Web Mining
Published in TDAN.com January 2000 Intoduction Increasingly the first point of contact between a customer and a company is at…
XML & EDI – Peaceful Co-Existence
Published in TDAN.com January 2000 Electronic commerce is not a new concept. Large companies have been using electronic data interchange…
Extraction, Transformation, and Load Issues and Approaches
Published in TDAN.com January 2000 Introduction Many of the Business Intelligence tools look way cool. They provide graphs, moving targets,…
A Simplified Approach to Information Stewardship (Revisited)
Published in TDAN.com January 2000 Author’s Note: Several years ago I was fortunate enough to read an “old” (at the…
Business Requirements Gathering – An Overview
Published in TDAN.com January 2000 Requirements gathering (data and process) is a vital part of successful project management and application…
Reinvent Yourself
Reflection is a typical activity for this season. Take a quick inventory of yourself: height, weight, appearance, demeanor, career direction…
Entities, Attributes and Elements: What Language(s) Are We Speaking?
“Whoooo… could imagine…” “It Can’t Happen Here” — Frank Zappa Who could imagine…that meta data, data definitions, and data definition…
Information Systems Plan:
Published in TDAN.com September 1999 Rationale for an Information Systems Plan Every year, $300-700 million dollar corporations spend about 5%…
The Emergence and Potential of Enterprise Information Portals (EIPs)
Enterprise Information Portals are also called Corporate Portals or Enterprise Portals. They provide ready access to information from the Data…
The Next Level of Information Systems
"If information is really useful, our appetite for it is insatiable." --Thomas H. Davenport, "Saving IT's Soul: Human-Centered Information Management"…