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Data Governance and the IT Agenda

There can be little doubt that in the ever more technology-saturated, interconnected 21st Century, IT departments play a vital role in the gathering and management of business data. Gone are the days when IT technicians were only there to install … Continue reading

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Subjects, concepts and scenarios – More on business data modelling

As I’ve previously mentioned, in order to achieve the scope and breadth we need in a business data model, we produce a conceptual model of anything up to 100 concepts, grouped into fairly generic ‘subject areas’.  So how do we … Continue reading

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That’s a pretty data model – what does it do?

In my previous post, I asked what was in a model, so before I dive deeply into discussing how we do business-level modelling, a cautionary tale: I once produced an elegant conceptual model for a complex business.  The structure managed … Continue reading

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Data governance – so what’s in a model?

As this is my first post on the Evaxyx blog, I thought I’d kick off with a subject close to my heart: data modelling.  I’ve been involved with data and information in various ways since the early 1990s, and believe … Continue reading

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