Malcolm Chisholm
Malcolm Chisholm is an independent consultant focusing on meta data engineering and data management. He is the author of How to Build a Business Rules Engine and Managing Reference Data in Enterprise Databases and frequently writes and speaks on these topics. Chisholm runs two Web sites http://www.bizrulesengine.com and http://www.refdataportal.com. You can contact him at mchisholm@refdataportal.com.
Recent Stories From this Author
The Database State
July 23, 2008 Technical issues tend, quite naturally, to be the focus of attention for data professionals, but those who call themselves...
Metadata is Master Data
June 19, 2008 Any discussion of metadata has to begin by defining what it is.
Resistance is Futile: IT and the Business are One
May 20, 2008 In the IT business there is increasing distress caused by the idea that a colony of aliens is not only lodged in their midst,...
The Level Zero Hero
April 14, 2008 The level 0 hero must continuously intervene to keep an application running, often creating an obstacle to enterprise-wide...
The Roach Motel Repository
March 6, 2008 Are we guilty of building processes, services and infrastructures that serve to trap knowledge that can never get out again?
This is a Title
February 20, 2008 Definitions of items of data really matter, but there are a couple of ways to see the value in them. One is when we focus on an...
The Artist Formerly Known as Prince
January 17, 2008 Eventually, you see master data management (MDM) problems everywhere. A few years ago, I was turning off the Garden State...
The Sundial of Ahaz
January 3, 2008 It is strange to think that data sharing has been going on for a long time, but it is only now that it has become an issue of...
The Twin Towers of BI Babel
November 30, 2007 Architecture really does matter in information management. It emerges as an issue in many endeavors, but it is especially...
Wiki, Waki, Woozi
October 29, 2007 The problem with emerging technologies, concepts and methodologies is figuring out how much they can deliver versus the level...
