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…
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…
Architecture Made Easy, Part 7
A data road map can be a useful tool for illuminating the path that will lead to an improved level…
Architecture Is Objective, Design Is Subjective November 2009
Avoiding Òmere implementation detailÓ is about ensuring that the IT architecture framework only provides information when it is needed at…
Architecture Made Easy, Part 5
Corporate assets of value are people, property, and data. While people and property assets within publicly traded companies are typically…
Architecture Is Objective, Design Is Subjective – August 2009
In designing any distributed enterprise data architecture, one of the most important activities is decomposing the domain to produce logical…
DAMA Corner February 2009
Welcome to DAMA Corner, a source of information for data management professionals here in TDAN.com, the industry-leading publication for people…
DAMA Corner November 2008
Deborah Henderson and John Schley provide FAQs about the new DAMA Foundation.
CDI and MDM Are Broken, Part 2
Part 2 of this article explains the application of semantic technologies to master data management applications, including customer data integration.…