Click to learn more about author Ronald G. Ross. Getting Started This is the second part of a three-part series. See part one Confessions of a Concept Modeler here. In creating a concept model, you can start in any of several ways, whichever best fits your circumstances. For example, you can start by identifying terms or […]
Press Release: 24th Annual Enterprise Data World Conference Rescheduled for October
DATAVERSITY Education, LLC and DAMA International have officially rescheduled the 24th annual Enterprise Data World Conference (EDW) and announced the updated agenda. The rescheduled event will be merged with DATAVERSITY’s 2020 Data Architecture Summit (DAS) and be held October 18-23, 2020, at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. For more details about the program, speakers, […]
Confessions of a Concept Modeler
Click to learn more about author Ronald G. Ross. This is the first part of a three part series: Part Two is Creating Concept Models and Part Three is The Structure of Concept Models. We work with clients across a wide variety of industry sectors and, within those sectors, subject areas often new to us. You […]
Without Improved Business Skills, a Dark Day is Coming for Data Scientists
Click here to learn more about Ted Kwartler. Each semester my Harvard University Extension class is about half business and half computer science students. As you may expect, the business pupils struggle with learning how to code. However, computer scientists feel hindered by business case studies and learning how to interact in a cross-functional group. […]
The Conceptual Model Strikes Back!
“You must unlearn what you have learned” (Master Yoda) The “conceptual” level of Data Modeling has been a stepchild for many years and is mostly forgotten in fast-paced delivery projects today. Since the mid-nineties the legacy toolbox basically offered software-engineering inspired diagramming tools, and they did not communicate well on the business level. Fortunately, a […]
Slides: Moving from a Relational Model to NoSQL
Slides: Moving from a Relational Model to NoSQL from DATAVERSITY To view just the On Demand recording of this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Businesses are quickly moving to NoSQL databases to power their modern applications. However, a technology migration involves risk, especially if you have to change your […]
Webinar: Moving from a Relational Model to NoSQL
To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Businesses are quickly moving to NoSQL databases to power their modern applications. However, a technology migration involves risk, especially if you have to change your data model. What if you could host a relatively unmodified RDBMS schema […]
Instana Releases Context Guide, First Graphical UI Representation of an Application System Model
A new press release states, “Instana, a leading provider of automated Application Performance Management (APM) solutions for microservices, today announced the availability of the Instana Context Guide, providing GUI-based access to the company’s underlying system model called the Dynamic Graph. With the release of Context Guide, Instana becomes the first APM solution to provide a […]
KNIME Launches Integrated Deployment
According to a new press release, “KNIME today unveiled a groundbreaking approach — Integrated Deployment — to eliminate the gap between the creation of data science models and their use in production. Integrated Deployment allows not just a model but all of its associated preparation and post-process steps to be identified and automatically reused in […]
Data Architect vs. Data Modeler vs. Data Engineer
Michael Bowers, author and Chief Data Architect at FairCom Corporation, initially set out to research three careers in his presentation titled Data Architect vs. Data Modeler vs. Data Engineer for the DATAVERSITY® Data Architecture Online 2019 Conference. The process brought him to a wealth of information he would have appreciated much earlier in his career, […]