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 / [...]
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 [...]
After a short talk with Andy Hayler, which we met at the last IRM UK event, it’s clear that Andy knows the Master Data Management market inside out. During our pleasant talk, we discussed Collibra’s product, market positioning, and unique approach. He agreed that Collibra provides a lot of value for what people are starting [...]
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 [...]
Collibra at IRM’s DM&IQ and DW&BI conference
Last Tuesday and Wednesday, Collibra presented its Business Semantics Management to a wider audience of very experienced data management, data governance and BI professionals. We got great feedback and a lot of enthusiastic reactions (ranging from ‘brilliant’ to ‘this is what companies should have been doing already 20 years [...]
Introduction
Reflecting back on the SemTech conference, I must always think of the lessons I learned at STARLab from my promotor Prof. Meersman. I learned about semantics from the perspective of conceptual modeling, with of course extra courses on logic.
I found the conference a great success and I learned a lot about new technologies. However I [...]
Collibra Island – zoomed out
I came across this some time ago, and it now reappeared via Google Alerts: the Collibra Island (to be found at 15°52′52″N 119°46′40″E). Zoomed out greatly in the picture on the right, you can see that the island is located in the Philippines, near Indonesia, Thailand and China.
Collibra Island – zoomed [...]