June 2007
EIM Component Framework Dependencies – Part 1
Many organizations struggle to obtain the full benefits of their EIM initiative by approaching the framework components as a set of projects and not as an interdependent program. This type of approach leads to…
Information Quality Characteristics (part 1), guest author: James Funk
Information quality can have many different definitions. If you listen carefully to people describing issues they have with data that they use, you hear them talk about inaccurate data, data that is not relevant…
The Building Blocks of Enterprise Information Management (part 3) – Data Governance
In last month’s column I discussed the importance of data governance for the Enterprise Information Management (EIM) program. In this article I will discuss the first tasks that the data governance team must address…
WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ METHODOLOGY
In my last article, I explained how I chose my column name: Back to Basics. As an example, I mentioned how amazed I was to discover that many companies don’t have a data strategy…
THE FRAMEWORK FOR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE: Background, Description and Utility
In the early ‘80’s, there was little interest in the idea of Enterprise Engineering or Enterprise Modeling and the use of formalisms and models was generally limited to some aspects of application development within…
A BRIEF HISTORY OF DATA WAREHOUSING FROM THE VENDOR’S PERSPECTIVE (PART II)
One industry that did start as a series of new products with the advent of data warehousing was the ETL industry. In the very beginning, all code for placing data in a data warehouse…
Writing a Data Governance Charter – Statement of Intent
Many companies are discovering a problem when they attempt to integrate separate systems into an enterprise view of data – poor data quality. This discovery often leads to the development of a data governance…
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