The Data-Centric Revolution: The Sky is Falling (Let’s Make Lemonade)
Recently IDC predicted that IT spending will drop by 5% due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] Last week, Gartner went further by…
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The Data-Centric Revolution: Report From the Front Lines
Earlier this month we hosted the second annual Data-Centric Architecture Forum (#DCAF2020) in Fort Collins, CO. These are the highlights.…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Semantics and the DAMA Wheel
Recently, I was giving a presentation and someone asked me which segment of “the DAMA wheel” did I think semantics…
Principles for the Data-Centric Paradigm – Part 2
There is a movement to upend traditional thinking about information systems by putting data and meaning at the center of…
The Unfolding of the Data-Centric Paradigm – Part 1
There is a movement to upend traditional thinking about information systems by putting data and meaning at the center of…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Lawyers, Guns and Money
My book “The Data-Centric Revolution” will be out this summer. I will also be presenting at Dataversity’s Data Architecture Summit…
The Data-Centric Revolution: The 1st Annual Data Centric Architecture Forum
In the past few weeks, we (the author’s company) hosted a new Data-Centric Architecture Conference. One of the conclusions made…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Implementing a Data-Centric Architecture
At some point, there will be full stack data-centric architectures available to buy, to use as a service or as…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Governance in a Data-Centric Environment
How a Data-Centric Environment Becomes Harder to Govern A traditional data landscape has the advantage of being extremely silo-ed. By…
The Marriage of Metadata and Data Governance
Data governance is the people, process, and technology required to create a consistent and proper handling of an organization’s data…