The erwin, Inc. premiere of erwin DG at the DATAVERSITY® Data Architecture Summit 2017 marks a new approach to tackling the practice of discovering, understanding, governing and socializing data. That strategy, dubbed Data Governance 2.0, puts the focus on making Data Governance everyone’s business, in order to fully leverage data for strategic advantage and remove […]
Agenda Announced for 22nd Annual Enterprise Data World Conference
November 8, 2017 – DATAVERSITY Education, LLC and DAMA International announced the agenda and opened registration today for the 22nd Annual Enterprise Data World Conference (EDW). The event will take place April 22-27, 2018 at the Sheraton Hotel & Marina in San Diego, CA. For details about the program, speakers, and registration options, visit enterprisedataworld.com. […]
Knowledge Maps – Structure Versus Meaning
Click to learn more about author John Singer. We are at an inflection point in the process of designing and building computerized systems. Let’s be honest – even with the explosion of new data technologies we are still building the same unit record processing systems from the 60’s, although with a bit more sophistication than an […]
My Last Blog: Data Models, SQL, UML, and Database Design
Click to learn more about author Michael Blaha. This will be the last blog I write for DATAVERSITY® as I am dealing with health issues. I have cancer but am fortunate to be receiving excellent medical care. With treatment my prognosis is good, but this affects my free time. Hence this will be my last […]
Oct 26 LDM Webinar: Agile & Data Modeling – How Can They Work Together?
DATE: October 26, 2017, This webinar has passed. The recording is available On Demand. TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees. This Webinar is Sponsored by: About the Webinar A tenet of the Agile Manifesto is ‘Working software over comprehensive documentation’, and many have interpreted that to mean that […]
Data Modeling, NoSQL, and MongoDB
In mid-2017, erwin, Inc announced the development of erwin DM NoSQL, the most recent evolutionary step in their expansion of erwin’s software. erwin DM NoSQL is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application, supporting erwin, Inc’s Any2 Data Management philosophy (any data, located anywhere). The new addition to the basic erwin Data Management base offers relational data modeling […]
Dec 5 LDM Webinar: Data Modeling, Data Governance, & Data Quality
DATE: December 5, 2017, This webinar has passed. The recording is available On Demand. TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees. This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Data Governance is often referred to as the people, processes, and policies around data and information, and these aspects are […]
Property Graphs: The Swiss Army Knife of Data Modeling
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Happy Days Are Here Again! At least for all of us, who get a kick from new data base technologies. This is much like the repeal of probation in the 1930es (where “Happy days are here again” was a new and popular song). These days the V-commandments […]
A Recent Innovation in NoSQL Data Modeling: Forward and Reverse Engineering Combined
Many organizations would like to develop and incorporate a NoSQL data model in their existing architectures, and to hire staff with Data Modeling skills. Unfortunately, there is a significant lack of data modelers with NoSQL experience, and reliable NoSQL Data Modeling tools are only just beginning to emerge into the market. The shortage of experienced […]
SQL Support for UML Generalizations
Click to learn more about author Michael Blaha. This blog continues last month’s UML theme. Last month we discussed UML associations. Now we’ll discuss UML generalizations. The UML (Unified Modeling Language) is a popular modeling notation that arose from the programming community, but it is also applicable to databases. The UML has a variety of […]