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The Data-Centric Revolution: Evolution of Metrics in a Data-Centric Enterprise

by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI

A six-step progression for enterprise metrics, from measuring and cleaning up through formal semantics, calibration, action, and root cause to better metrics, worked through with aging accounts receivable.

The Case for Enterprise Ontology

by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI

Three reasons to bring all of an enterprise’s data into a single core: economy, use cases that cross domains, and the serendipity of connections nobody planned for.

The Data-Centric Revolution: Who Doesn’t Need Data-Centric?

by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI

Four years after naming target and avoid markets for data-centric work, what Semantic Arts got right and wrong, and why hotel and restaurant chains turned out not to need data-centric at all.

The Data-Centric Revolution: Best Practices and Schools of Ontology Design

by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI

This article originally appeared at The Data-Centric Revolution: Best Practices and Schools of Ontology Design – TDAN.com. Subscribe to TDAN directly for this and other great content! I was recently asked to present “Enterprise Ontology Design and Implementation Best Practices” […]

How to Take Back 40-60% of Your IT Spend by Fixing Your Data

by Semantic Arts | Business Case & ROI

Creating a semantic graph foundation helps your organization become data-driven while significantly reducing IT spend Organizations that quickly adapt to changing market conditions have a competitive advantage over their peers. Achieving this advantage is dependent on their ability to capture, […]

The Data-Centric Revolution: “RDF is Too Hard”

by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI

This article originally appeared at The Data-Centric Revolution: “RDF is Too Hard”—TDAN.com. Subscribe to The Data Administration Newsletter for this and other great content! By Dave McComb We hear this a lot. We hear it from very smart people. Just […]

Data-Centric Revolution: Is Knowledge Ontology the Missing Link?

by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI

You would think that after knocking around in semantics and knowledge graphs for over two decades I’d have had a pretty good idea about Knowledge Management, but it turns out I didn’t. I think in the rare event the term […]

The Data-Centric Revolution: Zero Copy Integration

by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI

I love the term “Zero Copy Integration.” I didn’t come up with it, it was the Data Collaboration Alliance that came up with that one. The Data Collaboration Alliance is a Canadian based advocacy group promoting localized control of data […]

The Data-Centric Revolution: Detour/Shortcut to FAIR

by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI

The FAIR principles for data sets are gaining traction, especially in the pharmaceutical industry in Europe. FAIR stands for: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. In a world of exponential data growth and ever-increasing silo-ization, the FAIR principles are needed more […]

The Data-Centric Revolution: An Interview with Dave McComb

by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI

Are today’s economics of software projects and support inevitable? No. They are a product of the fact that the industry has collectively chosen the application-centric route to implementing new functionality. When every business problem calls for a new application and […]

The Data-Centric Revolution: OWL as a Discipline

by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI

Many developers pooh-pooh OWL (the dyslexic acronym for the Web Ontology Language). Many decry it as “too hard,” which seems bizarre, given that most developers I know pride themselves on their cleverness (and, as anyone who takes the time to […]

The Data-Centric Revolution: Headless BI and the Metrics Layer

by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI

Occasionally, I pick up on trends in my peripheral vision. These are trends that aren’t in the center of my professional field of view, but are out there on the edges. Obviously, these trends are in the center of someone’s […]