Click to learn more about author Joe deBuzna. Racing down the tracks with the equivalent of 170 Boeing 747s in tow, the 440,000 pound (200,000kg) next-generation locomotive is about to break. Some of the hundreds of sensors pulling in over 150,000 data points per minute show one of the train’s two turbochargers (yes, some trains have turbochargers) is starting […]
Next and Prior: Pointing in Data Models
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Pointers have been in and out of data models. From the advent of the rotating disk drive in the 60s and until around 1990, pointers were all over the place (together with “hierarchies”, which were early versions of aggregates of co-located data). But relational and SQL made them […]
Itential Announces Newest Release of its Intelligent Network Automation Solution
A new press release reports, “Itential, the leader in intelligent network automation, today announced the availability of Itential 6.0, the first low-code network automation solution for the modern network. With advanced capabilities for supporting the data-models associated with orchestrators and controllers, DevOps tools and cloud-orchestrators; Itential 6.0 avoids the silos traditionally associated with managing the […]
The Value of Strong Metadata Discovery
Too often professionals such as Data Analysts, Data Architects, and Compliance Specialists find themselves at a loss when it comes to being able, on their own, to discover, understand and use the rich Metadata within large enterprise ERP and CRM applications. It becomes complicated, costly, and time-consuming for these users to pull relevant business-context subsets […]
Design Thinking Data Models
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. I seriously believe, and I also know from professional experiences that Design Thinking is the secret sauce for creating high quality Data Models. This sounds contra intuitive, so we will have to do some debunking: ”Design Thinking – isn’t that for designing good looking products, like watches, […]
Detecting Data Models
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Did you ever dream about becoming a famous detective? A new (teenage, possibly) Sherlock Holmes? Well, in the area of Data Modeling you now have good chances of showing off how good you are at detecting. What? Well, detecting the data models from evidence, of course. This […]
Whither Data Modeling Education? (The Future of Data Modeling)
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Machine Generated Looking at machine generated data makes you wonder about the Data Modeling of such. Whodunnit? Actually, the whole Big Data tsunami was caused by ‘machine generated’ data coming in in great numbers. Unstoppable. We all know that ‘machine generated’ is not really a proper description […]
Data Models Create ‘Living Policy’ for Data Management
“Data Models can be the critical link between business definitions and rules, and the technical data systems that support them,” said Donna Burbank, Managing Director of Global Data Strategy, while speaking during her presentation Building Actionable Data Governance through Data Models & Metadata at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online 2017 Conference. She discussed how […]
Say No More: Verbal Data Models
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. ”Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more, say no more”. Says British Eric Idle in the third Monty Python’s Flying Circus episode, “How to Recognise Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way Away” from 1969. Indeed, it should not be necessary to say more, once […]
“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 […]