Most recently published articles

Addresses the management of the application portfolio with a focus on enterprise-wide architectures, integration of data and process management approaches, roles of operational and decision support applications.

Reviews of books associated with many of the other topics.

Business Rule Analysis topics such as what are business rules and why they are important in managing information, how business managers formulate business rules, the use of natural language in documenting business rules, formal constraint languages which can be used to capture and analyze business rules, the progress of research and products relating to business rule management.

Computer-aided Systems Engineering (CASE) primarily with respect to evaluating and selecting CASE tools

Relates to techniques used to manage change in the application portfolio, such as impact analysis and release management within a single application and across the application portfolio

Addresses the entire information management architecture from an enterprise perspective so that the various technology components, such as operational, operational data stores and data warehouse can be integrated into a cohesive architecture.

Why information systems architectures must change to support customer intimacy.

Data administration functions, such as why the data administration function needs to exist, documentation approaches, etc. elated topics include metadata and data modeling.

Articles that address aspects of migrating data between database management environments

Explores how data mining techniques are used to extract business rules and trends from an enterprise's data resource.

Why data modeling is important in extracting and representing business rules, data modeling approaches and methodologies, impact of OO and Star models on data modeling.

Discusses the impact poor data quality has on the business and techniques that can be used to raise the quality of your data

Data Warehouse topics such as what is a data warehouse and why does a business need one, the architecture of a data warehouse, issues associated with implementing a data warehouse and the state of research and products relating to data warehouses.

How generic business model can be used to provide the flexibility required to support business-rule driven enterprises.

Explores concepts associated with the Management Sciences concepts of the learning or intelligent enterprise

Metadata is the information which is captured about the information resource and the application portfolio which supports that resource. Topics addressed include why metadata is an important component of the information resource and standards for metadata.

Anything related to OO, primarily focusing on OO's impact on information resource management.

Exploreses how process and data modeling can be integrated.

Identifies articles and books which are primarily reviews of vendor products or that provide examples of how vendor products have been used in managing the information resource.

What is a repository and why is one important, the repository's role in managing the information resource and application portfolio, evaluating and selecting a repository and the state of the research and products relating to repositories.

How business rules can be extracted from code and databases. Why its important to recover the business rules buried in our application portfolios.

Addressing issues associated with business information and strategic planning

Articles that describe the Zachman Framework, explain how to use it or illustrate how it is used to manage the information resource.

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