by Dave McComb | Feb 27, 2025 | Case Study
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 become obsolete. This included pretty much the whole stack: DEC...
by Dave McComb | Jun 29, 2023 | Business Case & ROI
“You would think that after knocking around in semantics and knowledge graphs for over two decades I’d have had a pretty good idea about Knowledge Management, but it turns out I didn’t. I think in the rare event the term came up I internally conflated it with...
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 | 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...
