DataFlux

I wanted to spend a few days considering my experience at the DataFlux User’s event last week. I and Evan Levy presented keynote talks; mine was largely on enterprise information management (and how data governance and data quality hold it together), and Evan spoke about master data management. - Read the rest of this entry »

Last week’s DataFlux User Event was yet another well-produced, high-energy, aha-moment fun-fest. Usually when you go to a vendor conference the fun doesn’t really start until the welcome dinner, or on the last day when you buy your nephew a plushy key ring in the hotel gift shop while you’re waiting for the airport shuttle. - Read the rest of this entry »

I am so sorry that I couldn’t make it to the Dataflux Users Event for 2007, in Orlando. I had a couple of medical issues to handle, and now I feel GREAT! BUT, I promise to be there next year with more information to share with all of you. Meanwhile, while I was off work for a couple of days, our project went into production. We are so lucky that one of our loyal customers is first to use the new system. Let me tell you, they are finding lots of issues. Like: - Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve written a lot about the topic of governance, data and otherwise. But my dog Colby the Coonhound needs her own set of policies and so we, her owners, have been forced to design a rigorous approach and arrive at a series of decision rights about the treatment, transport, and, uh, care and feeding of Colby. - Read the rest of this entry »

I will be at the DataFlux Users Event - I am honored to have been asked to present the keynote talk, which will focus on the foundations of Enterprise Information Management. For the past few months, I have been doing a lot of thinking about how three areas of business operation coincide based on the use of information. The first is considering the horizontal structure of enterprise applications. We are conditioned to look at application development in association with achieving specific goals related to defined tasks - process an order, arrange for product shipping, generate a policy, etc. But although businesses are often configured and aligned along siloed vertical operations, the actual business processes line up horizontally. - Read the rest of this entry »

I’m writing this from a cottage in the hills above Santa Barbara, a location that ratchets up my inherent existentialism. This ticks off my mate, who simply wants to have some quality time away from the office with me, the dogs, his laptop, the remote, (yes, on vacation the laptop and the TV burn brightly in unison), and a mega-bag of Pepper Jack Doritos. - Read the rest of this entry »