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2024
- Generative AI and Enterprise Java Developers - February 2024
- Data Quality and Artificial Intelligence
The Alliance for Business Success - January 2024
2023
- Brief History of Data Engineering - December 2023
- Challenges of Migrating Your Data Warehouse to The Cloud - November 2023
- Governance of Metadata and Taxonomies - October 2023
- Using Data and AI To Drive a Better User Experience - September 2023
- Data Governance: Deliver fast and deliver often - July 2023
- Deduplicate your Data for Better Governance - June 2023
- Avoid “Scope Creep”! - May 2023
- Data Observability – What Is It and Why Should You Care? - April 2023
- A glimmer of hope - March 2023
- Transforming the organization through data and analytics – the role of culture and OCM - February 2023
2022
- Solution or Illusion? Achieving Better Outcomes With Pre-Project Problem Analysis - December 2022
- Data Governance: The Data Discipline at the hub of Data Management - November 2022
- Governing Data across a Distributed Data Estate - October 2022
- The Benefits and Habits of a Data Visualisation Design Process - September 2022
- Taxonomy Uses - July 2022
- Data Engineering Technology Tree - June 2022
- Look Before You Leap: Pre-Project Problem Analysis: A Thin Slice Of The “Why, What & How” - May 2022
- Implementing Data Fabric, Mesh, and Lakehouse - April 2022
- AI Fundamentals: The Evolution of AI in Drone Systems – 2nd part - March 2022
- AI Fundamentals: The Evolution of AI in Drone Systems - February 2022
- What It Looks Like When a Team Is Missing - January 2022
2021
- What It Looks Like When a Team Is Missing - December 2021
- Data Science Workbenches and Machine Learning Automation - November 2021
- Now-Data Fabric, Mesh, and a Lakehouse - October 2021
- Exploratory Data Analisys: using visuals to see your data - September 2021
- Starting a Taxonomy - July 2021
- What’s the Point of Business Events? - June 2021
- Successfully launching the office of the chief data officer- and ensuring its sustained success - May 2021
- The Dilemma of Data Digestion - April 2021
- Metadata and Taxonomies - March 2021
- Understanding Enterprise Architecture Domains - February 2021
- Understanding Enterprise Architecture Domains - January 2021
2020
- Business Intelligence: From Theory to Reality (Part II) - December 2020
- Digital Transformation in an Age of Pandemic - December 2020
- Industrialising Data and AI for The Real-time Enterprise - November 2020
- A recipe for expertise in Data Visualisation - October 2020
- Big Data and Analytics in the COVID-19 Era - September 2020
- How Will It Work? The Future How Viewpoint. - July 2020
- DevOps for Data and Data Science – The Move Towards Always-On AI in Business - June 2020
- AI Requires Data Perfection - May 2020
- Promises and Challenges of Enterprise IT - April 2020
- Architecture for Digital Transformation - March 2020
- Business Analysis Viewpoints - February 2020
- Business Analysis Viewpoints - January 2020
2019
- Are Design Sprints the Next Silver Bullet? - December 2019
- The Importance of Data Architecture In A Data Driven Enterprise - November 2019
- Machine Learning for the Enterprise - October 2019
- Advanced Portfolio Management: Goals-Driven Investment in Change - September 2019
- The funnel and the marbles. A tale of team productivity - August 2019
- The funnel and the marbles. A tale of team productivity - July 2019
- From Data Warehouse to Digital Business - June 2019
- From Analytical Silos To An Integrated Analytical Ecosystem - May 2019
- Accelerating Innovation in the Enterprise - April 2019
- Taxonomies in Support of Search - March 2019
- Developing a Bi-Modal Logical Data Warehouse Architecture Using Data Virtualization - February 2019
- Choosing An Enterprise Information Catalog - January 2019
2018
- Choosing An Enterprise Information Catalog - December 2018
- Machine Learning for the Enterprise - November 2018
- Agile in retrospect: this year’s trends and challenges in 2018 – 2° Part - October 2018
- Agile in retrospect: this year’s trends and challenges in 2018 - September 2018
- The product owner: the single-person bottleneck - August 2018
- The product owner: the single-person bottleneck - July 2018
- Key considerations for the success of the Office of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) - June 2018
- Fiat or Ferrari – which will your digital business need? - May 2018
- Conquering Data Complexity – Using Smart Data Management - April 2018
- Promises and Challenges of Modern Enterprise Architecture - March 2018
- Data, BI And Analytics – Lifeblood to Survival of the Fittest - February 2018
- Data, BI And Analytics – Lifeblood to Survival of the Fittest - January 2018
2017
- Is the “Data Asset” really different? - December 2017
- Business Analysis: Turning Gloop into Concrete - November 2017
- Data, BI And Analytics – Lifeblood to Survival of the Fittest - October 2017
- Is the “Data Asset” really different? - September 2017
- When to get rid of your monoliths and when not - August 2017
- When to get rid of your monoliths and when not - July 2017
- Business Analysis: Turning Gloop into Concrete - June 2017
- All aboard the Digital Business! Oncoming IoT and AI - May 2017
- Accelerating Data Science Using Machine Learning Automation - April 2017
- The Software-Defined Enterprise Microservices, Modern Architecture and Business Agility - March 2017
- Data Drives Everything in the Algorithmic Business of the Future - February 2017
- Data Drives Everything in the Algorithmic Business of the Future - January 2017
2016
- The user story considered harmful - December 2016
- The five traits of a successful digital leader - November 2016
- Data Drives Everything in the Algorithmic Business of the Future - October 2016
- The Challenge Of Big Data - September 2016
- What does “Value” mean to a Business Analyst? - August 2016
- What does “Value” mean to a Business Analyst? - July 2016
- Digital Strategy - June 2016
- Establishing A Foundation For The Data Driven Enterprise - May 2016
- Services Architecture for the Modern Enterprise - April 2016
- Microservices. The good, the bad and the ugly – 2° Part - March 2016
- Microservices. The good, the bad and the ugly – 1° Part - February 2016
- Microservices. The good, the bad and the ugly – 1° Part - January 2016
2015
- Managing Information Technology - December 2015
- Agile Project Management - November 2015
- Promise and Challenge of Enterprise IoT - October 2015
- Digital Disruption: The Forces of Data Driven Smart Apps - September 2015
- Is Project Manager a Job, or a Profession? - August 2015
- Is Project Manager a Job, or a Profession? - July 2015
- Self-Service Data Integration – Improved Productivity or Total Chaos? - June 2015
- Is Project Manager a Job, or a Profession? - May 2015
- Leveraging Big Data For Mobile Solutions - April 2015
- The Requirements Food Chain - March 2015
- How to Become a Data-Centric Company - February 2015
- How to Become a Data-Centric Company - January 2015
2014
- How to Become a Data-Centric Company – 1° Part - December 2014
- Big Data and The Extended Analytical Ecosystem - November 2014
- Origin of Agility - October 2014
- Is Your Architecture Successful? - September 2014
- Is NoSQL Turning Into SQL? - August 2014
- Is NoSQL Turning Into SQL? - July 2014
- Business Analysis with Business Rules: It’s All About the Business - June 2014
- Large-Scale Scrum: Change Implications - May 2014
- Use Architecture to Reduce Technical Debt - April 2014
- Use Architecture to Reduce Technical Debt - March 2014
- Conversations with Martians - February 2014
- Conversations with Martians - January 2014
2013
- Next Generation Project Management – Part I Leading Strategic Projects and Having Fun - December 2013
- Reinventing Business Intelligence… - October 2013
- Searching for value in the tomato garden - August 2013
- Big Data Is Changing the Database Server Market - July 2013
- Developments in big data and other technology over the past few years suggest a growing convergence of business and IT and a fundamental change in the way we manage and use information. - June 2013
- Ten Steps to Data Quality - May 2013
- Why You Really, Truly Don’t Want a Private Cloud - April 2013
- Leonardo was Right! - March 2013
- Delivering a Great Mobile User Experience - February 2013
- Are you doing Architecture? - January 2013
2012
- Data Virtualization for Agile Business Intelligence Systems - December 2012
- Models or natural language – which is best for requirements? - October 2012
- An Agile Approach to Enterprise Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence - September 2012
- Business Intelligence: 2012 to 2015 - August 2012
- Regression Testing in Large, Complex and Undocumented Legacy Systems - June 2012
- Consumerization, Clouds, and Consequences - May 2012
- How’s Business? Ask Your Dashboard - April 2012
- EXTREME SCOPING™ Agile DW/BI Project Team Dynamics - February 2012
- What Is Big Data and Why Do We Need It? - January 2012
2011
- What Is Big Data and Why Do We Need It? - December 2011
- Business Capabilities – The Rosetta Stone of Business / IT Alignment - November 2011
- Leveraging Taxonomies to Improve Findability - October 2011
- Is an Enterprise Data Warehouse Still Required for Business Intelligence? - August 2011
- Reinventing Business Intelligence… - June 2011
- The Performance Dashboard: The New Face of Business Intelligence - May 2011
- User Acceptance Testing Patterns and Processes - March 2011
- The Limits of Running IT Like a Business - February 2011
2010
- The Building Blocks of the Cloud - December 2010
- Paying attention to metadata in DW2.0 - November 2010
- Open Source Business Intelligence: low cost, high value? - October 2010
- Simplicity and Requirements - September 2010
- Textual Analytics: Business Intelligence from a Textual Foundation - July 2010
- Extreme Scoping™: An Agile Approach to Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence - June 2010
- From Business Intelligence to Enterprise IT Architecture - April 2010
- Making Complex Web Navigation a Usable Experience - March 2010
- Let The Business Drive IT Strategy - February 2010
2009
- Database Technology for the Web: The MapReduce Debate (second part) - December 2009
- Database Technology for the Web: The MapReduce Debate - November 2009
- Seven Keys to Effective Performance Measurement - October 2009
- Ten Things an Architect Does to Add Value - September 2009
- Developing Secure Applications - August 2009
- The ECM Landscape in 2008 - June 2009
- Information Workers: Who Are They? - May 2009
- Extreme scoping: What iterative development really means - May 2009
- Information Quality & Management Transformation - April 2009
- Making the Case for Business Taxonomy - March 2009
- Using Rich Internet Applications in Business Intelligence - February 2009
2008
- Enterprise Search - December 2008
- The Power of Abstraction - November 2008
- The Road To Pervasive BI - October 2008
- A Strategy for Testing SOA - September 2008
- The Need for Easier and Lower-Cost Business Intelligence - August 2008
- Killer Web Content - June 2008
- IQ AND DATA WAREHOUSING: TRENDS AND BEST PRACTICES - April 2008
- What is Enterprise Content Management? - March 2008
- The Birth of Web 3.0 - February 2008
2007
- Documentation: The Murder Book - December 2007
- The Impact of Web 2.0 on Business Portals - November 2007
- Winning IS Management Practices: Practice 1 – IS Marketing - October 2007
- Web 2.0 - September 2007
- Customer focus is the secret to web success - August 2007
- A Process-Centric Approach to Business Intelligence - July 2007
- Integrating Master Data Management and BI (part II) - May 2007
- Integrating Master Data Management and BI (part I) - April 2007
- The Project Manager as a Nanny - March 2007
- Customer focus is the secret to Web success - February 2007
2006
- A Personal View: The Business User Workspace - December 2006
- Introducing the Business Taxonomy - November 2006
- Managed Meta Data Environment (MME): A Complete Walkthrough (II Part) - October 2006
- Managed Meta Data Environment (MME): A Complete Walkthrough (Part I) - September 2006
- Leveraging Enterprise Applications with Web 2.0 - August 2006
- Improving IT Performance Using the Balanced Scorecard - June 2006
- How Service Oriented Architectures Enable Business Process Fusion (part II) - May 2006
- How’s Business? Ask Your Dashboard - April 2006
- How Service Oriented Architectures Enable Business Process Fusion (part I) - April 2006
- Stakeholders, Goals, Scope: The Foundation for Requirements and Business Models - March 2006
- Prove the value of your web content with numbers - February 2006
2005
- The Back-end of IT Strategic Planning - December 2005
- Requirements Auditing: Is the Specification Fit For its Purpose? (part II) - November 2005
- Requirements Auditing: Is the Specification Fit For its Purpose (part I) - October 2005
- The Information Management Process - September 2005
- Requirements are a Project Management Tool - August 2005
- Killer web content is the future - June 2005
- Searching for value in the tomato garden - May 2005
- Activity-Based Costing for IT - April 2005
- A Roadmap to Intelligent Business (part II) - March 2005
- A Roadmap to Intelligent Business (part I) - January 2005
2004
- The Operational Data Store: Hammering Away - December 2004
- The Business-Accessible Data Warehouse - November 2004
- Ten Keys to a Successful Balanced Scorecard - October 2004
- Content management: time to put content first - September 2004
- Highly Available Web Application Design - August 2004
- Will 2004 Be the Year We Abandon HTML? - June 2004
- Is EII Virtual Data Warehousing Revisited? - May 2004
- Creating the CIO’s Dashboard of Performance Measures - April 2004
- Stakeholders, Goals, Scope: The Foundation for Requirements and Business Models - March 2004
- Conquering CPM and BI Integration – Making It Happen - January 2004
2003
- Using Function Point Analysis for an Object Oriented Methodology - December 2003
- The evolution of the Enterprise Portal - October 2003
- Business Intelligence: From Theory to Reality (Part I) - July 2003
- Corporate and E-Business Portals: The Next Generation Workplace - June 2003
- Top 10 Questions to Ask/Mistakes to Avoid When Building a Meta Data Repository (Part II) - April 2003
- Top 10 Questions to Ask/Mistakes to Avoid When Building a Meta Data Repository (Part I) - March 2003
- Using Patterns to Capture Design Experience - February 2003
- Building the Intelligent Business - January 2003
2002
- .NET or J2EE – Choosing the Right Web Services Framework - December 2002
- Designing Successful Mobile Applications - November 2002
- Project Sociology: Identifying and Involving the Stakeholders - September 2002
- Integrating Business Intelligence into the Enterprise (Part II) - August 2002
- Integrating Business Intelligence into the Enterprise (Part I) - June 2002
- The Evolution of the e-Business Portal (Part II) - May 2002
- The Evolution of the e-Business Portal (Part I) - April 2002
- The WebEAI Advisor: Web Services, XML and the Enterprise - March 2002
- Data Mining: The Key to Profitable Customer Relationship Management - February 2002