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 ...

Running a business with dirty data is like trying to drive a car blindfolded — it’s only a matter of time before disaster strikes. Dirty data doesn’t just create inefficiencies, it drains resources at ...

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 field of data mining, like statistics, concerns itself with “learning from data” or “turning data into information”. In this article we will look at the connection between data mining and ...

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 ...

The primary aim of data and analytics (D&A) governance, our research has taught us, is aligning data and analytic content with business objectives, including regulatory requirements and stakeholder ...

The quality of data used in business is more important now than ever before. Accordingly, in order for organizations to deliver good business results, their data must be accurate, and the use of that ...

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 ...

Recently, I was giving a presentation and someone asked me which segment of “the DAMA wheel” did I think semantics most affected. I said I thought it affected all of them pretty profoundly, but ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing industries by enabling real-time data collection and analysis from many connected devices. IoT applications rely heavily on real-time data streaming to drive ...

In my previous TDAN.com column, “Piloting the Plane – EDM Program and Project Management,” I explored perspectives, structures, cultures, approaches and activities needed to establish and successfully ...

The role of data products has become pivotal, driving organizations towards insightful decision-making and competitive advantage. However, ensuring the achievement of these data products demands the ...