I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.” — Olliver Wendell Holmes We seem to appreciate simple ...

The CIA has some interesting things to say about data governance in their “Simple Sabotage Field Manual.” So much so that I think this historic document from the era of the Office of Strategic ...

Artificial intelligence has entered a phase that feels both inevitable and strangely precarious. The hype is unmistakable. So is the sense that we are still early — too early — for the broader ...

The modern workforce is no longer bound by location, time zone, or corporate networks. Data engineers, analysts, and business users now access critical systems from home offices, shared workspaces, ...

Entity relationship diagram (ERD) is one of the most widely used technique for data modeling. An ERD developed during the conceptual data modeling phase of the database development process is ...

We are living in the age of a data revolution, and more corporations are realizing that to lead—or in some cases, to survive—they need to harness their data wealth effectively. The data warehouse, due ...

In our last entry, we talked about assessment. Now we’re moving into the design phase of our information management program. Here, we reap the knowledge we gained in the assessment phase into the ...

It would be hard to imagine a data model that didn’t include persons, either as individuals or as groups. Models contain people in one of two ways: as organizational structures or as playing roles in ...

The advent of big data has transformed the data management landscape, presenting unprecedented opportunities and formidable challenges: colossal volumes of data, diverse formats, and high velocities ...

The concept of being holistic embraces a comprehensive and interconnected view of various aspects of life, considering them as a whole rather than isolated parts. The concept of being holistic ...

I was recently asked to present “Enterprise Ontology Design and Implementation Best Practices” to a group of motivated ontologists and wanna-be ontologists. I was flattered to be asked, but I really ...

In the last few months, we have seen the wave of Artificial Intelligence break on the shores of wide-scale business adoption and mainstream media coverage of Large Language Models, most famously ...