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Data-centric architecture revisits architecture and turns that architecture on its head. Ever since the dawn of client-server computing, applications have been the focus of enterprise IT buyers.
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Alan Morrison
Alan Morrison is an independent consultant and freelance writer on data tech and enterprise transformation. He is a contributor to Data Science Central with over 35 years of experience as an analyst, researcher, writer, editor and technology trends forecaster, including 20 years in emerging tech R&D at PwC.
Semantic Graph as the Next Step for Web Data Architecture
Webby data architects and modelers–the spider-like ones who use intelligent graph design and a bit of glue or another sticky substance to achieve their objectives–are focused on making joinery much more efficient and scaling a lot more useful with the help of more contextualized data.
Magic bullet intelligent process automation, NLP edition
Natural language processing (NLP) has been around at least since the early 1980s, under various names. Back then, I remember machine translations of Russian language… Read More »Magic bullet intelligent process automation, NLP edition
Data protection problems, principles and identity solutions
CEO Dave McComb, President of Semantic Arts, noted during a talk in 2021 that one of his banking clients had customer US Social Security Numbers… Read More »Data protection problems, principles and identity solutions
Reasons for the Cybersecurity Talent Gap
According to a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) project called Cyber Seek, there are around a million people employed in cybersecurity roles in… Read More »Reasons for the Cybersecurity Talent Gap
Comparing data fabrics, data meshes and knowledge graphs
Vendors, consultants, and their clients have been talking in data fabric terms for close to a decade now, if not longer. If “big data” was… Read More »Comparing data fabrics, data meshes and knowledge graphs
Countering Data Tech’s Cheap Speech
Law professor Eugene Volokh was apparently the first person to popularize the term cheap speech, in an article for Yale Law Review in 1995. Recently,… Read More »Countering Data Tech’s Cheap Speech
Keeping Your Company’s Data Model IP
Robotic process automation (RPA) when it first gained attention five or so years ago disappointed me. Here was yet another stopgap measure, a digital form… Read More »Keeping Your Company’s Data Model IP
Seven data-centric architecture innovations that businesses can’t afford to overlook
My mentors and compadres at Semantic Arts hold a Data-Centric Architecture Forum (DCAF) every year in Fort Collins, Colorado. It’s a chance for technically inclined… Read More »Seven data-centric architecture innovations that businesses can’t afford to overlook
Today’s Data Purgatory and a History Lesson from the Energy Industry
Now I shall sing the second kingdom there where the soul of man is cleansed, made worthy to ascend to Heaven. Dante Alighieri, The Divine… Read More »Today’s Data Purgatory and a History Lesson from the Energy Industry