The video below (now with beautiful audio) describes how you can use Collibra’s Business Semantics Glossary to get an understanding ofand agreement on payment. Starting from ISDA’s 1987 terms and definitions, the video gradually explains how you can add bits of meaning to different things, owned by different people, until at the end, the software [...]
Malcolm has quite a history in information management, and is a regular speaker at international conferences in the field. Recently, he wrote a new book titled “Definitions in Information Management” (available at the companion website). I’ve reviewed the book (available at TDAN), and would recommend it when you are serious about information governance and / [...]
Setting the scene
The image below displays a simplified view of every large organization: an organizational border (represented by the outer circle), an HQ that needs consolidated information (represented in the inner circle), customers (represented by the “dollarized” houses), orders (represented by the trucks moving inside), order-processing units (represented by the factories that receive the trucks), [...]
I recently came across Mike Ferguson’s work a couple of times (once at Enterprise Data World in San Francisco, and once at the Data Governance conference in London). As someone who has been active in the data world for sometime, he clearly recognizes the need to properly understand the meaning of your data through clear and [...]
Jan Henderyckx sent this brief humorous clip on the Semantic Web. It comes from a presentation given at the O’Reilly Open Source conference in 2009, and provides a frightening look ahead.
OMG’s Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules (SBVR) is a standard for semantics. In business terms, this translates into clear definitions of key business assets. In operational terms, this translates into technical models and making sure that the (meta)data is understood and aligned. We illustrate the approach with a customer case from SCA Packaging, which [...]
I recently posted a link to the Datanews article on the Kruispuntbank’s 20 year anniversary (Dutch, French), stating in a tweet that Okkam seems to be one of the few initiatives to deliver a similar infrastructure in the world of the semantic web. I received the following question:
Question via Twitter
The Kruispuntbank (or Crossroads Bank for Social [...]
Mayan glyph
I recently watched a National Geographic episode on the Mayans. It seems archaelogists are still digging up old Mayan pyramids, with amazing finds. One of the more difficult tasks encountered in studying this culture, is trying to analyze their symbols, written on walls, stone, cups and all sorts of items.
I was struck by one [...]
According to Pieter, Business Semantics Management (BSM) is:
the set of activities to bring business stakeholders together to collaboratively realize the reconciliation of their heterogeneous metadata; and consequently the application of the derived business semantics patterns to establish semantic alignment between the underlying data structures.
The picture above gives a good overview of the two different phases [...]
Earlier this week, datanews reported on an error that happened at Belgium’s Bank van de Post. The bank paid a couple of hundred thousands of customers a double premium, and had to reclaim the money. The source of the issue was the “aangroeipremie” (growth premium), which changed into the “getrouwheidspremie” (loyalty premium) on April 1st [...]
