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Malcolm Chisholm

Malcolm Chisholm

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Malcolm Chisholm, Ph.D. has over 25 years of experience in enterprise information management and data management and has worked in a wide range of sectors. He specializes in setting up and developing enterprise information management units, master data management, and business rules. His experience includes the financial, manufacturing, government, and pharmaceutical industries. He is the author of the books: How to Build a Business Rules Engine; Managing Reference Data in Enterprise Databases; and Definition in Information Management. Malcolm writes numerous articles and is a frequent presenter at industry events. He runs the websites http://www.refdataportal.com; http://www.bizrulesengine.com; and http://www.data-definition.com. Malcolm is the winner of the 2011 DAMA International Professional Achievement Award.

White Papers by Malcolm

Demonstrating the ROI of Data Discovery and Profiling

Webcasts by Malcolm

Data Discovery and Profiling: the Challenge and the ROI

Posts by this Author

Conceptual Data Models versus Business Semantics
Posted on February 28, 2011

The Problem of Individuation
Posted on January 22, 2011

Metadata in Non-Metamodels
Posted on December 6, 2010

Master Data Entities: Entities or Collections?
Posted on October 18, 2010

Will Ontology Attack Data Modeling?
Posted on September 13, 2010

A Brief Review of the Term “Entity” - from Plato to the Semantic Web
Posted on August 9, 2010

Is “Data Model” an Abused Term?
Posted on July 8, 2010

Entity versus Attribute Definitions
Posted on June 13, 2010

Justifying Definitions for Data
Posted on May 16, 2010

Definitions in Information Management
Posted on April 14, 2010

Does Data Modeling Have a Cloudy Future?
Posted on March 29, 2010

The Canonical Data Model
Posted on March 8, 2010

Inter-Model Change Management
Posted on February 18, 2010