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Setting the Stage for Success Part 2

by Dave McComb | Sep 28, 2020 | The Whiteboard

Envisioning Your Dream System with the Marie Kondo Method Before you begin gathering your belongings, discarding, or reorganizing, Marie Kondo asks you to envision your dream lifestyle. She insists that this is the critical first step to ensuring success with her...

A Mathematician and an Ontologist walk into a bar…

by Dave McComb | Sep 14, 2020 | gist & Open Standards

The Ontologist and Mathematician should be able to find common ground because Cantor introduced set theory into the foundation of mathematics, and W3C OWL uses set theory as a foundation for ontology language. Let’s listen in as they mash up Cantor and OWL …...

The Data-Centric Revolution: Data-Centric vs. Centralization

by Dave McComb | Sep 2, 2020 | Business Case & ROI

We just finished a conversation with a client who was justifiably proud of having centralized what had previously been a very decentralized business function (in this case, it was HR, but it could have been any of a number of functions). They had seemingly achieved...

Does your Data Spark Joy? Part 1

by Dave McComb | Aug 18, 2020 | The Whiteboard

Why is Marie Kondo so popular for home organization? Marie Kondo released her book, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying up,” almost ten years ago and has since gained much notoriety for motivating millions of people to de-clutter their homes, offices, and lives. Some...

The Data-Centric Revolution: The Sky is Falling (Let’s Make Lemonade)

by Dave McComb | Jun 17, 2020 | Business Case & ROI

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...

The Data-Centric Hospital

by Dave McComb | Apr 28, 2020 | Data-Centric Architecture

‘The Graceful Adaption of St Frances Xavier Cabrini Hospital since 1948. This post has been updated to reflect the current corona virus crisis. Joe Pine and Kim Korn authors of ‘Infinite Possibility: Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier’ say the...

Structure-First Data Modeling: The Losing Battle of Perfect Descriptions

by Dave McComb | Apr 9, 2020 | The Whiteboard

In my last article I described Meaning-First data modeling. It’s time to dig into its predecessor and antithesis, which I call Structure-First data modeling, specifically looking at how two assumptions drive our actions. Assumptions are quite useful since they...

Graph Database Superpowers: Unraveling the back-story of your favorite graph databases

by Dave McComb | Apr 6, 2020 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies

The graph database market is very exciting, as the long list of vendors continues to grow. You may not know that there are huge differences in the origin story of the dozens of graph databases on the market today. It’s this origin story that greatly impacts the...

The Data-Centric Revolution: The Role of SemOps (Part 2)

by Dave McComb | Mar 3, 2020 | Business Case & ROI

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...

DCAF 2020: Second Annual Data-Centric Architecture Forum Re-Cap

by Dave McComb | Mar 2, 2020 | News & Community

Last year, we decided to call the first annual Data Centric Architecture Conference a Forum which resulted in DCAF. It didn’t take long for attendees to start calling the event “decaf” but they were equally quick to point out that the forum was anything but decaf. We...