Why I’m posting again
June 27, 2005
Some inquiring minds are asking offline why I'm posting again, and what some of my cryptic remarks over the previous months meant...Recently, I left a large consulting and professional services fim, through which I was assigned to a top specialty retailer.... Read more...
A legal precedent involving a data model
June 24, 2005
Some amateur analysis and summarization of Assessment Technologies of WI LLC v. Wiredata Inc, posted on Alan Wernick's site: - The data model can be copyrighted - Copyright to the data inputted into the data model is not automatically granted to the... Read more...
How to govern distributed IT?
June 24, 2005
So, one current meme is that centralized IT staff will increasingly be decentralized out to line of business embedded positions. This jibes with Nick Carr's thesis that the CIO title is akin to "VP of Electricity," a position that some turn... Read more...
Intellectual property specialist lawyer
June 23, 2005
Alan Wernick (chair of the Intellectual Property and Information Technology Group for the law firm of Querrey & Harrow Ltd) gave a great presentation at the recent DAMA/Wilshire in Orlando. I had the chance to visit with him briefly afterwards. He... Read more...
Fundamentals of integration metadata IV: An integration metamodel
June 17, 2005
Entire series: Part 1: Delving into the concept of IT "system" Part 2: Tracing the integration spiderweb Part 3: Software deployment Part 4: An integration metamodel Finally, here is an overall logical metamodel for your EAI competency... Read more...
Greatest hits
June 17, 2005
For those who may be recent subscribers to this blog/email list, a little background: I started this blog as essentially a simple means to collect various thoughts that may be at some point compiled into a book. While I do the standard blogger ranting... Read more...
Looking for IBM “Yellow” books
June 15, 2005
Updated 7/17/2007: this is resolved here. ====================================== I keep hearing rumors of the legendary IBM "Yellow" books, aka the "Information Systems Management Architecture" series. Does anyone out there have... Read more...
James Governor’s blog, & CA
June 15, 2005
Liking James Governor's blog a lot. In particular he (as well as Dennis Gaughan at AMR) are pointing out that CA's acquisition of Niku is part of an ambitious program to remake CA and position it as a comprehensive ERP for IT vendor. I had heard this... Read more...
50,000 hits
June 15, 2005
50,000 hits and counting as of today. Read More →
Federated CMDB: dimensionality is key
June 15, 2005
"Let's put all of IT's data into one database and call it a CMDB!" "Okay! Wait, this is too hard!" "Then let's keep it in several databases and call it a 'Federated CMDB'!" "Okay! That's easier! Wait - why are we... Read more...