METAbits – October 2002
Published in TDAN.com October 2002 Data Integration Market: More Doers, Fewer Dollars Due to the persistent need of organizations to…
Mars Orbiter Disaster – A Failure of Data Management
Published in TDAN.com October 2002 The disastrous accident of the 1999 Mars Climate Orbiter quickly became part of the lore…
Stewardship in 3-D: De Facto, Discipline, & Database
Published in TDAN.com October 2002 Introduction To effectively manage your company’s information assets – data, content & knowledge – it…
Measures of Data Model Value
Published in TDAN.com October 2002 Introduction In many organizations, analysis continues to be an area requiring constant justification. I.T. organizations…
A Profile of Adaptive Addressing
Published in TDAN.com October 2002 Introduction Adaptive Addressing has many aspects that appeal to application developers and database administrators alike;…
Getting Down to Data Basics
Published in TDAN.com October 2002 Some daring young enterprises embark on Web-enabled database implementation with nothing more than a bevy…
IT Portfolio Management
Published in TDAN.com October 2002 At any given time most Fortune 500 companies have dozens of information technology (IT) projects…
A 3D Software Architecture Framework
Published in TDAN.com October 2002 Overview The endeavors most commonly seen today in the IT world have a wide coverage…
Graphical Patterns for Data Models
Published in TDAN.com October 2002 1. INTRODUCTION One of the reasons that data modelers are tolerated is because they produce…
Finding Meaning in Systems
Published in TDAN.com October 2002 Our current definition of, “information,” is missing the most important component, namely meaning. Information systems…