We all wake up in the middle of the night for different reasons. Some of us awake over the stresses of family or work. For some, it’s a particular memory, like taking a final exam at school, or the smell of a distant uncle’s pipe smoke. For me, it’s shadowy issues lurking in the depths of my subconscious that suddenly bubble up for air. It just sucks that this happens at 3 a.m. - Read the rest of this entry »
One of the most effective ways to implement a project or application is to look at what others have done and, hopefully, profit from their successes and avoid their failures and mistakes.
Implementing an MDM solution is no different. Therefore, I offer you a handful of best practices that should help smooth the implementation of such a solution. I’m not going to offer a comprehensive list of best practices, but only a handful that I believe are critical and most interesting. - Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve just completed a three-article series on Regulatory Compliance. To be more specific, I’ve just completed a three-article series on “Watch-List Compliance.” Read on for more about these articles and the links to these articles. - Read the rest of this entry »
Sometimes I feel as though I am repeating myself. Sometimes I am repeating myself. But there are other times I am convinced that I am merely saying something that sounds like something I once said. Sometimes, of course, it is difficult to tell whether I am repeating myself or merely saying something that sounds like something I once said, or indeed whether these two things are tantamount to the same thing. - Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve often argued that the motivation and efforts of an IT organization should be transcendental: they must exceed the narrow limits of incumbent technologies and established architectural frameworks. Such efforts shouldn’t only be rational, they should be visionary. Sometimes, this means IT takes the reigns. - Read the rest of this entry »
I recently conducted a survey on the security market. I bring this up not because I intend to speak about security, but because a number of the issues brought out by the survey touch upon data governance, although in this case these issues were couched in terms of security governance. - Read the rest of this entry »
In his book Corporate Lifecycles, author Ichak Adizes maintains that all too often companies allow their current structures to determine their strategies. Sounds counterintuitive, right? But what can’t your company do because of weak IT investment, anemic management commitment and flawed incumbent technologies? - Read the rest of this entry »
Having spent a lot of time both programming and using data cleansing and identity resolution software, I am always intrigued by the kinds of variance that appear in semi-strucured text for named objects, such as people or products. Lately I have been considering some issues regarding one specific aspect of identity resolution: uniqueness of representation. - Read the rest of this entry »
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