What do we do for BI at LUCRUM Inc?

LUCRUM does Business Intelligence
Well, what does that mean? What do we provide for our clients? What makes LUCRUM different that other companies who “do BI”? Why should someone call LUCRUM in the first place? What value does LUCRUM focus on? If I was on an elevator and someone asked what we do for BI, what [...]

The Data Governance Color Palette

It is no secret that people are different. My wife loves process and order. She is disciplined and pays attention to detail. I, on the other hand, love chaos and new things. I like to create and invent.
Then there are those accountant/analyst folks who love details and facts. Finally, there are those who are people [...]

Welcome to Scott’s “Oversimplified Data Governance Maturity Model”

September 22, 2008
Why so complicated?
Build from the ground up!
As soon as an organization has one person who cares about data, that organization has data governance – albeit, not at a formal level. But, what is formality…at times it plays out as complexity.  It is up to the organization to seek out and develop data governance [...]

Data Governance Overview

I love the word ‘data’ but that ‘governance’ part is scary. What do you think about when you hear the word governance…I hear government. Then I think; big, impersonal, political, expensive, complicated, overbearing, and the list goes on.
Of course, we should break that term down a bit and drill into it. The root word for [...]

My Definition of Architecture

What is an architecture? Well, let’s dissect that and see what we come up with. For starters, it is needed before we solve business problems, before we design and build systems and applications and before we put ‘things’ into production. If you build and deploy applications without an architecture, prepare for a long entrenched battle [...]