I was reading last week about Data Stewardship. This is near and dear to our hearts along with the other catch item of data governance. The definition of responsibility was at 1,000 feet: Data Quality; Integration; Profiling; Loading; Accessibility; and Security and Privacy. Thi
You’ll know the world is a changed place when dictionaries sound exciting, when encyclopedia are required reading, watching paint dry is made an olympic event, and metadata becomes popular. "Not in my life time," you say. Well think again because metadata &
I’ve spent a lot of time in system design meetings where performance was discussed. The conclusion of many of those meetings being: "It’s too early to worry about performance. We needed to focus on requirements & functionality; we didn’t want to get bo
Over the past 3 months Graham and I have been in many conversations with some of Canada’s top companies and the buzz has been about SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). So as part of an initiative with a client we came up with a view that seems to mesh with the current goi
I just left a meeting with the CEO of a Financial Services firm and he made a comment about a customer story we were discussing. I was talking about a client who had asked us to get involved with something, we have said we would support them, but we really think they should look
I was listening to a colleagues weekle podcast (check it out at MIP’s Scan) and he started to talk about blogs. One of the values that it can bring to a corporation, is an area for free flowing Innovation Networks. This is one of the things we are trying to create wi
Over the past 5 years I have heard many vendors and clients talk about partnerships and that the real value of being a partner is in the ability to help the client innovate. The challenge though is that in today’s buying/procurement model, when you bring an innovation to a clien
In many client meetings we hear about the design dilemna around Enterprise vs Federated Datawarehouses and then again Data Marts. These are all valid solutions depending on the organizational needs, constraints and readiness. In the following post we are going to talk about Enterprise
Over the past couple of decades many conversations, theories and more importantly practical implementations of sourcing for services have been going on. Today there are a multitude of options available to organizations – off-shore, near-shore outsourcing, and now even more preve
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