by Dave McComb | Dec 8, 2022 | 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...
by Dave McComb | Dec 5, 2022 | 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...
by Dave McComb | Sep 12, 2022 | 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 learn OWL...
by Dave McComb | Jun 22, 2022 | Business Case & ROI
Read more from Dave McComb in his recent article on The Data Administration Newsletter. “The data-centric approach to metrics puts the definition of the metrics in the shared data. Not in the BI tool, not in code in an API. It’s in the data, right along...
by Dave McComb | Sep 1, 2021 | Business Case & ROI
Gartner has put “Knowledge Graphs” at the peak of inflated expectations. If you are a Knowledge Graph software vendor, this might be good news. Companies will be buying knowledge graphs without knowing what they are. I’m reminded of an old cartoon of an executive...
by Dave McComb | Jun 2, 2021 | Business Case & ROI
One of the ideas we promote is elegance in the core data model in a Data-Centric enterprise. This is harder than it sounds. Look at most application-centric data models: you would think they would be simpler than the enterprise model, after all, they are a small...
