by Dave McComb | Jul 1, 2016 | The Whiteboard
At Semantic Arts, we recently decided to upgrade our internal system to turn something that was a not temporal (our billing rates) into something that was. Normally, that would be a pretty big change. As it turned out, it was pretty straightforward and could be done,...
by Dave McComb | Jun 29, 2016 | The Whiteboard
We have just launched our “FIBO Quick start” offering. If you are in the financial industry you likely have heard about the Financial Industry Business Ontology, which has been championed by the EDM Council, a consortium of virtually the entire...
by Dave McComb | Jun 1, 2016 | Semantics and Ontology
In the previous installment (The Data Centric Revolution: The Evolution of the Data Centric Revolution Part One), we looked at some of the early trends in application development that foreshadowed the data centric revolution, including punched cards, magnetic tape,...
by Dave McComb | Mar 15, 2016 | The Whiteboard
Most large organizations have a lot of data and very little useful information. The reason being, every time they encounter a problem, they build (or more often buy) another computer application system. Each application has its own completely arbitrary data model...