A picture is worth 1,000 words. This simple truth is behind the success of various visual modeling tools that help business owners and IT experts reach a common understanding of needs. Last week, ...

A sweeping new systematic review has mapped, for the first time in such detail, how far automation has actually penetrated ...

The Covid-19 pandemic reminded us that everyday life is full of interdependencies. The data models and logic for tracking the progress of the pandemic, understanding its spread in the population, ...

Data modeling is the process of creating a simplified visual diagram of a software system and the data elements it contains, using text and symbols to represent the data and how it flows. Data models ...

Organizations often force the DBA to take on the job of data modeling. That does not mean that DBAs are well-trained in data modeling, nor does it mean that DBAs are best suited to take on this task.