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by Tony Shaw There’s a story about Chicago’s O’Hare airport that sounds absurd and yet everyone can somehow relate to it. The story goes that the tower at the airport had been using ancient computers and equipment for ages, all while newer systems wasted away in unopened boxes. The problem was that there was...
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by David Plotkin I recently joined a new company, and as with all such endeavors, there was a really long list of things I had to do to get everything set up in a variety of systems. You know the stuff – HR used to do it for us, but then someone figured out...
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by Abayomi Oloko NoSQL databases are gaining quite a chunk of attention in technology circles today. From Google to Amazon, Facebook to Twitter, there has been a lot of talk about the major shift in the way we traditionally perceive and understand databases. More important is an understanding of the architecture of these databases....
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by Rick Clements When asked about Master Data Management (MDM) I often focus my answer on the most common form of MDM – customer data integration – which connects customer information from different parts of the company. This means that business decision makers have a more complete view of who the customer is including:...
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by Robert Greene Wall Street’s getting all sentimental on us. Not in the sense that they are all of a sudden pining away for some form of the past. No, what I mean is that new trading strategies that look beyond just ticker quantitative financial data to incorporate information from sources like RSS feeds,...
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by David Schlesinger CISSP With the arrival of the Internet everything changed. Not just the introduction of email, SPAM and selling ice-cream makers via websites; not even eBay™ and massive multi-player games; no, the thing that changed was that all along the broadband connection there sits a word full of people. Once upon a...
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by Jaime Fitzgerald @jaimefitzgerald According to Peter Drucker, “There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.” (The Practice of Management, 1954). Put simply, companies exist to acquire and serve customers profitably. In today’s data-driven era of ‘Big Data” and related technology, the benefits of relentless “customer-centricity” are within...
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by Max Gano In my last post we saw how Mark Simpson recovered from stalled program funding by rolling out a working process for governing data within World Vision International. He switched his focus from general enterprise concerns to establishing much needed data controls for a few key technology initiatives. He then coordinated implementation...
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by Abayomi Oloko Many big businesses started small and have grown big over time. This growth is normally measured in terms of sales, profitability, expanding operations, turnover and the like. In today’s world, a growing business is expected to have adopted technology as a major force driving its growth. Desktop Computers, Servers, Laptops, Data...
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by David Plotkin Larry English recommends “designing in” data quality into new systems, and I agree that this is very important. One of the ways you can accomplish “designing in” of data quality is to work closely with the User Interface team. This is even more important when multiple new systems (or major system...
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