Peter Aiken

Data are an organization's sole, non-depletable, non-degrading, durable asset. Engineered right, data's value increases over time because the added dimensions of time, geography, and precision. To achieve data's full organizational value, there must be dedicated individual to leverage data as assets - a Chief Data Officer or CDO who's three job pillars are:

Dedication solely to leveraging data assets,
Unconstrained by an IT project mindset, and
Reports directly to the… Show more

Data are an organization's sole, non-depletable, non-degrading, durable asset. Engineered right, data's value increases over time because the added dimensions of time, geography, and precision. To achieve data's full organizational value, there must be dedicated individual to leverage data as assets - a Chief Data Officer or CDO who's three job pillars are:

Dedication solely to leveraging data assets,
Unconstrained by an IT project mindset, and
Reports directly to the business
Once these three pillars are set into place, organizations can leverage their data assets. Data possesses properties worthy of additional investment. Many existing CDOs are fatally crippled, however, because they lack one or more of these three pillars. Often organizations have some or all pillars already in place but are not operating in a coordinated manner.

The overall objective of this book is to present these pillars in an understandable way, why each is necessary (but insufficient), and what do to about it.

Uncovers that almost all organizations need sophisticated, comprehensive data management education and strategies.
Delivery of organization-wide data success requires a highly focused, full time Chief Data Officer.
Engineers organization-wide data advantage which enables success in the marketplace Show less

Peter Aiken, PhD and Lewis Broome of Data Blueprint highlight the need for business to provide a solid data foundation to their data leveraging initiatives. The good news is that this same information architecture can be used for data leveraging strategies. As businesses, we have all benefitted from computer automation. We are now reaching the limits of automation-based benefits and will increasingly look to data leverage as the new source of these benefits. Data, of course, plays a huge… Show more

Peter Aiken, PhD and Lewis Broome of Data Blueprint highlight the need for business to provide a solid data foundation to their data leveraging initiatives. The good news is that this same information architecture can be used for data leveraging strategies. As businesses, we have all benefitted from computer automation. We are now reaching the limits of automation-based benefits and will increasingly look to data leverage as the new source of these benefits. Data, of course, plays a huge role in both of these concepts and advantageous data management correspondingly becomes a necessary but insufficient precondition to success. Information architecture patterns such as Master Data Management [MDM] provide “hows” that correspond to business objective “wants”. Show less

Data management (DM) has existed in conjunction with software development and the management of the full set of information technology (IT)-related components. However, it has been more than two decades since research into DM as it is practiced has been published. In this paper, the authors compare aspects of DM across a quarter-century timeline, obtaining data using comparable sets of subject matter experts.

We illustrate the current application of CoCs (codes of conduct) with a fictional enterprise resource planning (ERP) system implementation failure that is a compilation of real-life cases. Subject to binding panel arbitration, the plaintiff and defendant in the case presented conflicting interpretations of the same facts: From the plaintiff's perspective, the defendant failed to migrate the ERP system as promised; the defendant countered that defective and poor-quality data delayed the… Show more

We illustrate the current application of CoCs (codes of conduct) with a fictional enterprise resource planning (ERP) system implementation failure that is a compilation of real-life cases. Subject to binding panel arbitration, the plaintiff and defendant in the case presented conflicting interpretations of the same facts: From the plaintiff's perspective, the defendant failed to migrate the ERP system as promised; the defendant countered that defective and poor-quality data delayed the migration. Using ACM/IEEE-CS CoC as a reference, expert testimony convinced the arbitration panel that the defendant's position was untenable, and the panel accordingly awarded the plaintiff a multimillion-dollar judgment. Show less

Increasing data management practice maturity levels can positively impact the coordination of data flow among organizations, individuals, and systems. Results from a self-assessment provide a roadmap for improving organizational data management practices.

Presenting results subsequent to those presented at the 2003 ICIQ Conference, we describe how our team-based approach to addressing legacy data quality has necessarily evolved over a multi-year period.

This article describes metadata and the reasons that I consider metadata management to be the number one issue facing the intelligence community.

XML in Data Management is for IT managers and technical staff involved in the creation, administration, or maintenance of a data management infrastructure that includes XML. For most IT staff, XML is either just a buzzword that is ignored or a silver bullet to be used in every nook and cranny of their organization. The truth is in between the two. This book provides the guidance necessary for data managers to make measured decisions about XML within their organizations. Readers will understand… Show more

XML in Data Management is for IT managers and technical staff involved in the creation, administration, or maintenance of a data management infrastructure that includes XML. For most IT staff, XML is either just a buzzword that is ignored or a silver bullet to be used in every nook and cranny of their organization. The truth is in between the two. This book provides the guidance necessary for data managers to make measured decisions about XML within their organizations. Readers will understand the uses of XML, its component architecture, its strategic implications, and how these apply to data management. Show less

Corporate Portals provide secure access to vital information and systems from knowledge resources throughout the enterprise and the world. You know the data is there. Why can't you get the information you need? Both administrators and managers alike know the frustration of maneuvering through legacy systems as well as modern complex data systems to obtain vital information. Now, for the first time, well-known authors Clive Finkelstein and Peter Aiken show you how to solve this problem using… Show more

Corporate Portals provide secure access to vital information and systems from knowledge resources throughout the enterprise and the world. You know the data is there. Why can't you get the information you need? Both administrators and managers alike know the frustration of maneuvering through legacy systems as well as modern complex data systems to obtain vital information. Now, for the first time, well-known authors Clive Finkelstein and Peter Aiken show you how to solve this problem using the most powerful technology available-Corporate Portals. Show less

Practitioners and researchers are currently investigating reverse engineering as a means of leveraging system reengineering and maintenance efforts. This article illustrates the utility of reverse engineering new systems, using as an example a commercial, client server system. We describe the motivations for, approach to, and results of reverse engineering a new system from PeopleSoft (see Enterprise Software side bar)

Interest in reverse engineering is growing as organizations attempt to reengineer existing systems instead of replacing them. When a system is reverse engineered, it is examined, documented, modeled, analyzed, and understood in order to better inform subsequent efforts.

It's a relatively common situation. You break open the shrink-wrap on a million-dollar client-server application and read the directions, which say something like "plug your database in here." The problem is that your legacy data (like that in most large organizations) resides on multiple platforms.

A straightforward guide to optimizing information assets in the networked enterprise, this book includes extended, unpublished case studies from major industry with thorough implementation guidance. The text is supported by many tables, flow charts and graphical models.

Hypermedia technologies have been available for about a decade. Beginning with Douglas Engelbart, researchers have become interested in applying hypermedia concepts and technologies to software development. This paper assesses this symbiosis between hypermedia and software development as described by research contributions; by our count, more than one hundred articles.

Certain types of products appear to be continually associated with poor interfaces. Especially for these product types, the need for active end-user participation in development activities is seen increasingly as critical to quality interface development. Cooperative Interactive Storyboard Prototyping (CISP) is a development approach facilitating active end-user participation in design activities that help to address these apparently difficult design problems.

This chapter outlines a hypermedia-based approach to the requirements engineering portion of software development life cycle. While as yet untested, hypermedia-based tools and techniques seem to offer promising benefits to the analysis and design phases of certain classes of software system development.