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Data Quality – Don’t Fix It If It Ain’t Broke
What is broke? If I drive a pickup truck around that has a small, unobtrusive crack in the windshield and a few dings in the paint, it will still pull a boat and haul a bunch of lumber from Home Depot. Is the pickup broke if it still meets my needs? So, when is data […]
Big Data Changes Everything – Has Your Governance Changed?
A few years ago, Big Data/Hadoop systems were generally a side project for either storing bulk data or for analytics. But now as companies have pursued a data unification strategy, leveraging the Next Generation Data Architecture, Big Data and Hadoop systems are becoming a strategic necessity in the modern enterprise. Big Data and Hadoop are technologies […]
The New Data Integration Paradigm
Data integration has changed. The old way of extracting data, moving it to a new server, transforming it, and then loading into a new system for reporting and analytics is now looking quite arcane. It’s expensive, time consuming, and does not scale to handle the volumes we are now seeing in the digitally transformed enterprise. We […]
Bootstrapping Data Governance – Part I
A lot has been said and written about Data Governance (DG) and the importance of having one. However it is still a mystery for many companies to create an effective DG. Based on our experience majority of the companies in their early stages of DG fall into one of these areas: Had too many false […]
Ignore the Future State and derive Business Value now
At last weeks Texas EnterpriseArchitecture Summit in Austin, Kirk Da Costa, Assistant VP of Enterprise and Solution Architecture at PNC Financial Services discussed his views on optimizing business value from shared Technology platforms and projects. Key points include: taking a different perspective focusing our limited effort and resources on achieving optimal real world results Focus on realizing […]
Marketecting the enterprise?
At the Association of Enterprise Architecture Summit in Austin, Texas last week, John Zachman was the speaker of honor. For those unfamiliar with his work he is the leading proponent of Enterprise Architecture, and I don’t mean that in the marketing sense where all companies are the leading in “blah blah blah”. As a career […]
Infusing Enterprise Architecture Into Your Bank’s Strategy
It’s not unheard of, that a CTO might have to grill some staff at audit-time, and that line of questioning to take some oddly specific turns. “Why is our hosting provider billing us for this server ORCL-001A? What’s it doing here? Weren’t all our backend systems moved to SQL Server? Weren’t all these virtualized?” Whether […]