Pip Coburn gave the closing keynote on Naked Without My Data. Pip made the point that lots of people actually don’t want to get quality data - they want to hear what they expect. People are not acting like quality of data matters. They want the data that supports their point of view or conforms [...]

Almost done now and next up is Len from Universal Data Models talking about a Case Study: Implementing a Securities Master Using Flexible Data Models at Lord Abbett. Lord Abbett is a securities company and a very old, established one at that, who regard securities trading as a craft deserving of excellence. Manage 2B in [...]

First session today was some folks from Allstate Financial talking about the Impact of Service Oriented Architecture on Data Modeling: A Case Study. AllState Financial has the large number of data sources typical of a large corporation. Each line of business has its own administrative systems and mergers and acquisitions also create new data sources. [...]