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The Data-Centric Revolution

by Dave McComb | Sep 1, 2015 | Business Case & ROI

This is the first of a regular series of columns from Dave McComb. Dave’s column, The Data-Centric Revolution, will appear every quarter. Please join TDAN.com in welcoming Dave to these pages and stop by often to see what he has to say. We are in the early stages of...

Human Scale Software Architecture

by Dave McComb | Aug 7, 2015 | Data-Centric Architecture

In the physical built world there is the concept of “human scale” architecture, in other words, architecture that has been designed explicitly with the needs and constraints of humans in mind: humans that are typically between a few feet and 7 ft. tall and...

White Paper: What is a Market?

by Dave McComb | Jun 25, 2015 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies, White Papers

The term “market” is a common term in the business industry. We talk about the automotive market, the produce market, the disk drive market, etc. And yet, what do we really mean when we use that term? It is an instructive question because very often CRM (Customer...

White Paper: How long should your URIs be?

by Dave McComb | Jun 6, 2015 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies

This applies to URIs that a system needs to generate when it finds it needs to mint a new resource. I’ve been thinking a lot about automated URI assignment lately. In particular the scheme we’ve been using (relying on the database to maintain a “next...

White Paper: Ontologies and Application

by Dave McComb | Jun 5, 2015 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies

Outlining three and a half ways that applications can have their schemas derived from enterprise ontologies. Many people (ok, a few people) have asked us: “what is the relationship between an ontology and an application?” We usually say, “That’s an excellent question”...

White Paper: Six Axes of Decoupling

by Dave McComb | Jun 5, 2015 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies, White Papers

Loose coupling has been a Holy Grail for systems developers for generations. The virtues of loose coupling have been widely lauded, yet there has been little description about what is needed to achieve loose coupling. In this paper we describe our observations from...

White Paper: Veracity

by Dave McComb | Jun 5, 2015 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies

Encarta defines veracity as “the truth, accuracy or precision of something” and that seems like a pretty good place to start. Our systems don’t model uncertainty very well, and yet that is exactly what we deal with on a day-to-day basis. This paper examines one aspect...

White Paper: International Conference on Service Oriented Computing

by Dave McComb | Jun 5, 2015 | News & Community

In this write up I’ll try to capture the tone of the conference, what seemed to be important and what some of the more interesting presentations were. This was the first ever Conference on Service Oriented Computing. In some ways it was reminiscent of the first...

White Paper: How Service Oriented Architecture is Changing the Balance of Power Between Information Systems Line and Staff

by Dave McComb | Jun 5, 2015 | Data-Centric Architecture

As service oriented architecture (SOA) begins to become widely adopted through organizations, there will be major dislocations in the balance of power and control within IS organizations. As service oriented architecture (SOA) begins to become widely adopted through...

White Paper: Shedding Light on the “Shared Services” Conversation

by Dave McComb | Jun 2, 2015 | Data-Centric Architecture

Although there are at least seven levels of granularity to “shared services,” little time has been spent to categorize these. My observation is that although there are at least seven levels of granularity to “shared services,” little time has been spent to categorize...