Cloud First! but…
Ultimately, the drive to cloud will succeed, or fail, based on your ability to understand and govern your data, in-premise and in the cloud.
Architecting for big data in the cloud
Last month I was invited to speak at the 2017 ITWeb Cloud Summit on the topic – Cloud Architecture for Big Data Analytics. The presentation was scheduled for the last slot of the day – 17:00 to 17:35 – in spite of which we had quite a good audience and, I hope, an informative and…
From business glossary to data authority
The business glossary is a common output of many data governance programs. Ambiguity is a common source of frustration and risk in business. Why do two reports, both measuring Sale per Region, give different results? Which is correct? It may be as simple as that one report shows invoiced and collected revenue only – the…
Data Architecture 101: A leaky tale of plumbers, builders and planners
Prelude Though the role of architecture in the built environment is well understood, it has more than one meaning – Wikipedia. It is, therefore, not surprising that data architecture means different things to different people. I have been to several data architecture job interviews where the conversation quickly pares down to either data modelling, data…
