You may have noticed the words “Data Governance” cropping up every now and then in articles about BI, and particularly articles about MDM. But what is it? And Who cares? We have gone through decade after decade of IT without anyone entertaining the notion that data should be governed in some way, never mind what [...]

In a word – Yes. But it might not appear that way yet. So let me play the angel’s advocate and see where the logic takes us. The first point to make is that cloud computing is still young, in fact it’s very young – just out of kindergarten. So there are many CIO and [...]

On the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of this month I had the honor of speaking at the Enterprise and Cloud Computing Conference held in Rome.  I was speaking with several industry heavy hitters in the database and data integration space, including Colin White and Mike Ferguson, as well as cloud computing development gurus, including Ed [...]

Cloud, Cloud, Cloud. As many posts in this blog and countless others mention, Cloud is a very new technology with lots of potential and applications. Both new technologies and existing technologies are making their way into the freshly constructed world of cloud computing. I find that one of the first discussions I may have with [...]