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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the seventh article in a series of articles by Robert S. Seiner. The past few chapters have discussed the KIK Data Governance Framework© that is demonstrated in the diagrambelow.Part 6 of this ...