Solving the MDM Problem is Not Easy.
Master Data Management is inherently challenging. Technology alone will not solve the problem – most of the root causes issues are process…
DQ-View: Is Data Quality the Sun?
Data Quality (DQ) View is an OCDQ regular segment. Each DQ-View is a brief video discussion of a data quality…
Prototyping Cloud Analytic Applications
Cloud computing is changing the way that companies build and deploy their analytic solutions. With cloud computing, computing is available…
Is your data complete and accurate, but useless to your business?
Ensuring that complete and accurate data is being used to make critical daily business decisions is perhaps the primary reason…
Ask.com Tries Different Question-Answering
One of the common (and mistaken) assumptions about IBM's Jeopardy-playing computer, Watson, is that it has a database of answers…
David Warren (1925-2010) – Do Companies Need his “Black Box”?
David Warren, the inventor of the prototype of the airplane flight recorder “black box”, passed away in July, 2010. An…
Performance Measurement Gap
Are you measuring the right things in your business? I'm sure you have lots of data being generated by dozens…
John Q. Public, Customer Service, and Information Management
I recently had some customer service issues with a few telecommunication companies. When calling the 800 numbers and speaking with…