By W H Inmon Lately, people have been claiming that a data warehouse is of necessity centralized in a single location or on a single…
Normalization of Knowledge
By Donavon Gooldy Normalization is NOT an engineering exercise. The central principle that underlies its rules is that data redundancy, whether repeating groups of attributes or…
Business Glossary – Sooner Rather than Later
By Pete Stiglich Argues that implementing an enterprise business glossary early is one of the best investments for major data initiatives like MDM, EDW, CRM,…
Data Governance and Data Stewardship – keys to successful enterprise data initiatives
By Pete Stiglich Explains that enterprise data initiatives succeed when business involvement is strong, and it distinguishes three kinds of involvement: stakeholders, data governance, and…
