TDAN.com – Archive
August 2009
Articles The Cultural Impedance Mismatch
by Scott W. Ambler
Scott Ambler reminds us that both object technology and the agile development paradigm are here to stay, and he provides suggestions for removing the communication barriers that exist between
developers and data professionals.
Architecture Made Easy, Part 5
by Mary Kotch, James Luisi
Assessing Company Health: The Asset that Investors, Regulators and Legislators Need to Recognize
Corporate assets of value are people, property, and data. While people and property assets within publicly traded companies are typically well-regulated with business and legislative oversight, the
data asset is not.
Insights into the Interplay of Data Architecture Components
by Anupama Nithyanand, S. V. Subrahmanya, P. A. Sundararajan
Data architecture components address mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive functionalities required to carry out the business goals. These components, though separated by their unique
functionalities, have some non-obvious relationships that this article brings to the fore. The components considered are data governance, metadata, data quality, master data management, data
analytics and data mining, data warehousing, replication and distributed databases.
The Ghost in the Machine
by Michael M. David
ANSI SQL Inherent Hierarchical Data Processing
Now that hierarchical data structures are popular again because of XML, their full hierarchical processing is still being limited to flat two dimensional linear path processing by relational
processing. This will change when database professionals realize that ANSI SQL relational processing can now support full multipath nonlinear hierarchical processing.
Special Features Interview with Barbara von Halle & Larry Goldberg
by Robert S. Seiner
The Decision Model - New Book
Robert Seiner interviews Barbara von Halle and Larry Goldberg about their new book, The Decision Model: A Business Logic Framework Linking Business and Technology. Review of The Decision Model: A Business Logic Framework Linking Business and Technology
by David C. Hay
David Hay reviews The Decision Model: A Business Logic Framework for Linking Business and Technology, by Barbara von Halle and Larry Goldberg. More Special Features >
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Featured Columns Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide - August 2009
by Larry Burns
In Defense of the “Intelligent Database”
Larry Burns explains why it makes the most sense to do the data work in the DBMS. Business Rules – August 2009
by Ronald G. Ross
You Need Structured Business Vocabularies, Not Just Data Models
Creating a shared business vocabulary is an important up-front cost of doing business effectively in today’s ever more knowledge-intensive world. The business benefits, however, are
substantial. Managing, operating, and interacting based on agreed vocabulary is basic not only to improving business communication, but to retaining core business ‘know how’ as well.
These are hardly luxuries in a world where staffs are ever more volatile, self-service is rapidly becoming the norm, and delivery platforms are forever evolving. Architecture Is Objective, Design Is Subjective – August 2009
by Adrian Miley
Enterprise Domain Decomposition & Coherence Boundaries
In designing any distributed enterprise data architecture, one of the most important activities is decomposing the domain to produce logical component data-sets (representing business areas) that
can, as far as possible, be deployed and managed in isolation to each other. This article discusses a number of the key issues that need to be addressed to achieve this. DAMA Corner – August 2009
by DAMA International, Loretta Mahon Smith, CCP, CBIP, CDMP
Loretta Mahon Smith provides a DAMA update. More Featured Columns >
Perspectives Managing Risk in a Flat World
by Isaac Cheifetz
More Perspectives >
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