Model Citizen: Should Data Discovery Tools include modeling functionality?
Data models: Data Management 101 In my years as a consultant implementing data management solutions, my first question to a client would be … Can I see the data model? I have long felt that gaining a better understanding of an organization’s data landscape involves to primary artifacts; a data model and a data profile. [...]
Data Discovery: a path to better ETL development
In my last post I made the statement that one of the uses for data discovery was to produce better ETL design. I wanted to backup that statement with a follow up post on why I feel this way, some supporting research and how to go about achieving this enhanced design. Why data discovery leads [...]
The many uses of data discovery
Bloor research defines data discovery as … the discovery of relationships between data elements, regardless of where the data is stored. If you expand your mind beyond the conventional relational database meaning of relationships, I agree with this definition. Relationships in this context, or rather the context I chose to apply, means much more than [...]
When one door closes …
The famous saying is that when one door closes, a window opens. Such is the case with my career in data management. I have hung up my consulting cleats and have donned the headset of product management. I will be joining the world class team at Informatica to take the Data Explorer product to the [...]
Justin Bieber abuses Twitter but proves how similar phone numbers are
Look, I can’t believe I have managed to work Justin Bieber into a data management blog, but I have. When Bieber tweeted 9 digits of his phone number and asked his twitter followers to guess the 10th digit and call him, he set two unsuspecting victims phones on fire. He also proved how similar phone [...]