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 ...

Executive Summary 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, ...

Introduction 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 ...

As befitting the name of this column “Data Professional Introspective,” I’m sharing my current thinking with you. As an informal homework assignment between meetings, I set out to abstract and ...

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 ...

IoT data management includes the practices, technologies, and policies involved in managing data generated by IoT devices. Management tasks include the collection, storage, analysis, and sharing of ...

Abstract 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 ...

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 ...

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 2024, our research at Dresner Advisory Services revealed that only 32% of organizations have a formal data governance organization in place. This statistic highlights a critical gap, especially as ...

What is a Data Glossary and how is it Different from a Data Dictionary? This is a question I get asked a lot. IT people are generally happy that they understand what a data dictionary is and in my ...

A Data Steward is someone that has formal accountability for data in the organization. I say that everybody in the organization is a Data Steward. You may disagree with me or think that this idea is ...