• 2017

  • February

    • A Data Governance Maturity Model
    • Guidelines for Building World-Class Business Glossaries: The Kick Off Word
    • The Data Governance Coach: What Do You Include in a Data Quality Issue Log?
    • The Digital Transformer: Digital Delivery – Charles Betz’s New Book
    • The Relationship Between Data Quality and Philosophy
    • Introduction to Agile Project Management, Part 1
    • Non-Invasive Data Governance Online Training Now Available

  • January

    • Best Practices for Agile Documentation
    • There Are No Facts … Without Data
    • Data Professional Introspective: Comparable Data Management (Part 4)
    • You Can Run, but You Can’t Hide
    • The Book Look: Growing Business Intelligence
    • The Curious Case of Modern Consistency
    • It’s All in the Data: Data Anarchy vs Governance
    • MDM Needs Data Governance
    • Dancing Around BPM and Data Management
    • Data Architecture COMN Sense – Is the Data Warehouse Dead?
    • Data Governance Best Practice Award – Call for Submissions
    • Practical Points from the DGPO: Data Resolutions for 2017

• 2016

  • December

    • Business Glossaries and Metadata: Using the Glossary to Drive Data Quality
    • The Data Forecast: The Ridiculous CDO
    • Enterprise Data at Risk – Five Danger Signs of Data Integration
    • Data Quality Isn’t Everything
    • Upon Further Review – Data Governance Winter Conference 2016
    • Data Architecture COMN Sense: What are Data and Information?
    • The Data of the Game
    • Data is Risky Business: Data Ethics – Meet the New Boss (Same as the Old Boss)
    • Governance to Drive GDPR Compliance
    • The Data Centric Revolution: Do Data Lakes Make My Enterprise Look Data Centric?
    • Tips for Running Data Governance Forums
    • The Politics Of Data Governance: What We Can Learn From 2016 Presidential Elections?

  • November

    • The Ten (Database) Commandments
    • The Business of Data: The Importance of Business Process in Data Management
    • A Data Governance Manager Job Description
    • Data Architecture COMN Sense – The Missing Logical Layer in Data Management
    • Rationale for Enterprise Governance
    • DAMA International Community Corner: The DAMA Evolution Continues
    • How Enterprise-Level IT Professionals Can Be Agile
    • An Open Letter to All Data Users
    • The Digital Transformer: Renewing the IT Curriculum
    • The Data Governance Coach: Can Software Help My Data Governance Initiative?
    • Stepping Up to Data Ethics
    • From the Desk of Bob Seiner

  • October

    • It’s All in the Data: Data 2020
    • The Chief Data Officer Rises
    • Managing Metadata in the Self-Service Age
    • Five Things for Data Governance Success
    • Bad Data’s Impact on Decision-Making
    • The Book Look: Flow-Based Leadership
    • Data Professional Introspective: Comparative Data Management (Part 3)
    • Comparing Approaches to Data Governance
    • The Soft Stuff is the Hard Stuff
    • Exploiting a Semantic Method
    • Data Architecture COMN Sense: Relationships in Structured Data
    • Practical Points from the DGPO

  • September

    • Data Governance and Dancing in the Rain
    • Today’s Crypto-Frankenstein
    • Data is Risky Business: The Customer Perspective
    • The Data Centric Revolution: Data Centric vs. Data Driven
    • The Human Data Processor
    • Converting an Essential Model to a Real Database Design, Part 3
    • The Data Forecast: The Value of Data
    • What Can’t You Do Because Your Data is Ungoverned?
    • Toward a Better Understanding of Metadata – Repository
    • Data Warehouse Design – Inmon versus Kimball
    • Business Glossaries and Metadata: The “Value” of our Data Consumers
    • Data Architecture COMN Sense: Relationships and Semantics

  • August

    • Don’t Tell Management About Data Governance
    • Data Modeling: Understanding and Being Understood
    • Non-Invasive Framework for Data Governance Implementation: Details, Part 2
    • The Business of Data: Metadata is Marketing
    • The Digital Transformer: Thoughts on Data Governance
    • The Importance of Business Dialogue as a Part of Data Governance
    • The Data Governance Coach: Do We Have to Call Them Data Owners?
    • Five Misconceptions of Data Governance
    • DAMA International Community Corner July 2016: Moving DAMA Forward
    • Converting an Essential Data Model to a Real Database Design, Part 2
    • Ethics, Shmethics
    • Data Visualization from the Other Side

  • July

    • From the Publisher – Happy 1st Anniversary & Questionnaire
    • Data Professional Introspective: Comparative Data Management (Part 2)
    • Non-Invasive Framework for Data Governance Implementation – Part 1: Levels and Components
    • Metadata is Not a Technical Term Anymore
    • It’s all in the Data: Everybody is a Data Steward (Get Over It)
    • Converting an Essential Data Model to a Real Database Design, Part One
    • Modeling Data Versus Designing Databases: A Case Study
    • NoSQL and SQL Data Modeling – Separating Type and Class
    • The Book Look: Data Lake Architecture
    • Practical Points from the DGPO
    • Career Roadmapping

  • June

    • The IT Data Governance Survey
    • It’s all in the Data: Data is Like Contaminated Water
    • Mitigate Information Related Risks with Metadata
    • A Framework For Data Excellence and Key Security Indicators
    • Questions Being Asked About Data Governance: Best of #RWDG Q&A
    • The Data Centric Revolution: The Evolution of the Data Centric Revolution Part Two
    • Business Glossaries and Metadata: Building the Data Governance Business Case
    • Making Your Data Governance Model Inclusive
    • New Data Scientist: Data is a Monster
    • Combining Data from Multiple Sources – Join, Integrate, Blend?
    • Data is Risky Business: ARP – An Alternative Approach to Data Governance
    • Data Monetization: Data Assets into Profit

  • May

    • Battling Data Demons with Data Governance
    • The Digital Transformer: Digital (Re)Education
    • The Business of Data: Focus on the Data that is Important to Your Business
    • Bots in a Smart Data World
    • IT Data Governance: Run IT like a Business
    • What are NoSQL Databases?
    • Driving Data Innovation in the City of Chicago
    • Which Business Rule do I Believe?
    • A Practical Tool for Data Stewards
    • Ask the Data Governance Coach: What is a Data Glossary?
    • DAMA International Community Corner: May 2016
    • Letter to the Publisher

  • April

    • What is Non-Invasive Data Governance?
    • Toward a Better Understanding of Metadata – Program Initiation
    • Governance, Risk Management and Compliance – A Step Toward Value-Centric and Data-Driven
    • It’s all in the Data: Data Governance and Sharing Data Models
    • Just Enough, Just In Time Semantics
    • Managing Enterprise Data Assets to Enable Data Governance
    • Big Data and Internet of Things – How the Future of Data Analysis is Evolving
    • The Book Look: Data Novels
    • Practical Points from the DGPO: Communications is the Key
    • The Evolution (and Opportunity) of IT Careers
    • Data Professional Introspective: Comparative Data Management (Part 1)

  • March

    • Start Data Governance by Protecting Your Data
    • Pragmatic Data: Another Good Reason to Model Your Data
    • Data is Risky Business: Training is More Than a Monkey with Bad PowerPoint
    • Mastering Data: An Algorithm to Clean Names
    • Privacy Engineering and Data Governance
    • Risk Data Aggregation and Reporting for BCBS 239
    • Big Changes in the World of Data Modeling
    • Business Glossaries and Metadata: Governance of Enterprise Reference Data – Why Do We Care?
    • How to Avoid the Requirements Trap
    • The Data Centric Revolution: The Evolution of the Data Centric Revolution Part One
    • How to Approach Enterprise Content Management

  • February

    • Rules for Becoming a Data Steward
    • The Business of Data: Data-Driven Business Transformation
    • Protection of PII Data is Vital: A Slice of PII
    • Toward a Better Understanding of Metadata – Governance
    • Digital Transformer: Introducing the IT4IT Standard
    • Insight … So What?
    • Data Governance Coach: What Does a Data Governance Coordinator Do?
    • DAMA International Community Corner: January 2016
    • Data Needs to be Made Available
    • How to Manage Null Values in Your Data Warehouse
    • Data Modeling Techniques – Efficiency of Meta-Entities in an ERD

  • January

    • It’s All in the Data – I’ll Take My Data Big and Smart
    • Master Data Management & Data Governance Benchmark Survey
    • It’s the Information, Not the Medium
    • Topology of Data Models within the Enterprise
    • Toward a Better Understanding of Metadata – Examples of Metadata in Business
    • Data Professional Introspective – Data Agility & Taming the Interface Chaos
    • Data as an Enabler of Corporate Value
    • A Really Close Look at the “Universal Data Vault” (UDV)
    • Practical Points from the DGPO – Data Governance Organizations
    • The Book Look – The Brackett Trilogies

• 2015

  • December

    • So What if Senior Leadership Loses Interest – Whatever it Takes
    • Business Glossary Definitions: The Most Difficult Effort
    • Data Governance in Agile Projects
    • A Ten-Step Plan for an Effective Data Governance Structure
    • Toward a Better Understanding of Metadata – Metadata Defined
    • Data is Risky Business: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Safe Harbor
    • Data Cleansing vs Data Maintenance: Which One Is Most Important?
    • The Data Centric Revolution: Seven Warning Signs of Appliosclerosis
    • Govern by Value: Data-driven Business Excellence
    • Pragmatic Data: Where Does Your Data Science Live?
    • Invest in New but Improve Old

  • November

    • The Data Governance Test
    • Agile Methodologies in EDM Projects
    • Technical Metadata Tool Requirements
    • The Digital Transformer – Agile is Killing the Center of Excellence
    • The Business of Data – Make Your Data Management Project a Peacock
    • Is the “Data Asset” Really Different?
    • Just What is Data Quality?
    • Ask the Data Governance Coach – What is the Difference Between Policies and Standards?
    • DAMA International Community Corner – What is New at DAMA International?
    • Universal Data Vault: Case Study in Combining “Universal” Data Model Patterns with Data Vault Architecture – Part 1

  • October

    • Ten Years of Data Quality Lessons
    • It’s All in the Data – A Day in the Life
    • Data Professional Introspective – Evolving the Business Tribe: Centrality of the Business Glossary
    • The Book Look – “Steve the Publisher”
    • Why Bad Data is Spoiling Your Marketing Efforts
    • A Sample DBA Job Posting
    • Practical Points from the DGPO
    • The Case Against Slowly Changing Dimensions, Part Two
    • Why I Hate FUD – Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt
    • Data Knowledge Democratization

  • September

    • Data is the New Bacon
    • Why You Should Care About Data Governance
    • The Data Centric Revolution
    • Pragmatic Data
    • Data is Risky Business
    • Business Glossaries and Metadata
    • Developing a Return on Investment
    • Back to the Future
    • Service Level Requirements (SLR) as the Origin of the SLA Content
    • Data Governance Happenings
    • The Ever-Changing Role of the DBA

  • August

    • Data Modeling is Data Governance
    • The Digital Transformer
    • Ask the Data Governance Coach
    • Social Media and “The Right to Be Forgotten”
    • Things I Think I Think about Data Governance
    • The Case Against Slowly-Changing Dimensions, Part One
    • The Business of Data
    • Data/Information Maturity Assessment
    • The Meta-Data Fiasco
    • DAMA International Community Corner

  • July

    • Master Data Management and Data Governance Benchmark Survey
    • Baffled by Big Data Governance?
    • It’s All in the Data – My, My, Hey, Hey
    • The Book Look
    • Data Professional Introspective
    • Practical Points from the DGPO
    • Training: Not a “Tick Box” Activity
    • Medical Professional Liability Ratemaking: Extending the Scope of Predictive Analytics
    • Privacy and Internet of Things (IoT)
    • Data Storytellers Wanted
    • Welcome Back TDAN.com

• 2014

  • October

    • Interview with Cathy Nolan – Audacity to Spy

  • August

    • Interview with Bob Seiner
    • Real-World Data Governance – August 2014
    • The EIM Puzzle – August 2014
    • The DAMA Corner – August 2014
    • Agile Data Design – August 2014

  • July

    • Data Governance Best Practice Development & Analysis

  • June

    • Non-Invasive Data Governance™

  • April

    • Information Governance
    • The Skeptical Architect April 2014
    • The Database Report – April 2014

  • March

    • Business Rules – March 2014
    • Mind the Governance Gap
    • Enterprise Data Warehousing and BI Best Practice
    • DAMA Corner – March 2014
    • The Decision Model – March 2014
    • Big Data and the Roman Census Approach
    • Essential Steps to a Data Management Certification from CDMP

  • February

    • Agile Data Design February 2014
    • The EIM Puzzle – February 2014
    • Metamusings on Life, Business, Data February 2014

  • January

    • Best of 2013 – The Data Governance Bill of “Rights”
    • Best of 2013 – Walk Softly: Why Non-Invasive Data Governance Wins
    • The Database Report – January 2014
    • Best of 2013 – Interview with Pablo Riboldi – 2013 Data Governance Best Practice Award Winner
    • SELECT * FROM Celko – January 2014
    • Best of 2013 – The Evolving Data Modeler Skillset
    • The Skeptical Architect – January 2014
    • Best of 2013 – DBA Rules of Thumb
    • Best of 2013 – IT Matters. Again.

• 2013

  • December

    • Extending the Model Ð Derived Attributes
    • The Decision Model – December 2013
    • Business Rules – December 2013

  • November

    • Agile Data Design November 2013
    • The EIM Puzzle November 2013
    • Sentiment Analysis and Sentiment Intelligence
    • DAMA Corner – November 2013

  • October

    • Data Governance Core Principles
    • The Database Report October 2013
    • Metamusings on Life, Business, and Data October 2013
    • The Skeptical Architect October 2013

  • September

    • Business Rules – September 2013
    • SELECT * FROM Celko – September 2013
    • The Data Governance Test – Reborn
    • The Decision Model – September 2013
    • Enterprise Data Modeling

  • August

    • The EIM Puzzle – August 2013
    • Agile Data Design August 2013
    • DAMA Corner – August 2013

  • July

    • Three Levels of Data Governance Communications
    • Metamusings on Life, Business, and Data July 2013
    • The Ever-Changing Role of the DBA
    • EA Principles July 2013
    • What is IT Value?
    • The Database Report July 2013
    • The Data Modeling Addict July 2013

  • June

    • The Decision Model – June 2013
    • SELECT * FROM Celko – June 2013
    • Business Rules – June 2013

  • May

    • The EIM Puzzle – May 2013
    • Designing Reference Tables for Usefulness, Flexibility and Survival
    • The Skeptical Architect – May 2013
    • The Three Drivers of Innovation
    • Agile Data Design – May 2013
    • DAMA Corner – May 2013

  • April

    • The Data Modeling Addict April 2013
    • The Database Report April 2013
    • EA Principles – April 2013
    • Data Governance Tweets
    • Facing the Flexibility Problem in Human Service Information Systems

  • March

    • SELECT * FROM Celko – March 2013
    • The Decision Model – March 2013
    • BI Stack Today and Tomorrow

  • February

    • Business Rules – March 2013
    • The Future of Relational Databases
    • The Skeptical Architect – February 2013
    • Master Data Mgmt & Data Governance
    • The EIM Puzzle – February 2013
    • Agile Data Design – February 2013
    • DAMA Corner – February 2013

  • January

    • The Data Modeling Addict January 2013
    • The Database Report January 2013
    • EA Principles – January 2013

• 2012

  • December

    • Book Review: Secrets of Analytical Leaders
    • SELECT * FROM Celko – December 2012
    • The Decision Model – December 2012
    • Business Rules – December 2012

  • November

    • The Skeptical Architect – November 2012
    • The EIM Puzzle – November 2012
    • Agile Data Design – November 2012

  • October

    • DAMA Corner – November 2012
    • Death by Spreadsheet, Part 1
    • Data Mining in Practice – October 2012
    • The Database Report October 2012
    • The Data Modeling Addict October 2012
    • From Data Modeling to Ontologies: Discovering What Exists, Part 2
    • EA Principles – October 2012

  • September

    • The Decision Model September 2012
    • SELECT * FROM Celko – September 2012
    • From Data Modeling to Ontologies: Discovering What Exists, Part 1
    • Employing Enterprise Metadata to Effectively Deploy Enterprise Resource Planning Packages, Part 1
    • Business Rules – September 2012
    • A Taxonomy of Barriers to Producing Performance Indicators on Human Service Programs

  • August

    • Review of Building the Agile Database
    • Agile Data Design – August 2012
    • The EIM Puzzle – August 2012
    • Review of Data and Reality 3rd Edition
    • Binding the Governance Organization to the Data: An Example from Retail Banking for the Customer Domain
    • The Skeptical Architect – August 2012
    • From Knowledge Management to Knowledge Flow Management
    • DAMA Corner – August 2012

  • July

    • The Data Modeling Addict – July 2012
    • EA Principles – July 2012
    • Data Mining in Practice – July 2012
    • The Database Report July 2012

  • June

    • The Myth of Information Overload
    • The Decision Model June 2012
    • Three Books for the Next Ten Years
    • Business Rules – June 2012
    • Happenings in Data Governance
    • SELECT * FROM Celko June 2012
    • Metadata in Data Governance

  • May

    • Agile Data Design – May 2012
    • Best Practices of Business Process Management: The Top Ten Principles
    • The Skeptical Architect – May 2012
    • DAMA Corner – May 2012

  • April

    • Why Clarity and Holism Matter for Managing Human Service Information
    • Interview with Steve Hoberman on the Upcoming Data Modeling Zone Conference
    • EA Principles April 2012
    • Happenings in Data Governance
    • Governing Customer Information in Insurance
    • The Database Report – April 2012
    • Is Your Data Governance Program In Trouble?
    • The Data Modeling Addict – April 2012
    • Big Data and Predictive Analytics WhatÕs All the Rage About?
    • A Taxonomy of Data Management Disciplines
    • Data Mining in Practice – April 2012

  • February

    • The Skeptical Architect – February 2012
    • The EIM Puzzle – February 2012
    • DM Forum and the Enterprise Architecture and Data Warehousing 2012 Conference
    • Book Review: UML and Data Modeling
    • Proactive and Reactive Techniques to Address Information Quality Challenges Head On
    • Agile Data Design – February 2012
    • Architecture Made Easy, Part 13
    • Book Review: Principles of Data Management:
    • Business Rules – February 2012

  • January

    • What’s New in Data Governance
    • The Data Modeling Addict – January 2012
    • Key Features Needed in a Data Modeling Tool
    • Data Mining in Practice – January 2012
    • The Database Report – January 2012
    • Ten Data Management Capabilities That Address Urgent Business Priorities

• 2011

  • December

    • SELECT * FROM Celko December 2011
    • BI Career Development – December 2011
    • The Skeptical Architect – December 2011

  • November

    • Data Models: The Center of the Business Information Systems Universe
    • Patterns for the IT Process
    • Business Rules – November 2011
    • Happenings in Data Governance
    • Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide – November 2011
    • The Analytic Sandbox
    • DAMA Corner – November 2011

  • October

    • Interview with Susan Earley of DAMA on the DAMA Dictionary, 2nd Edition
    • The Database Report – October 2011
    • Lean Principles and IT Demand Management
    • The EIM Puzzle – October 2011
    • Data Types of the Future!
    • The Data Modeling Addict – October 2011
    • A Route to Streamlined Performance Reporting and Stronger Information Systems
    • Data Mining in Practice – October 2011

  • September

    • The Decision Model – September 2011
    • How to Draw an Architectural Data Model in UML
    • SELECT * FROM Celko September 2011
    • BI Career Development – September 2011
    • If You Think You Can Do Without a Business Analyst ÉThink Again!
    • Dynamic Structured Data Processing and Its Automatic Metadata Maintenance
    • The Skeptical Architect – September 2011

  • August

    • Business Rules August 2011
    • Interview with Michael Brackett Author of Date Resource Simplexity: How Organizations Choose Date Resource Success or Failure
    • Some Types and Uses of Data Models
    • Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide August 2011
    • DAMA Corner – August 2011

  • July

    • The Data Modeling Addict July 2011
    • The Database Report July 2011
    • Data Mining in Practice July 2011

  • June

    • The Decision Model June 2011
    • BI Career Development – June 2011
    • Leave the “IT” in “ITSM”
    • SELECT * FROM Celko June 2011
    • Challenge for Business Information System Success

  • May

    • The Skeptical Architect – May 2011
    • Business Rules – May 2011
    • Happenings in Data Governance
    • Data Migration Ð Key Considerations
    • DAMA Corner May 2011
    • Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide May 2011

  • April

    • The Database Report April 2011
    • Protection of Personal Information (POPI)
    • Data Mining in Practice April 2011
    • Book Review: RecrEAtion: Realizing the Extraordinary Contribution of Your Enterprise Architects
    • Visualizing XML Schemas in Data Modeling Tools
    • Dead Crows Rumbled
    • The Date Maze April 2011

  • March

    • SELECT * FROM Celko – March 2011
    • Informationalize: Put Data to Work by Building Them into Products and Services
    • A Case Study on Data Migration Strategy and Template Design for Mergers and Acquisitions in the Oil and Gas Sector
    • The Decision Model – March 2011
    • BI Career Development – March 2011
    • The IBM Data Governance Unified Process

  • February

    • Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide February 2011
    • Business Rules – February 2011
    • The Zachman Framework Updated
    • DAMA Corner – February 2011
    • Consider Capping to Control Costs
    • Business Rules – February 2012

  • January

    • Why Data Models Cannot Work
    • So You Want to be a Data Champion?
    • Is Your Organization Too Unique to Use Universal Data Models?
    • The Database Report – January 2011
    • Data Mining in Practice January 2011
    • The Data Modeling Addict – January 2011
    • Creating and Establishing a Common Language

• 2010

  • December

    • SELECT * FROM Celko December 2010
    • The Decision Model – December 2010
    • BI Career Development – December 2010
    • A Framework for Logical Data Models in Courts
    • Creation of a Property & Casualty Insurance Data Standard Model

  • November

    • DGPO What does it mean to you?
    • Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide November 2010
    • Business Rules – November 2010
    • Interview with Steve Adler – IBM Info Governance
    • Defining EIM and IAM
    • DAMA Corner – November 2010
    • Valid RFP Development

  • October

    • If You Missed the Data Governance Conference in June
    • Data-Driven Molecular Specifications, Part 1
    • The Data Modeling Addict – October 2010
    • The Database Report October 2010
    • Data Mining in Practice October 2010
    • Different Kinds of Data Models: History and a Suggestion
    • The Data Maze October 2010

  • September

    • The Decision Model – September 2010
    • SELECT * FROM Celko – September 2010
    • IT and BI Career Development – September 2010

  • August

    • DAMA Corner August 2010
    • A New, Flexible Architecture for Developing Business Intelligence Systems
    • Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide August 2010
    • Architecture Is Objective, Design Is Subjective August 2010

  • July

    • Data Integration Design: Event Management
    • The Database Report – July 2010
    • Farm and Market Architecture: A Vital Question for Master Data Management
    • Data Mining in Practice July 2010

  • June

    • test
    • Architecture Made Easy, Part 10
    • SELECT * FROM Celko – June 2010
    • The Decision Model June 2010
    • Information Maturity in Large Organisations through Business Semantics: a Business Case at the Flemish Public Administration
    • The 2010 Data Governance Best Practice Award Recognizes the British Army
    • IT and BI Career Development – June 2010
    • DAMA Corner – June 2010 (May)
    • TDAN.com Interview with Brigadier Richard Nugee The British Army

  • May

    • A Review of Malcolm Chisholm’s Book: Definitions in Information Management: A Guide to the Fundamental Semantic Metadata
    • Prepositions, Not Verbs or Nouns
    • Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide May 2010
    • Business Rules May 2010
    • Are You at the Controls?
    • Architecture Is Objective, Design Is Subjective May 2010
    • Data Architecture as a Service

  • April

    • Get Your Geek On with ERwin.com
    • The Database Report – April 2010
    • Book Review: Data Modeling Made Simple – 2nd Ed
    • Consider Data & Process as Two Sides of the Same Coin
    • The Data Modeling Addict – April 2010
    • Cloud Computing for Technology Tools
    • The Data Maze April 2010
    • Architecture Made Easy, Part 9
    • Data Mining in Practice April 2010

  • March

    • SELECT * FROM Celko – March 2010
    • Defining and Naming Data Models Related to the Zachman Framework
    • IT and BI Career Development – March 2010
    • Experiences on the Hidden Complexities of Data Standards Integration
    • Political Economies and Data Decisions
    • The Decision Model March 2010
    • Information Management: A Key for Creating Business Value

  • February

    • Non-Invasive Data Governance Explained
    • Interview with Davida Berger
    • Interview with Steve Hoberman
    • Architecture Made Easy, Part 8
    • Business Rules February 2010
    • MDM & Data Governance Readiness Assessment
    • Reference Data Management
    • Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide Feb 2010
    • DAMA Corner February 2010

  • January

    • The Data Modeling Addict January 2010
    • Good Data Governance A to Z
    • The Data Maze January 2010
    • Digging Up Dollars: Data Mining in Practice January 2010
    • Software Product Selection: Improved Methods, Improved Results
    • The Database Report – January 2010
    • Controlling Hierarchical Structure Processing From SQL

• 2009

  • December

    • The “Non-Invasive Data Governance”™ Operating Model
    • Not About Data Governance: My FatherÕs Son
    • The Decision Model December 2009
    • Interview with Larry English
    • SELECT * FROM Celko – December 2009
    • The Power of a Common Business Language
    • Lean IT Value Streams: An Entity Lifecycle Approach
    • IT and BI Career Development – December 2009
    • Best Practices for IT Service Management

  • November

    • The Field of Dreams Mind-Set
    • Business Event Management
    • DAMA Corner November 2009
    • Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide November 2009
    • DAMA-DMBOK Available!
    • Business Rules November 2009
    • Architecture Made Easy, Part 7
    • Just the Facts About Mainframe Specialty Processors
    • Architecture Is Objective, Design Is Subjective November 2009
    • Data for Information Management

  • October

    • Budgeting Time for Data Stewardship
    • The Data Maze October 2009
    • Bridging the Data-Metadata Duality
    • Agile Leadership and Management of Change Project Lessons from Winston Churchill and the Battle of Britain
    • SQL Server 2008 R2: Introducing Managed Self-Service Business Intelligence
    • The Database Report – October 2009
    • Transparency
    • Creating More Value than is Captured with Hierarchical Data Structures Using SQL
    • Enterprise Data Warehouse: A Patterns Approach to Integration Evolution
    • The Data Modeling Addict October 2009
    • Digging up Dollars: Data Mining in Practice October 2009

  • September

    • The Decision Model – September 2009
    • DBAs Reinvented
    • Data Governance Communications Planning
    • SELECT * FROM Celko – September 2009
    • IT and BI Career Development September 2009
    • Architecture Made Easy, Part 6
    • Data Portability The Antidote to Data ÒLock-InÓ
    • Proven Strategies for Large-Scale Data Migration Projects

  • August

    • The Cultural Impedance Mismatch
    • Interview with Barbara von Halle & Larry Goldberg
    • Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide – August 2009
    • Review of The Decision Model: A Business Logic Framework Linking Business and Technology
    • Business Rules – August 2009
    • Architecture Made Easy, Part 5
    • Architecture Is Objective, Design Is Subjective – August 2009
    • Insights into the Interplay of Data Architecture Components
    • The Ghost in the Machine
    • DAMA Corner August 2009

  • July

    • Jedox Announces a New Development for its Open-Source OLAP Palo Product
    • What Does It Mean to ‘Govern Data’?
    • Proven Strategies for Executing Large-Scale Data Modeling Projects
    • Interview with Steve Hoberman
    • Dimensions of Data Architecture
    • The Database Report – July 2009
    • Digging up Dollars: Data Mining in Practice – July 2009
    • The Data Modeling Addict – July 2009
    • Semantic SOA Governance

  • June

    • IT and BI Career Development June 2009
    • The Changing Discipline of Data Modeling
    • SELECT * FROM Celko – June 2009
    • Chief Data Officer
    • Dimensional Analysis of Data Architecture
    • Death by Architecture

  • May

    • Data Governance Value Statements
    • Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide – May 2009
    • Architecture Is Objective, Design Is Subjective – May 2009
    • Taking Inventory of the Unstructured World
    • Business Rules – May 2009
    • Thoughts on Data Quality
    • DAMA Corner May 2009
    • Data Models and Data Profiling

  • April

    • Digging up Dollars: Data Mining in Practice – April 2009
    • Modeling the Blueprint for MDM
    • Interview with Len Silverston of Universal Data Models
    • The Data Modeling Addict – April 2009
    • Real Men Don’t Read Instructions
    • The Database Report – April 2009
    • Enterprise MDM Market Review & Forecast
    • Unwired Tap – April 2009
    • 10 Ways to Save an Hour a Day
    • Eye on TDWI – Las Vegas 2009

  • March

    • Data Mining Questions?
    • IT and BI Career Development – March 2009
    • Earned Value Management
    • Is a Science of Data Possible?
    • Architecture Made Easy, Part 4
    • Link Corporate Policy and Data Design with Decisioning
    • SaaS and BI – March 2009
    • SELECT * FROM Celko – March 2009
    • How to Build & Implement a Non-Invasive Data Governance Program – 2 Day Seminar

  • February

    • The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Part 10
    • The CMDB is an Operational Data Store
    • Architecture is Objective, Design is Subjective – February 2009
    • Business Rules – February 2009
    • DAMA Corner February 2009
    • The Requirements Bill of Materials: A Walkthrough
    • The Last Lecture from Randy Pausch

  • January

    • Governance for Taxonomic Reference Data
    • The Database Report – January 2009
    • 5 Hiring Habits of Successful CIOs
    • Unwired Tap – January 2009
    • Grids in Data Warehousing
    • Agile: The Good News, The Bad News
    • The Data Modeling Addict – January 2009

• 2008

  • December

    • The Strategic Data Dashboard
    • UML as a Data Modeling Notation, Part 4
    • The 10-Minute Data Model Review, Part 3
    • SaaS and BI – December 2008
    • SELECT * FROM Celko – December 2008
    • Specters That Haunt ERP System Conversions
    • IT and BI Career Development – December 2008

  • November

    • Business Rules – November 2008
    • DAMA Corner November 2008
    • Architecture is Objective, Design is Subjective – November 2008
    • UML as a Data Modeling Notation, Part 3
    • Architecture Made Easy, Part 3
    • Application Administration: The Next Frontier for the DBA
    • First-Time Right Ratio: Measuring the Measurers

  • October

    • The Database Report – October 2008
    • Pursuing Organization’s Most Influential Information Job
    • Unwired Tap – October 2008
    • The Data Modeling Addict – October 2008
    • UML as a Data Modeling Notation, Part 2
    • Architecture Made Easy, Part 2
    • Temporal Versioning
    • Data Semantics Management – New Book Just Announced

  • September

    • The DGI Data Governance Framework
    • UML as a Data Modeling Notation, Part 1
    • The Last Lecture: An As-We-Go Review
    • SELECT * FROM Celko – September 2008
    • SaaS and BI – September 2008
    • CDI and MDM Are Broken, Part 2
    • A Bifocal Strategy for Data Quality
    • ROI – Paying for the CMDB Metadata Knowledgebase
    • Seven Critical Questions to Ensure Master Data Governance Success

  • August

    • Unwired Tap – July 2008
    • Architecture is Objective, Design is Subjective – August 2008
    • Business Rules: In the Know – August 2008
    • Grounding Your IQ Management in Sound Quality Management Systems
    • The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Part 9
    • Data Lineage: The Next Generation
    • The 10-Minute Data Model Review, Part 2
    • DAMA Corner August 2008
    • Function Points
    • Database Auditing Capabilities for Compliance and Security

  • July

    • Getting Off on the Right Foot: Avoiding Common Master Data Management False Starts
    • Non-Invasive Data Governance
    • The Data Modeling Addict – July 2008
    • The Database Report – July 2008
    • New Ideas on the ROI of Data and Business Rules, Part 1
    • Where is the Query in XQuery?
    • The 10-Minute Data Model Review, Part 1

  • June

    • TDAN.com Job Listing Test
    • Eye on TDWI – May 2008
    • Crow’s Feet Are Best
    • SaaS and BI – June 2008
    • Computer Life Cycle Management and Migration
    • Subtyping in W3C XML Schema, Part 2

  • May

    • Architecture is Objective, Design is Subjective – May 2008
    • Metadata Improvements – A Case Study
    • Getting and Keeping Your Data Right
    • The Prime Business Decision Loop
    • DAMA Corner May 2008
    • All About fruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology
    • Performance Tuning Considerations for Decision Support Systems

  • April

    • DAMA INTL Announces Dictionary of Data Management at Symposium – Spring 2008
    • Enterprise Service Engineering
    • Subtyping in W3C XML Schema, Part 1
    • The Database Report – April 2008
    • Eye on TDWI – February 2008
    • Architecture Made Easy, Part 1
    • The Data Modeling Addict – April 2008
    • Unwired Tap – April 2008

  • March

    • Acorn Systems Delivers Accurate Customer Profitability Analysis
    • Bill Stuckey, Operating Partner, Information Technology, Arsenal Capital Partners
    • Milestones on the 2008-9 Master Data Management Road Map
    • Business Analysis: A Guide to Better Software Evaluation
    • AS2 for EDI Hubs – The Value Proposition
    • Mind Your Language Too

  • February

    • The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Chapter 8
    • Understanding the ITIL CMDB Meta-Model
    • SOA – From Architecture to Implementation

  • January

    • Information Governance: Controlling Information as a Strategic Enterprise Resource
    • Unwired Tap – January 2008
    • The Data Modeling Addict – January 2008
    • Enterprise Architecture – Connect-the-Dots for Adults, Part 4
    • Principles of ROI Development for Data Quality Projects
    • Taking the Temperature of Your Data
    • Eye on TDWI – November 2007
    • DAMA Corner January 2008
    • The Database Report – January 2008

• 2007

  • November

    • Enterprise Architecture – Connect-the-Dots for Adults, Part 3
    • American ITIL – Winning The Metadata Contest
    • Too Simple, Too Soon
    • Business Analysis: A Guide to Better Business Requirements

  • October

    • Irem Radzik, Director of Product Marketing for GoldenGate
    • The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Chapter 7
    • The Database Report – October 2007
    • Book Review: Data Interoperability Community of Interest Handbook
    • Unwired Tap – October 2007
    • The Data Modeling Addict – October 2007
    • Enterprise Architecture: Connect-Dots for Adults, Part 2
    • DAMA Corner October 2007
    • Information Systems Development
    • Semantics in Metadata Repository and Systems Integration Efforts
    • CDI and MDM are Broken, Part 1
    • Enterprise Application Modernization
    • Thought Leaders on Data Modeling, Part 2

  • September

    • Requirements for Modeling Metrics
    • Eye On TDWI – August 2007
    • CBIP Preparation for the Information Systems Core Exam
    • Reactive and Proactive Business Intelligence

  • August

    • Bill Baker, Distinguished Engineer and General Manager of Business Intelligence for the Microsoft Office Business Platform and Donald Farmer, Principal Program Manager for Microsoft SQL Server Data Mining
    • How Mature is Your Data Management Environment?
    • The Right Tool for the Right Job
    • The Socialization of Knowledge
    • Enterprise Architecture: Connect-the-Dots for Adults, Part 1
    • Why Data Models Do Not Work: The Role of Reference Data

  • July

    • 2007 Best Practices Award Winner: Memorial Sloan-Kettering
    • The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Chapter 6
    • Eye on TDWI – May 2007
    • The Database Report – July 2007
    • DAMA Corner – July 2007
    • The Small Business Market – July 2007
    • Unwired Tap – July 2007
    • A New Way of Thinking – July 2007
    • Data Structure: Data Modeling or XML?
    • Data Integration Requires Trust
    • What Does Manage Your Data and Information Assets Mean?
    • Data Quality and the Project Life Cycle
    • The Data Modeling Addict – July 2007
    • Terminology, Semantics and the Meanings of Names
    • Data-Driven and Agile Methods: Can We Get Along?

  • May

    • Data Warehousing ROI: Justifying and Assessing a Data Warehouse
    • Four Ways to Build a Data Warehouse
    • Data Warehousing ROI: Justifying and Assessing a Data Warehouse
    • Business Intelligence Solution Evolution: Adoption and Use
    • When Business Intelligence Equals Business Value
    • Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Selecting and Deploying BI Tools
    • Integrating Structured and Unstructured Data Using Text Tagging and Annotation
    • From Short Stack to Competitive Advantage: IHOP’s Pursuit of Data Quality
    • Framing Business Intelligence Governance
    • Building a Data-Centric Organization
    • The Four Components of BI Governance
    • Enterprise Data Modeling: Lost Art or Essential Science?
    • Beyond the Dashboard: Making Better Decisions
    • A Performance Management Primer: Why You Need More Than a Dashboard to Manage Your Strategy
    • Perry Carraway, Director of Business Development for Blackstone & Cullen, Inc.

  • April

    • The Small Business Market – April 2007
    • The Road to a Well-Ordered Enterprise is Through Metadata Management
    • Eye on TDWI – Las Vegas – February 2007
    • The Data Modeling Addict – April 2007
    • The Database Report – April 2007
    • Unwired Tap – April 2007
    • Introduction to Geospatial Data Management
    • Business Analysis: A Guide to Aligning IT & Business Strategy
    • A BPM-Driven Approach To Business Rules
    • Selling and Sustaining an Effective Governance Program
    • Considerations For Managing Risk In A Post-SOX Environment
    • Semantics and Business Meta-Data
    • Pick Your Partners:
    • Thought Leaders On Data Modeling:
    • Textual Analytics: Business Intelligence from a Textual Foundation
    • Introduction to Enterprise Architecture
    • The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Chapter 5

  • March

    • Wilshire Award Winner Q&A

  • February

    • What the E-Discovery Amendments To The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Mean to You
    • 2006 Wilshire Award Q&A

  • January

    • Interstate Hotels & Resorts
    • The Small Business Market – January 2007
    • Data-Oriented Application Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Returned
    • Data Modeling News from the Ivory Tower
    • Announcing The Wilshire Conferences’ Award for Metadata Best Practices 2006 WILSHIRE AWARD WINNER Bank of Montreal
    • The Data Modeling Addict – January 2007
    • The Database Report – January 2007
    • Unwired Tap – January 2007
    • DAMA Corner – January 2007
    • A New Way of Thinking – January 2007
    • Data Management and Context Modeling
    • Modeling Data and Designing Databases
    • Data Warehousing in a Healthcare Environment
    • Normalizing with Entity Relationship Diagramming
    • Chief Data Steward or Chief Data Officer: Another C-Level Acronym?
    • Should Your CIO Care About Meta Data Management? Part Two
    • Business Metadata and Enterprise Search
    • Information Model – SOA in a Business Perspective
    • The “Top Five” Elevator Pitches to Give CxOs
    • Why Enterprise CRM Did *NOT* Deliver a “360º Customer View”
    • The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Chapter 4

• 2006

  • December

    • Data Governance in a Post-compliance World

  • November

    • Eye On TDWI – Orlando – November 2006
    • The Elusive Species of the Information Age: the Data Management Professional

  • October

    • The Data Modeling Addict – October 2006
    • The Database Report – October 2006
    • Unwired Tap – October 2006
    • DAMA Corner – October 2006
    • A New Way of Thinking – October 2006
    • Managing Data Names, Value Domains, Abbreviations and Definitions
    • Enabling a Business Intelligence Self-Service Platform Across The Enterprise
    • Bringing Business and IT Together – Part 3
    • The Semantic Model: A Basis For Understanding and Implementing Data Warehouse Requirements
    • A Bit More On Defining Keys
    • The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Chapter 3
    • Proactive Performance for the Data Warehouse
    • Data Modeling, RDF, & OWL – Part Three: Converting Data Model Relationships to OWL
    • Making the SOA Implementation Successful
    • Should Your CIO Care About Meta Data Management? Part One
    • Database Archiving for Long-Term Data Retention
    • Leveraging Technology to Reestablish Data Management
    • The Small Business Market – October 2006

  • September

    • Quick Reasoning: Business Value of Data Stewardship

  • August

    • Eye on TDWI – San Diego – August 2006

  • July

    • Unwired Tap – July 2006
    • Simplicity In Design: A Metadata Imperative
    • Data Modeling, RDF, & OWL – Part Two: Converting Data Model Entity Classes and Attributes to OWL
    • The Data Modeling Addict – July 2006
    • The Enterprise Ontology
    • The Database Report – July 2006
    • DAMA Corner – July 2006
    • A New Way of Thinking – July 2006
    • Introduction To Database Refactoring
    • Matching Unstructured Data and Structured Data
    • Self Organizing Maps (SOM’s) – Visualizing Textual Data
    • Implementing Data Quality Through Metadata, Part 2
    • Defining Keys
    • Introducing Data Unification and Harmonization: Critical Success Factor For Data Warehousing
    • The Flexible Enterprise: Creating a New Breed of Corporations
    • The Small Business Market – July 2006
    • Data Management: Business Necessity For All Business Disciplines

  • May

    • Prescribing Behavior With The Business Behavior Triad

  • April

    • The Data Modeling Addict – April 2006
    • The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Chapter 2
    • Facilitating Information Sharing Using Metadata
    • Are You Stuck In BI Adolescence?
    • Data Integrity – Pay Now, Or Pay Later
    • Data Modeling, RDF, & OWL – Part One: An Introduction To Ontologies
    • Implementing Data Quality Through Metadata, Part 1
    • Reflections On Knowledge Capture
    • Conceptual, Logical, Physical: Clearing the Confusion
    • Best Practices In Metadata Management – An Overview
    • Another Metadata Secret: The Metacard
    • Unwired Tap – April 2006
    • The Database Report – April 2006
    • The Small Business Market – April 2006
    • DAMA Corner – April 2006
    • Document Strategy Design and Information Agility

  • February

    • Transforming a Logical Data Model to a Physical Database Design – an Overview
    • Eye on TDWI – Las Vegas – February 2006

  • January

    • Data Modeling & Enterprise Project Management – Part 8
    • The Role of Data Dictionary in a Package Environment
    • Are You The Master of Your Data, Or its Slave?
    • Many-To-Many Relationships in XML Schema: Hints and Tips For the Busy E-R Modeler
    • Practical Data Stewardship Structures
    • Data Stewardship Framework – Part 4
    • Making Knowledge Management Work
    • The Knowledge Capture Culture
    • The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Chapter 1
    • Data Governance is Key to Successful Information Sharing
    • Bringing Business and IT Together – Part 2
    • Unwired Tap – January 2006
    • The Database Report – January 2006
    • Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map
    • DAMA Corner – January 2006
    • A New Way of Thinking – January 2006
    • Security and Privacy of Data

• 2005

  • November

    • TDWI World Conference Fall 2005 – Exhibit Hall Highlights
    • Eye on TDWI – Orlando – November 2005

  • October

    • Data Modeling & Enterprise Project Management – Part 7
    • Data Rich, Information Poor? Focus On Right Metrics
    • Views: The Key to Database Agility
    • Capture the Value of Document Management & Find the Mess
    • The Database Report – October 2005
    • Data Stewardship Framework – Part 3
    • Loving to Hate the Data Administrator
    • Stages Of Data Utility & Value
    • Managing Risk in a Flat World
    • Better Data Models – Today:
    • The Career Development Mountains
    • Bringing Business and IT Together – Part 1
    • Framework Standards: What’s It All About
    • DAMA Corner – October 2005
    • Meta-Data Trends & Technologies – October 2005
    • A New Way of Thinking – October 2005

  • August

    • Eye on TDWI – San Diego – August 2005

  • July

    • Acquiring a Metadata Repository Tool
    • Expensive Lessons From the Past: Profit From Them
    • Modeling Baseball Cards: A Case Study
    • The Enterprise Data Model
    • Data Stewardship Framework – Part 2
    • What Managers Want
    • Data and Database Management: Centralized Versus Decentralized
    • Globalization is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
    • Data Steward Roles & Responsibilities
    • Evolutionary Database Development
    • Unwired Tap – July 2005
    • The Database Report – July 2005
    • DAMA Corner – July 2005
    • Meta-Data Trends & Technologies – July 2005
    • The Meta-data Professional Organization: Helping You to Get Your Meta-data Initiatives Rolling
    • HIPAA Security & Compliance

  • June

    • Modeling Hierarchies

  • May

    • Eye on TDWI – Baltimore – May 2005
    • The Assertions Approach

  • April

    • Data Modeling & Enterprise Project Management – Part 6
    • CDI: Harnessing the Value of Enterprise Data Part 5
    • CDI: Harnessing the Value of Enterprise Data Part 6
    • Corporate Culture & Document Design Strategy
    • The Business Intelligence Evangelist
    • It is Time to Think Process
    • Data Stewardship Framework – Part 1
    • Support Your Local Metamodeler!
    • The Database Report – April 2005
    • Data Integrity in a New Light
    • Unwired Tap – April 2005
    • DAMA Corner – April 2005
    • A New Way of Thinking – April 2005
    • A Steward is Like a Babysitter: (To Own or Not to Own)
    • Managing an XML Data Model in Your SOA – Best Practices
    • Business Metadata: How to Write Definitions
    • Tackling Data Modelers’ Toughest Challenge
    • Data Strategy Introduction
    • Executive Summary: Enterprise Metadata Framework

  • February

    • Eye on TDWI – February 2005 – Las Vegas

  • January

    • Metadata’s Reservation Service
    • Information Management & Governance Disciplines
    • The Database Report – January 2005
    • Data Mining on a Budget
    • Data Modeling & Enterprise Project Management – Part 5
    • CDI: Harnessing the Value of Enterprise Data Part 3
    • CDI: Harnessing the Value of Enterprise Data Part 4
    • Governance Analysis Using Enterprise Architecture
    • Data Model Quality: Where Good Data Begins
    • Data Vault Series 5 – Loading Practices
    • Unwired Tap – January 2005
    • Designing the Optimal Metadata Tool – Part Two
    • Data Piracy: The Threat From Within
    • Backward Looking Forward: A TDAN.com Retrospect
    • Data Management Policy: A Cornerstone of Data Governance
    • What’s Wrong With The Zachman Framework?
    • You’re Making It Up! Data Modeling – Analysis or Design?
    • Metadata’s Reservation Service
    • Data Modeling Essentials – Third Edition
    • Business Rule Concepts: Getting to the Point of Knowledge – 2 Ed
    • DAMA Corner – January 2005
    • A New Way of Thinking – January 2005

• 2004

  • November

    • DAMA International Salutes TDAN.com on it’s 7th Anniversary
    • Eye on TDWI – November 2004 – Orlando
    • Backward Looking Forward: A TDAN.com Retrospect

  • October

    • CDI: Harnessing the Value of Enterprise Data Part 2
    • In SQL: Unified Heterogeneous Virtual Hierarchical Views
    • The Database Report – October 2004
    • Just the Facts
    • Data Modeling & Enterprise Project Management – Part 4
    • CDI: Harnessing the Value of Enterprise Data Part 1
    • Applying a Document Strategy Model
    • Unwired Tap – October 2004
    • Tag and Post Vs. Data Standardization
    • Modeling Business Rules: Data Driven Business Rules
    • Data Mining and Statistics: What is the Connection?
    • Data Synch for Data Managers
    • Designing the Optimal Metadata Tool – Part One
    • Data Retention – More Value, Less Filling
    • The Information Model & the Data Vault
    • DAMA Corner – October 2004
    • DAMA Corner – October 2004
    • A New Way of Thinking – October 2004
    • EII – Dead on Arrival

  • August

    • The Business – Data Management Partnership
    • The Future of Information Management
    • Eye on TDWI – August 2004

  • July

    • Convergence: The Freight Train’s Coming
    • The Importance of Data Integration
    • The Business Meta-Data Repository
    • Fundamentals of the Capability Maturity Model
    • Keeping Data Private (and knowing it)
    • The Database Report – July 2004
    • Data Stewardship Performance Measurement
    • Meta-Data Repositories Meet Semantics
    • Key Wars: Episode 1
    • In SQL: Processing XML’s Complex Hierarchical Structures
    • System Development Strategies for 21st Century Enterprises
    • Data, Architectures and the Interoperability Challenge
    • The Business Constraint Model
    • Unwired Tap – July 2004
    • DAMA Corner – July 2004
    • A New Way of Thinking – July 2004

  • June

    • Information Quality Management Maturity: Toward the Intelligent Learning Organization

  • May

    • Eye on TDWI – May 2004

  • April

    • Data Modeling & Enterprise Project Management: The Data-based Approach – Part 3
    • Understanding Hidden Subtypes
    • Whenever and Wherever: The Document is Critical to Society
    • In XML: Using SQL to Link Below the Root – Part 1
    • Modeling Business Rules – What Data Models Cannot Do
    • Business Rules Validation
    • Aggregates Location: A Rule of Thumb
    • Data Warehousing Ethical Concerns: Security, Access and Control
    • Managed Meta Data Environment (MME): A Complete Walkthrough
    • Job Wanted: The Data Quality Analyst
    • What XML Means
    • How to Learn Data Modeling
    • Unwired Tap – April 2004
    • DAMA Corner – April 2004
    • METAbits – April 2004
    • A New Way of Thinking – April 2004
    • Do You Trust Your Data Enough to Risk Your Neck?
    • The Database Report – April 2004

  • February

    • A Story of Too Many Tools
    • Eye on TDWI – Las Vegas February 2004

  • January

    • The Database Report – January 2004
    • Data Modeling & Enterprise Project Management Part 2: Function-Based Approach
    • In Praise of Intelligent Keys
    • The Role of Government in IT Standards
    • Data Integration and Sharing, Part Two
    • Modeling Business Rules: What Data Models Do
    • Enterprise Business Integration: A Bi-Directional Approach
    • Data Vault Series 4 – Link Tables
    • Meta-Data Silos
    • Assuring Semantic Consistency for Data Interchange
    • The Business Rule Approach: Changing the Face of Data Models, Part Three
    • One of the Biggest Secrets in Meta-Data Delivery
    • Issues in Automated E-Commerce and the Semantic Web
    • A Semantic Web Primer
    • Unwired Tap – January 2004
    • DAMA Corner – January 2004
    • A New Way of Thinking – January 2004

• 2003

  • November

    • Eye on TDWI – November 2003

  • October

    • The Database Report – October 2003
    • Data Modeling & Enterprise Project Management: Part 1 – Estimation
    • Importance of Definitions
    • Iterations of Database Design
    • Data Integration and Sharing – Part One
    • The Issues of the eBusiness Infrastructure
    • Grid Computing and the Enterprise: Myth or Reality
    • Nanotechnology and Data Warehousing: Nano-Warehousing
    • Data Warehousing at the Speed of Business
    • Capability Maturity Model Part 2: Overview of the Six Levels
    • Universal Acceptance
    • A Progress Report From MIT Information Quality Conference
    • Part 2: The Business Rule Approach: Changing the Face of IT Methodology
    • Unwired Tap – October 2003
    • DAMA Corner – October 2003
    • METAbits – October 2003
    • A New Way of Thinking – October 2003
    • Of Course IT Matters

  • August

    • Data Management Maturity
    • Eye on TDWI – August 2003

  • July

    • IRM Test Number 2 – What Can We Do to Change
    • Are You Building a Dry Stone Wall?
    • Do Metadata Repositories Manage Our Systems?
    • Comprehensive Metadata Management
    • Minimizing Action Distance
    • The Role and ROI of Enterprise Schema Management
    • The Database Report – July 2003
    • Part 1 – The Business Rule Approach: Changing the Face of Business
    • IDMA Focuses on Data Ownership
    • Setting the Record Straight: Introduction to Data Rules
    • Data Publishing Architecture for the Extended Enterprise
    • Capability Maturity Model (CMM): An Introduction
    • Unwired Tap – July 2003
    • DAMA Corner – July 2003
    • METAbits – July 2003
    • A New Way of Thinking – July 2003

  • May

    • Eye on TDWI – San Francisco – May 2003
    • Benchmarking SQL Application Programming Interfaces

  • April

    • A Conceptual Meta-Model for Unstructured Data
    • Data Modeling, Left and Right
    • Web Services Evolution
    • Tera-Scale Data Appliances for Business Intelligence
    • Architecture for the Ages: Optimal Data Migration / ETL Solutions
    • Storing Smarter: Enterprise Active Archiving
    • Data Vault Series 3 – End Dates and Basic Joins
    • Data Value Domains
    • DBAs! You Should Fear XML!
    • A Meta Data Repository Is The Key To Knowledge Management
    • Databases need to do the job better – without having to upgrade.
    • Why Data Quality is Undermining Business Success
    • The Database Report – April 2003
    • DAMA Corner – April 2003
    • METAbits – April 2003

  • January

    • The Database Report – January 2003
    • Standard SQL
    • UML 2 for Dummies
    • DB2 Developer’s Guide – 4th Ed
    • DAMA Corner – January 2003
    • METAbits – January 2003
    • A New Way of Thinking – January 2003
    • Mind Your Language
    • Why a CIO Isn’t
    • Grammar of Business Rules: Part Three
    • Enterprise Architecture & Ptechs Framework
    • Meta Data Repository: A System That Manages Our Systems
    • ROI for Data Quality
    • Data Vault Series 2 – Data Vault Components
    • Avoiding Problem Solution Confusion
    • Making Your Entities Behave
    • Frameworks, Meta-Data Repository & the Knowledge Worker
    • The BIS Roadmap

• 2002

  • November

    • Enterprise Architecture & Popkin’s System Architect
    • Data Management & Information Quality
    • Data Management is More Important Now Than Ever
    • Product Review – Popkin Software’s System Architect

  • October

    • The Database Report – October 2002
    • DAMA Corner – October 2002
    • METAbits – October 2002
    • Mars Orbiter Disaster – A Failure of Data Management
    • Stewardship in 3-D: De Facto, Discipline, & Database
    • Measures of Data Model Value
    • A Profile of Adaptive Addressing
    • Getting Down to Data Basics
    • IT Portfolio Management
    • A 3D Software Architecture Framework
    • Graphical Patterns for Data Models
    • Finding Meaning in Systems
    • Email Archive Management

  • July

    • The Database Report – July 2002
    • Business Rules Grammar Part 2 – Thingee Business Rule Classification Scheme
    • Top 10 Underutilized Call Center Software Capabilities
    • Are You Measuring Up? IT’s Time for an Accounting
    • Impossible Data Warehouse Situations: Management Issues
    • Putting the Data Back in Data Architecture
    • The Denormalization Survival Guide Part 2
    • Business Intelligence and CRM: Staying Alive in the New Economy
    • Declarative Not Narrative
    • Data Vault Series 1 – Data Vault Overview
    • Meta Data Repositories: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
    • DAMA Corner – July 2002
    • METAbits – July 2002
    • And Where do XML Tags Come From?
    • A Universal Person and Organization Data Model

  • April

    • The Database Report – April 2002
    • DAMA Corner – April 2002
    • Business Rules Spotlight – April 2002
    • METAbits – April 2002
    • So You Survived the Disaster – Did Your Company?
    • Data Warehousing & ERP – A Combination of Forces
    • Be Careful What You Ask For With Consultants
    • Business Rules Grammar Part 1
    • To Buy a Repository Or Not to Buy a Repository?
    • What is VLDB? Very Large Databases Part 3
    • Model Driven Information Architecture
    • The Denormalization Survival Guide – Part I
    • A Repository Model – Business Rules (Action Assertions)
    • Doing .NET Right … Looking at the Critical Success Factors
    • Practically-Oriented Conceptual Model for OLAP
    • Applying Dimensional Analysis to Business Intelligence Systems

  • January

    • The Database Report – January 2002
    • Requirements Analysis: From Business Views to Architecture
    • Guidelines to Implementing Data Resource Management, 4th Ed
    • Database Administration – The Complete Guide to Practices and Procedures
    • Business Rules Applied
    • Beyond “E”: 12 Ways Technology is Transforming Sales and Marketing Strategy
    • Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for Extreme Programming and the Unified Process
    • DAMA Corner – January 2002
    • Business Rules Spotlight – January 2002
    • What is a Business Rules Approach?
    • Which Should Come First – the Chicken or the Egg?
    • What is VLDB? – Very Large Databases Part 2
    • E-Commerce Vs. Data Management
    • Architecting for CRM
    • A Repository Model – Business Rules – Part I
    • Enterprise-Wide Project Management
    • Introduction to Web Services
    • Know Your Document Constituency
    • Competitive Intelligence – Real-Time Knowledge Management
    • Profitability and Mining Web Data: Avoiding the Path to Red Ink

• 2001

  • November

    • Event Progress Diagrams
    • A New Direction for Data Resource Management

  • October

    • The Database Report – October 2001
    • DAMA Corner – October 2001
    • Business Rules Spotlight – October 2001
    • Techniques for Modeling As-Is Processes (Part Two)
    • The Importance of the Data & Knowledge Management Specialist
    • Meta Data Architecture Fundamentals
    • What is VLDB? Very Large Databases
    • Debunking the CRM Myth
    • The Single Customer View: A Valuable Tool or a Narrow Definition?
    • Adam Smith and the Software Industry
    • Enterprise Architecture: The What’s and How’s
    • The Co-Existance of Digital and Paper Documents
    • The Reference Data Challenge for Data Administration
    • Benefits of Creating Ensembles of Classifiers
    • Meet the New Information Architects

  • July

    • The Database Report – July 2001
    • DAMA Corner – July 2001
    • Business Rules Spotlight – July 2001
    • A Disaster Crying for Solutions
    • Techniques for Modeling As-Is Processes (Part One)
    • Borrowing From OO
    • Meta Data ROI: The Evolution of Business
    • Accumulative E-Business Intelligence
    • A Column by Any Other Name is Not a Data Element
    • The Role of XML in Business Re-Engineering
    • Where Does a Document Strategy Fit in the Corporate Picture?
    • Enterprise Information Portal Revolution
    • If You Wish to Change the World, Start with Yourself: An Alternative Metaphor for Object Interaction

  • April

    • The Database Report – April 2001
    • Business Rules Spotlight – April 2001
    • Using Knowledge Management Tools to Reduce Risk in Professional Service Engagements
    • Business Impact of Knowledge Management
    • The Foundation of Excellent Performance
    • Practical Data Administration
    • Understanding Legacy-to-Package Data Movement
    • Top Mistakes to Avoid When Building a Data Warehouse
    • Dealing with De-Normalization of Lookup Tables
    • Defining the Requirements for a Business Rule Repository
    • Is SQL a Real Standard Anymore?
    • Geospatial Data Mining for Market Intelligence
    • Practical Tips for Ensuring Data Quality in Global Data Warehouses
    • The Growth of Digital Information
    • ERP II – Deja-vu?

  • January

    • The Database Report – January 2001
    • Butterfly Ballots Flustered Floridians
    • Writing Effective Use Cases
    • The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Knowledge Management
    • Slack
    • Practical International Data Management
    • Information Modeling and Relational Databases: From Conceptual Analysis to Logical Design
    • Enterprise Knowledge Management: The Data Quality Approach
    • Data Warehousing and E-Commerce
    • Data Quality: The Field Guide
    • Data Model Resource Book, revised volume 1 & 2
    • Corporate Information Factory – 2nd Edition
    • Meta Data as a Knowledge Management Enabler
    • The Importance of Names
    • Independent Data Marts – Part 2
    • The E-Commerce Data Dream Team
    • Understanding and Overcoming the Unavoidable Error and Variation in Identity Data
    • A Repository Model – The Object-Oriented Design Model
    • Data is Executed Policy
    • The Importance of Architecture for Enterprises
    • The Framework for Enterprise Architecture
    • Perspective and Abstraction
    • The Time Has Come for Enterprise Data Quality Management
    • Data Quality Starts at the Front Line

• 2000

  • October

    • Teaching Data Management in MIS
    • Knowledge Management: It’s Not All About the Portal
    • Denormalization and the Rules of Reconstruction
    • How to Avoid the Two Extremes of Data Quality Software
    • The eDBA and Data Availability
    • Business Rules in Data Warehousing
    • Independent Data Marts – Part 1
    • A Repository Model – The Relational Design Model
    • E-Biz Metrics
    • The Cycle of Change
    • Measuring the Quality of Models
    • Data Warehouse Failures

  • July

    • The Last, Best Place to Integrate the Enterprise: Why Organizations Need an Enterprise Data Warehouse
    • An Update on the Database Wars
    • How To Do a Data Warehouse Assessment (And Why)
    • Advanced Metadata Architecture
    • A Repository Model – The Analysis Model
    • A New Paradigm for Successful Acquisition of Information Systems
    • Secrets of Software Maintenance
    • Demystifying Document Strategy Design
    • Managing Metadata Within and Across Warehousing Efforts
    • From Ugly Duckling to Swan
    • Satisfying the User

  • April

    • Y2K Post Mortem
    • Business Processes and Logical Process Modeling – An Overview
    • Critical Success Factors for Data Warehouse Engineering Part 2
    • A Framework for Characterizing Knowledge Management Methods, Practices & Technologies
    • The E-Dilemma
    • Data Model Views
    • How Much Can Data Analysis be Automated?
    • Nine Steps to Successful Customer-Centric Databases
    • The Knowledge Advantage – Maximizing Data Quality in the Data Warehouse Through Enterprise-Wide Understanding
    • Through the Looking Glass

  • January

    • What Not How: The Business Rules Approach to Application Development
    • Mastering Data Modeling
    • Managing Reference Data in Enterprise Databases
    • Essential Oracle 8i Data Warehousing
    • e-Business Readiness
    • E-Business and ERP: Transforming the Enterprise
    • Data Warehouse Project Management
    • Data Resource Quality – Turning Bad Habits Into Good Practices
    • Building Corporate Portals with XML
    • Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository
    • Business Requirements Gathering – An Overview
    • Questions Metadata Can Answer
    • A Simplified Approach to Information Stewardship (Revisited)
    • Extraction, Transformation, and Load Issues and Approaches
    • XML & EDI – Peaceful Co-Existence
    • Make vs Buy – The Data Movement Dilemma
    • Critical Success Factors for Data Warehouse Engineering Part 1
    • Web Mining
    • Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid When Developing a Metadata Repository
    • Knowledge Management
    • The Impact of Technology
    • Entities, Attributes and Elements: What Language(s) Are We Speaking?
    • Reinvent Yourself

• 1999

  • September

    • Information Systems Plan:
    • The Emergence and Potential of Enterprise Information Portals (EIPs)
    • The Next Level of Information Systems
    • Repository Directions – Part Two
    • Comparing Replication Technologies
    • Creating A Project Plan
    • Performance Measurement:
    • Ok, So What is this XML Thing?
    • Digging Up Dollars with Data Mining- An Executive’s Guide
    • Data Archeology
    • SQL Server 7.0 – A Consultant’s Perspective
    • XML: Catalyst for Convergence?
    • Untangling Spaghetti (Real World ODSs)

  • June

    • Use the Millenium to Your Technical Advantage
    • Data Warehouse and the ETL Tool
    • Systems Architecture:
    • Data Resource Management Certification Programs
    • Doubts About El Dorado:
    • Applying the IT Component-Framework Model to Data Interface Management
    • How A Lack of Project Management Can Sink A Data Warehouse Project
    • DAMA International Symposium and Technology Transfer Institute (TTI) Metadata Conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey – April 1999
    • Object Orientation and Information Engineering:
    • Meta Data and XML for Business
    • A Component-Based Knowledge Management System
    • Customer Relationship Management Begins With Enterprise-Wide Data Quality
    • Repository Directions – Part 1
    • A Headhunter: Not an Executive Recruiter

  • March

    • Best of Times – Worst of Times
    • IT-Driven Data Warehousing:
    • Data Warehouse:
    • Defining Data Visualization
    • What is Knowledge and Can it Be Managed
    • Unsupervised Adaptive Clustering for Data Prospecting and Data Mining
    • Documenting Meta Data Transformations
    • Object Orientation and Information Engineering:
    • Oracle 8.04 Performance Enhancements
    • Data Warehouse Applications by Industry
    • Selecting the “Right” Meta Data to Manage
    • Problems with Conventional Meta Data Management Methods
    • Great News – The Relational Model is Dead
    • Human Resources: The Forgotten Treasure

  • January

    • Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality
    • DB2 for OS/390 Development for Performance
    • Database Magic with Ken North
    • Building the Operational Data Store, 2nd Ed
    • A Model for Data Resource Management Guidelines

• 1998

  • December

    • Using Levels of Abstraction to Name Data Elements
    • Data Administration: Part of the Problem?
    • Enterprise Architecture: What and Why?
    • Using Check Constraints to Simulate Domains
    • When I Learned About Entities
    • Document Renaissance
    • Building a Better Data Model
    • DBAs Don’t Need Meta Data
    • Object Orientation & Information Engineering:
    • Data Warehousing: Enabling the Strategic Shift to a Customer-Centric Business
    • Neglected no Matter how you Spell it

  • September

    • Meta Data Themes – Part Two
    • Proactive Performance for the Data Warehouse
    • Achieving Enterprise Data Quality
    • Database Objects: The Foundation Stones of Enterprise Database
    • Object-Orientation and Business-Driven Information Engineering
    • A Component Framework Model for Information Technology Arcitecture – Part Two
    • Tools for a Comprehensive Database Environment – Part 2
    • The DNA of Data Warehousing
    • Formal Model-Driven Development Methodology
    • Practical Advice for Managing Poor Warehouse Performance
    • Data Warehousing Perspective: It IS NOT A Technology
    • Data is Alpha and Omega

  • June

    • Data Model Evaluation Workplan
    • Advanced Data Model Patterns
    • A Component Framework Model for Information Technology Architecture
    • The Enterprise Data Model: A Key Ingredient for Successful Data Warehousing
    • Tools for a Comprehensive Database Environment – Part 1
    • Change Management
    • Data Admin Position Responsibilities
    • Data Wise Perspective: We’ve Been Out Of Focus
    • Meta Data Themes – Part One – The Basics
    • Transforming Business Through Data Quality Improvement
    • Database Architectures (Part 2)
    • Seven Keys to Selecting a Decision Support Consulting Firm

  • March

    • Database Architectures (Part 1)
    • A Project Model is a Constrained Subset of an Enterprise Model
    • Patterns and the Zachman Framework
    • What’s in a Name?
    • Justification for an Enterprise Model
    • Enterprise Information Architecture
    • The Warehouse Meets the Web
    • Meta Data the Answer, What Was Question?
    • Productivity Paradox
    • Top Ten Principles of DB Performance Tuning
    • Modeling Realities: Communicating Consensus

  • January

    • The Practical Guide to BPR Using IDEFO
    • Oracle8 Data Warehousing
    • Oracle: The Complete Reference
    • If Only We Knew What We Know; The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practice
    • Foundation for Object-Relational Databases: The Third Manifesto
    • Data Mining Techniques: For Marketing, Sales, and Customer Support
    • Data Mining: A Hands-On Approach
    • customers.com

• 1997

  • December

    • Components of a Data Warehouse
    • Information Usefulness
    • Specifications: Pointing the Way
    • The Competitive Armageddon: Survival and Prosperity in the Connected World of The Internet
    • A Misplaced Data Warehouse Group
    • Outsourcing: Scourge or Salvation?
    • Attribute & Column Naming Standards: The Zachman Framework Solves A Problem
    • Perspective: Will the Real Repository Please Stand Up
    • Data Warehousing: A Short Overview
    • Pre-Decision Support
    • Top Ten Tips for Data Warehouse Success
    • Capability Maturity Model from a Data Perspective

  • September

    • Data Warehousing Strategies: Providing Insulation from Packaged Application/Legacy Systems
    • System Architecture: Jargon or Strategic Weapon
    • IRM: Data Administration VS. Database Administration
    • Data Stewardship: Process for Achieving Data Integrity
    • How to Build a Solid Foundation for Your Warehouse
    • Objects and Business Views
    • The Role of NIST in SQL Standardization
    • Data Administration and the Internet
    • Grade School Lessons: Applied in Technology

  • June

    • Denormalization Guidelines
    • Using a Repository to Support Y2K Compliance
    • The Zachman Framework: An Introduction
    • Achieving Harmony Between Business and Information Technology
    • The Meta Data Interchange Specification
    • How to Protect the Data Warehouse Using the Repository
    • A Simplified Approach to Information Stewardship
    • Hitching Your Wagon to a Star
    • Database Marketing: Technology-Enabled Advantages in the Nineties
    • How to Implement a Meta Data Strategy
    • How to Create a Data Administration Mission Statement

  • January

    • The Data Model Resource Book
    • Data Warehousing, Data Mining & OLAP
    • Data Warehouse: Practical Advice From Experts
    • Data Stores, Data Warehousing, and the Zachman Framework

• 1996

  • January

    • The Data Warehouse Toolkit
    • Implementing a Corporate Repository
    • Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought