AI agents can do amazing things to make the lives of IT professionals easier. But, they also have the potential to do ...

Recently, I’ve been digging into what the future of work and the workforce might be in a post-GenAI world. Right now, ...

Technology often moves faster than the rules meant to govern it. Regulators, tasked with protecting data they don’t always ...

I’ve written elsewhere about the value of grounding your metrics program in semantics.1 This article goes well beyond 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peter Chen invented data modeling with his innovative way of showing data structures in terms of entities and relationships. For the first time, complex data could be modeled so it was understandable ...

On my recent trip to London I visited the House of Lords. Imagine how surprised I was to hear Lords discussing a data-modeling question. A government minister was defending a definition from his data ...

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 ...

We are in the era of graphs. Graphs are hot. Why? Flexibility is one strong driver: heterogeneous data, integrating new data sources, and analytics all require flexibility. Graphs deliver it in spades ...

Data warehouses require a sizeable commitment of organizational resources. As a result, there is considerable interest in how they are initially justified and later assessed. Data warehousing costs ...