by Dave McComb | Feb 28, 2018 | The Whiteboard
If someone has a $100 million project, the last thing that would occur to them would be to launch a second project in parallel using different methods to see which method works better. That would seem to be insane, almost asking for the price to be doubled. Besides,...
by Dave McComb | Feb 22, 2018 | The Whiteboard
Software Wasteland: Know what’s causing application development waste so you can turn the tide. Software Wasteland is the book your Systems Integrator and your Application Software vendor don’t want you to read. Enterprise IT (Information Technology) is a...
by Dave McComb | Dec 27, 2017 | The Whiteboard
Once you have your ontology, you want to put it to use. We will describe a common scenario where data is extracted from various sources including relational databases. That data is then used in conjunction with an application instead of a traditional relational...
by Dave McComb | Dec 6, 2017 | Semantics and Ontology
Complexity Drives Cost in Information Systems A system with twice the number of lines of code will typically cost more than twice as much to build and maintain. There is no economy of scale in enterprise applications. There is dis economy of scale. In...
by Dave McComb | Sep 6, 2017 | Semantics and Ontology
We have taken the position that a core model is an essential part of your data-centric architecture. In this article, we will review what a core model is, how to go about building one, and how to apply it both to analytics as well as new application development. What...
by Michael Uschold | Jul 12, 2017 | The Whiteboard
Paving Cow Paths Numerous modern day streets in downtown Boston defy logic – until you realize that the city fathers literally paved over the transit system created and used by cows.* This gave the immediate benefit of getting places faster, while losing out on...
by Dave McComb | Jun 7, 2017 | Semantics and Ontology
There is a movement afoot. I’m seeing it all around me. Let me outline some of the early outposts. Data-Centric Manifesto We put out the data-centric manifesto on datacentricmanifesto.org over two years ago now. I continue to be impressed with the depth of thought...
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...
