Who Needs A Data Model Anyway?
These days, there is much conversation about the necessity of the data model. The data model has been around for…
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Architecture For Cloud Based Processing
Data in the Cloud For a variety of motivations, many organizations have decided to place data and processing on the…
Integrating & Analyzing the Medical Record
It happens a thousand times a day. Every time someone partakes in medical care, a record of the care is…
Architecture for the Data Lake
For a while now, vendors have been advocating that people put their data in a data lake when they put…
Inmon Architecture Versus Kimball Architecture – Revisited
Introduction We are living in the age of a data revolution, and more corporations are realizing that to lead—or in…
Unlocking the Secrets of Your Call Center
In today’s world, corporations everywhere have call centers. It is through the call center that the corporation can communicate directly…
Hearing the Voice of Your Customer
What do these very diverse businesses have in common? TWA. PAN AM. Woolworth’s. Sports Authority. Staples. Banana Republic. They have one…
Law of Unintended Consequences
Many years ago, there was an IT department. The role of the IT department was to extend the business of…
Getting Big Data Right: A Checklist to Evaluate Your Environment
Anyone who has been awake for the past few years cannot but help to have noticed that there is a…
Data Architecture, Where Go’est Thou?
The other day, I ran across an article that discussed data architecture. The article had an “old” architecture and the…