Article Results (Showing 1 - 10 of 14) RSS Alert

Metadata is the DNA for Your Organization

Iâm currently reading Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade for the second time. The book describes our human ancestors (thatâs all of us) who...
DM Review, 06/01/08 by Sid Adelman · More from publication
Without a Data Governance Strategy

What happens to an organization if it does not have a data governance strategy (DGS)? Most organizations are only now considering establishing one,...
DM Review, 03/01/08 by Sid Adelman · More from publication
Reference Checking, Part 2

You don't have to travel to the reference site. It is far cheaper, faster and more effective (because you can talk to more references) to use the...
DM Review, 05/01/07 by Sid Adelman · More from publication
Reference Checking, Part 1

Selecting software may be a chore, and the process can often delay a project. Reference checking is the least time-consuming way to learn how the...
DM Review, 04/01/07 by Sid Adelman · More from publication
Capturing Intellectual Capital in Metadata

In the 1964 movie Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the doomsday machine (a device that would cover the...
DM Review, 02/01/07 by Sid Adelman and Bonnie O'Neil · More from publication
Chicken or the Egg – Which Came First?

There's finally an answer - the egg came first. If you accept evolutionary theory - but remember, it's just a theory, along with the theory of...
DM Review, 01/01/07 by Sid Adelman · More from publication

BI Bling

Even since Charles Joseph Minard's 1869 representation of Napoleon's march and retreat from Russia, visualization has been an accepted and...
DM Review, 11/01/06 by Sid Adelman · More from publication
Mastering the Exhibit Hall

You were sent to a conference to learn from the instructors, to network with other attendees, to gather some information on the vendors your...
DM Review, 07/01/06 by Sid Adelman · More from publication
Should the Data Warehouse be Outsourced?

One of the top issues for CIOs is the outsourcing of IT. Most CIOs are being asked by their CFOs to strongly consider outsourcing and offshoring...
DM Review, 05/01/06 by Sid Adelman · More from publication
Direction from the Chairman of the Board

This is my first column on the topic of selecting technology and services. Future columns will recommend a due diligence process to select...
DM Review, 03/01/06 by Sid Adelman · More from publication