TDWI Articles

IT and Enterprise Data Management


Time to Kill Metadata?

Metadata is neither meta nor data. The amounts and types of information important to an enterprise today require context, not a misleading term that is only vaguely defined.

Sifting Through the Garbage

Is your data lake just a garbage dump?

Data Digest: Focus on IoT

Articles examine the likely scale and impact of IoT growth, effectively and safely adapting your enterprise for IoT, and overcoming IoT obstacles.

Data Digest: Open Source, Data Center Security

Articles examine a new role for open source in big data, opportunities and challenges for open source in the enterprise, and security priorities for data centers.

Four Misconceptions about Bimodal IT Project Management

Bimodal is all about getting the two modes of delivery -- such as waterfall and agile -- to coexist. We expose the truth about bimodal IT.

A Brief History of Programming for Today's BI Developers

Today's BI application programmers are the beneficiaries of a long progression of language development. Here are some of the highlights that make today's BI applications possible.

Data Digest: IoT in B2Bs, Data Lake Best Practices, Creating a Data Ocean

Potential applications of IoT for B2B enterprises, plus tips to help you prepare for a new data lake and how to effectively build your data lake one stream at a time.

Data Digest: Focus on the Cloud, Gender Inequality in Open Source

Going digital without the cloud, and four things to consider before moving to the cloud. Plus gender inequality in open source.

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