta Mahon Smith provides an update on DAMA activities and chapters.
Business Event Management
Mike Gorman offers an approach that can capture the business event transactions themselves, the history of the business event transactions…