Measuring the Quality of Models
Published in TDAN.com October 2000 INTRODUCTION Many professions have plenty of yardsticks for measuring their version of ‘quality’. Sadly, data…
Data Warehouse Failures
Published in TDAN.com October 2000 “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dis—-“ General John B. Sedgwick The general’s last…
The Last, Best Place to Integrate the Enterprise: Why Organizations Need an Enterprise Data Warehouse
Published in TDAN.com July 2000 Abstract. Today’s information-age enterprise is in a constant dialog with suppliers, customers, competitors, markets, resources,…
An Update on the Database Wars
Published in TDAN.com July 2000 The Big Three DBMS vendors continue to fight the database wars. With new features, claims,…
How To Do a Data Warehouse Assessment (And Why)
Published in TDAN.com July 2000 Why Assessments and an Assessment Methodology are Needed – What an Assessment is In the…
Advanced Metadata Architecture
Published in TDAN.com July 2000 Corporations are demanding more and more functionality from all of their IT (information technology) systems,…
A Repository Model – The Analysis Model
Published in TDAN.com July 2000 For several years now, your author has been searching for a catalogue to use for…
A New Paradigm for Successful Acquisition of Information Systems
Abstract: Most information systems projects are over budget, under specified, delivered late, and fail to meet organizational expectations. A key…
Secrets of Software Maintenance
Published in TDAN.com July 2000 Secret #1 – There are no secrets. If you can accept this reality, you are…
Demystifying Document Strategy Design
Published in TDAN.com July 2000 Most organizations do not consider themselves to be in the document business. Nevertheless, documents are…