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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

In the age of algorithmic intelligence, data is no longer just an asset — it is a self-regulating system whose health determines the stability and success of modern enterprises. To manage data ...

There is a movement in the business and academic worlds to consider relabeling the name of the long-time data discipline of “Data Governance” to “Data Enablement”. Usually, when someone tells me ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Metadata Repository provides a single—albeit often logical—repository for gathering, integrating, storing, sharing, and visualizing metadata and its incumbent capabilities and structures. The ...