As is so often the case, I came to Gartner's exposition of emergent architecture through reading a post from the excellent Todd Biske. As my co-authors on The Technology Garden will still remember, I'm a real bore when it comes to EA and its role...

The other day I read a post from David Norfolk (The MDM tarpit) which generated some lively comment. You can read the post yourself, but to briefly summarise, David highlighted a view that Master Data Management (MDM) should really be...