Bad Data Structures Prevent Growth
Postal addresses present data database developers with a constant challenge. Traditional approaches fail, either because they hard code in inadequate structures, or they provide the chaos of no...
View ArticleA Data Quality Profession?
Do We Need a Data Quality Profession? In a recent article on Data Quality Arkady Maydanchik was suggesting that a key solution to the current data quality issues that plague business everywhere is the...
View ArticleBusiness Modelling Architecture
All good analysis and modelling is achieved by starting in the right place, and that place is with the core activities of the enterprise - the Business Functions. If you have not started in the right...
View ArticleThere's No Such Thing as a Customer!
"Customer" is one of the Data Enitities that lies at the heart of most MDM practices in enterprises around the world and it is not in fact a Data Entity at all! This situation has arisen because far...
View ArticleThere Are No Such Things as Data Rules!
This may come as a surprise to many involved in Data Quality but, wait for it, there are no such things as data rules! By looking at data you can never deduce or define a rule that dictates that one...
View ArticleData Quality – One Version of the Truth?
The concept of "one version of the truth" is possibly the most widely discussed (and disputed) topics in Data Quality. Some say that it can never exist, others, that it must always exist or there is no...
View ArticleIf I Wanted to Get to Dublin I Wouldn’t Start from Here: Part 1
It seems that most Master Data Management (MDM) projects are starting in the wrong place and heading in the wrong direction! They fail to build and use that essential and most powerful of MDM tools,...
View ArticleThe Phantom Entities of Customer and Supplier
It is amazing how much is spoken and written about Customer and Supplier, especially as they do not exist - they are Phantom Entities! Read more at There's No Such Thing as Customer. Recently, in a...
View ArticleAddress Universal Modelling Tool
Address Modelling Magic The different structures of addresses in different countries and different languages can seem to be an insurmountable obstacle when trying to bring consistency of address...
View ArticleEnterprise Architecture or Business Architecture?
On on-going discussion in Linkedin and other forums (or should that be ‘fora’?) is the difference between ‘Enterprise Architecture’ and ‘Business Architecture’. In a rational world they would both be...
View ArticleWhat’s the Matter with ‘Meta’?
Misuse is the matter with ‘Meta’. ‘Meta Data’ is a term that is beginning to appear and be misused in blogs and articles on Data Quality. Although Meta Data does have a role to play in Data Quality, it...
View Article160 Pragmatic, High Quality Definitions for Business and Data Analysts
Quality Practice Begins with Quality Definitions Sadly, in the worlds of business and data analysis and modeling good definitions are hard to find, bad definitions abound and misunderstanding and...
View ArticleIMM Audience Now in 5,000 Towns & Cities in 181 Countries
IMM the Integrated Modeling Method can truly be said to be global with an audience in nearly every country in the world, as shown by the map below from our website Google analytics. You can help us to...
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