by Dave McComb | May 25, 2017 | The Whiteboard
In the last two months I’ve heard at least 6 financial institutions declare that they intended to become “A Semantic Bank.” We still haven’t seen even the slightest glimmer as to what any of them mean by that. Allow me to step into that breach. What follows is...
by Dave McComb | Mar 1, 2017 | Semantics and Ontology
Integration Debt is a Form of Technical Debt As with so many things, we owe the coining of the metaphor “Technical Debt” to Ward Cunningham and the agile community. It is the confluence of several interesting conclusions the community has come to. The first was that...
by Dave McComb | Jan 20, 2017 | The Whiteboard
I was just reading through what some folks have written on the Data-Centric Manifesto web site. Thought I’d capture some of the more poignant: “I believe [Linked] Data Centric approach is the way of the future. I am committing my company to assisting...
by Dave McComb | Dec 28, 2016 | The Whiteboard
Dave McComb discusses data lakes, schema, and data-centricity in his latest post on the Data Centric Revolution for The Data Administration Newsletter. Here’s a brief excerpt to pique your interest: “I think it is safe to say that there will be declared...
by Dave McComb | Sep 21, 2016 | Semantics and Ontology
In this column, I am making the case for Data Centric architectures for enterprises. There is a huge economic advantage to converting to the data-centric approach, but curiously few companies are making the transition. One reason may be the confusion of Data Centric...
