Data Access Shouldnʼt Require a Translator In most enterprises, data access still feels like a locked room with SQL as the ...

I had an epiphany while on the ice with my team. Our team has been together since 2018 — we’ve competed in several leagues, ...

In the age of algorithmic intelligence, data is no longer just an asset — it is a self-regulating system whose health ...

The enterprises that run our economy deploy business intelligence tools to put the power of analytics into the hands of ...

For several years, I have been an advocate for the concept of positive data control or PDC. It is the idea of placing a layer ...

Flavia Ann Albert Saldanha is vice president and data architect of modern data strategy and engineering at Fifth Third Bank. She leads company-wide initiatives in data architecture, governance, and AI ...

We are in the era of graphs. Graphs are hot. Why? Flexibility is one strong driver: heterogeneous data, integrating new data sources, and analytics all require flexibility. Graphs deliver it in spades ...

I was recently asked to present “Enterprise Ontology Design and Implementation Best Practices” to a group of motivated ontologists and wanna-be ontologists. I was flattered to be asked, but I really ...

It would be hard to imagine a data model that didn’t include persons, either as individuals or as groups. Models contain people in one of two ways: as organizational structures or as playing roles in ...

We are living in the age of a data revolution, and more corporations are realizing that to lead—or in some cases, to survive—they need to harness their data wealth effectively. The data warehouse, due ...

The term “data culture” is frequently used to describe a normative view about how an organization functions (or more precisely, should function) with respect to its data. The term is not particularly ...

Recently, I was giving a presentation and someone asked me which segment of “the DAMA wheel” did I think semantics most affected. I said I thought it affected all of them pretty profoundly, but ...