Gregory Maciag: Enterprise Data's Dirty Little Secret

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Friday, 06 May 2011

Enterprise Data's Dirty Little Secret

"Management doesn’t want to hear about data models or data architecture. Management doesn’t want to hear about the investment that’s necessary in a data management infrastructure separate from the technology platforms. That’s just noise, right? So just go put the data on the box and give me a reporting tool already, right? I don’t care about metadata, I don’t care about semantic reconciliation, I don’t care about your data model. I don’t want to hear about the mechanics of it."

The ACORD Framework is a great tool for us and is already impressing many of our members. But in truth, there will be a day when we do not need to talk about standards and models. Not unlike all the standards we use everyday in every part of our lives. They just work.

Read the whole piece for the great dialog between Jill and Loraine in this pithy expose of "Enterprise Data's Dirty Little Secret".

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Posted on Friday, 06 May 2011 in Data, Framework | Permalink

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