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The Emerging Criticality of Enterprise Metadata
By David Loshin on March 15, 2012
What exactly is meant by the term “metadata”? Ten years ago, the most common definition would have been “data…
Converged Systems and the Analytic Database
By William McKnight on March 9, 2012
Change permeates the Communications business landscape, necessitating the coordination of numerous systems to understand customer behavior across the entire…
Data Security, Data Governance, and Information Architecture
By David Loshin on January 24, 2012
We have been doing a lot of work with clients who are essentially seeking to renovate their information architectures,…
MDM and Big Data, from Batch to Real-Time
By William McKnight on January 22, 2012
“Big data” describes data that has the potential to grow much more rapidly than its small brethren data. While…
Agile Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
By William McKnight on November 23, 2011
When you hear the word ‘agile’, what do you think of? Your users being agile in the sense of…
Trustworthy Reports vs. Improved Decision-Making: When Do You Blame the Data?
By David Loshin on November 7, 2011
The flip side of promoting the benefits of business intelligence highlights the scenarios in which the opposite occurs: in…
A Single View of MDM Concepts: Time To Fish or Cut Bait
By David Loshin on September 12, 2011
The continuous reverberation of discussions about the definition of customer may ring in your ears, but the fact remains…
Shortcuts and Loops – Dealing With Transitivity in Data Models
By Alec Sharp on May 20, 2011
You never know what topics people will find interesting. My last couple of posts looked at making Fourth and…
Recursion in Data Modeling - Part 2
By Tom Haughey on May 16, 2011
In the previous blog, we discussed the concept of recursion. In this blog we talk about ways of implementing…
Stream Computing: When Low Latency Processing Matters
By William McKnight on May 5, 2011
I spent some time with Violin Memory on an expo show floor recently. They were demonstrating their memory arrays. …
