by Dave McComb | Jun 17, 2020 | The Whiteboard
Recently IDC predicted that IT spending will drop by 5% due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] Last week, Gartner went further by predicting that IT spending would drop by 8% or $300 Billion.[2] (Expect a prediction bidding war.) Both were consistent: highest hit areas...
by Dave McComb | Mar 3, 2020 | The Whiteboard
In our previous installment of this two-part series we introduced a couple of ideas. First, data governance may be more similar to DevOps than first meets the eye. Second, the rise of Knowledge Graphs, Semantics and Data-Centric development will bring with it the need...
by Dave McComb | Oct 29, 2019 | The Whiteboard
I’m at a graph conference. The general sense is that property graphs are much easier to get started with than Knowledge Graphs. I wanted to explore why that is, and whether it is a good thing. It’s a bit of a puzzle to us, we’ve been using RDF and the Semantic Web...
by Dave McComb | Sep 4, 2019 | The Whiteboard
As I write this, I can almost hear you wail “No, no, we don’t have too much metadata, we don’t have nearly enough! We have several projects in flight to expand our use of metadata.” Sorry, I’m going to have to disagree with you there. You are on a fool’s errand that...
