Data Modeling & Data Integration from DATAVERSITY About the Webinar Data Integration is a key part of many of today’s data management challenges: from data warehousing, to MDM, to mergers & acquisitions. Issues can arise not only in trying to align technical formats from various databases and legacy systems, but in trying to achieve […]
What Is Ontology?
Ontology is often considered a subset of taxonomy. An ontology: Is a domain; contains more information about the behavior of entities and the relationships between them; includes formal names, definitions and attributes of entities; and, may be constructed using OWL, the Ontology Web Language from the W3C. Other Definitions of Ontology Include: “A data model […]
Knowledge Maps – How to Ask a Good Data Question
Click to learn more about author John Singer. The good news about the Knowledge Map is you can start anywhere and build out from there. Because data is organized into facts, each fact being represented by a subject node, relationship (predicate), and an object node on the graph (see Knowledge Maps – A New Model For […]
Webinar: Getting Started with Data Governance? Use Process Models!
To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> This Webinar is Sponsored by: About the Webinar In order to prepare for a data governance initiative, companies need to break down their organizational silos and address inefficiencis in business process. Any organization will use a number of different business processes for operations, sales, marketing, […]
Slides: Getting Started with Data Governance? Use Process Models!
Getting Started with Data Governance? Use Process Models! from DATAVERSITY To view the On Demand recording of this presentation, click HERE>> This Webinar is Sponsored by: About the Webinar In order to prepare for a data governance initiative, companies need to break down their organizational silos and address inefficiencis in business process. Any organization will […]
Pragmatic Polyglot Data Analysis
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. Yesterday was a pretty fast-paced day for me in New York. In the morning I took a walk from my midtown hotel to the Koch Queensboro Bridge (Simon and Garfunkel fans will know it as the 59th St Bridge) where I ducked speedy bicyclists crossing over and […]
Facilitating Collaborative Data Governance, Enterprise Data Architecture, and Data Modeling
“On its own, Big Data means nothing. It’s got to exist, coexist, and work with the other data,” said Ron Huizenga, Senior Product Manager at IDERA Software. “The good news in the industry is [that] we’re past Big Data being the shiny ball that people are chasing,” and now we’re trying to assess what Big […]
What Is Taxonomy?
Taxonomy represents the formal structure of classes or types of objects within a domain. It organizes knowledge by using a controlled vocabulary to make it easier to find related information. A taxonomy must: Follow a hierarchic format and provides names for each object in relation to other objects. May also capture the membership properties of […]
Press Release: The 22nd Annual Enterprise Data World Conference Is Accepting Presentation Proposals
Los Angeles, California – DATAVERSITY Education, LLC and DAMA International released the Call for Presentations for the 2018 Enterprise Data World Conference to be held at the Sheraton Hotel & Marina in San Diego, CA on April 22-27, 2018. Visit http://enterprisedataworld.com for event details and speaker submission guidelines, then submit your proposal online by September 22, 2017. […]
“Talk to me, Data!” – Getting Data Models Right
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. The title of this post sounds as if it is a quote from a Star Trek episode. I don’t believe it is, but a lot of the dialogue involving Lt. Commander Data is indeed about understanding. Here is an example from Star Trek: The Next Generation: Starship […]