The highlight of the third day at RSC was Grady Booch's roundtable discussion session as usual. He expressed a certain disappointment in today's modelling tools—which are a long way now from the simple visualisation tools originally...

As I look over my Governance landscape I find that I struggle to see how MDM (Master Data Management) really fits into it. Master Data isn't something new, as far as I can see, it's just data. And I was brought up to analyse data as part of...

Frank Johnson has been taking me to task over my view of MDM in my recent blog. He thinks that that I'm being rather impracticable as far as smaller companies are concerned It was enough that these businesses could just get these applications...