by Dave McComb | Feb 27, 2025 | Data-Centric Architecture
World Minerals: ERP Conversion Feasibility World Minerals is the largest producer of diatomaceous earth and a major producer of several other industrial materials. The infrastructure upon which their internally developed ERP system was based had...
by Dave McComb | Mar 8, 2023 | 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 along with federated access....
by Dave McComb | Nov 10, 2022 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
The truth is that despite the outsider’s perception that the world of technology just keeps getting better, faster and less expensive, over 70% of enterprise digital transformations fail to achieve their objectives (McKinsey, 2019). Most commentary on the subject...
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 | Mar 8, 2022 | Data-Centric Architecture
I’m reading the book Kill it with Fire by Marianne Bellotti. It is a delightful book. Plenty of pragmatic advice, both on the architectural side (how to think through whether and when to break up that monolith) and the organizational side (how to get and maintain...
