TDAN.com – Archive
November 2009
Articles Business Event Management
by Michael M. Gorman
Mike Gorman offers an approach that can capture the business event transactions themselves, the history of the business event transactions and the interrelationships among business event transactions.
Architecture Made Easy, Part 7
by Mary Kotch, James Luisi
Data Road Map: A Journey Within Information Architecture
A data road map can be a useful tool for illuminating the path that will lead to an improved level of maturity for understanding, managing and optimizing the data landscape.
Just the Facts About Mainframe Specialty Processors
by Craig S. Mullins
What are specialty processors and why do they exist? Craig Mullins explains their uses in this article.
Data for Information Management
by Vishal Gupta
Relook at Data for Today’s Business
Special Features The Field of Dreams Mind-Set
by Bill Inmon
Bill Inmon explains why the “field of dreams” strategy is appropriate for business intelligence. DAMA-DMBOK Available!
by Deborah Henderson
DAMA has created the DAMA Data Management Guide to the Body of Knowledge (DAMA-DMBOK) – the first "authoritative resource" for data management best practices in 40 years of IT practice. More Special Features >
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Featured Columns DAMA Corner – November 2009
by DAMA International, Loretta Mahon Smith, CCP, CBIP, CDMP
Loretta Mahon Smith provides an update on DAMA activities and chapters. Business Rules – November 2009
by Ronald G. Ross
You Need Verbs, Not Just Nouns: About Fact Models
Data models and class diagrams have never much focused on verb concepts. That omission is a harmful one. A well-organized business vocabulary not only has noun concepts as represented by terms, but also verb-ish connections between those noun concepts as represented by wordings. These verb-ish connections give structure to basic business knowledge – that is, they represent fundamental connectives in the operational business you need to know and talk about, especially in expressing requirements and business rules. A graphical fact model aids in visualizing these semantics, providing a multi-purpose blueprint to the inherent structure underlying your company’s data and data designs.
Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide – November 2009
by Larry Burns
The Evolution of the DBA
Larry Burns discusses how Agile is changing the traditional role of the DBA. Architecture Is Objective, Design Is Subjective – November 2009
by Adrian Miley
Avoiding "Mere Implementation Detail"
Avoiding “mere implementation detail” is about ensuring that the IT architecture framework only provides information when it is needed at the point that it is needed and leaving the next level of detail to be dealt with by the people best suited to the task. This column discusses this subject in more detail. More Featured Columns >
Perspectives Managing Risk in a Flat World
by Isaac Cheifetz
More Perspectives >
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