But We’re All Doing It! — Data wrangling is not a good thing. It’s nothing to be embraced or accepted. It’s a horrible practice. Data wrangling is indicative of a time where the volume and variety of data is greater than a human’s ability to keep up with it. Current technology may enable people to be…

TOGAF defines architecture as : “The structure of components, their inter-relationships, and the principles and guidelines governing their design and evolution over time.” There are different enterprise architecture frameworks, but they all have many similar elements in common. They all help manage the job of integrating the people, processes, and…

Whatever we practice, we become professional at. For decades, organizations have been managing data with relational database systems, and as a result, are now able to demonstrate an unprecedented level of expertise when it comes to working with their data in these systems and their accompanying applications. SQL has become…

“There were all of these really smart people, and then there was you.” I started my career at Sun Microsystems as a Systems Engineer in ERP-IT. It was an incredible experience and I was blessed to have a great manager there who set the bar high early for me in…

I was reading this Dataversity article on Bridging the Data Gap Between Business and IT. It’s a decent read. I know the author. He’s a nice guy and makes some decent points. He can be kind of a jackass sometimes, but mostly I think he’s alright. But something really didn’t…

The Sentient Enterprise: A mind meld between a Teradata CTO and a business professor. This read gets you excited about data and where we’re headed with all these data management technologies. They lay out a vision and a methodology for unifying data in an architecture that progresses toward the title…

So, this is a fun one. The inspiration for Two Types of Organizations actually came to me from a recent experience I had in performing a POC for a client. This is the situation where the POC is actually wildly successful in its completion (is there any other possible outcome?)…

In my experience I’ve found that there are groups that embrace the truth and those that try to hide from it. I prefer working with the former. Let me explain. Whenever you connect data from disparate sources into a unified view, you’re going to show people things they’ve never seen…

What’s missing is a way for non-technical users to clearly communicate the business model* of their own company’s data to their technical experts. In the beginning, there was an idea for a company. A group had an idea to create and sell a line of products. The way the company…