In the wake of current protests and shows of solidarities around the world, we found the opportunity to join the peaceful protest in Utrecht (Netherlands) to add our voice to support raising awareness of racist and biased treatments of black people and all marginalized people. Factually "all lives matter", but before we can accomplish that we need to really address that currently some lives seem to matter less, for that phenomena we all need to make room to listen and understand "black lives matter". Only by fully acknowledging that black people are not less, understanding that maginalizing people is wrong, we can learn the meaning of "all lives matter".
Utrecht, 15 oktober 2007
Atos Origin, een internationale IT dienstverlener, en het ziekenhuis Erasmus MC, één van de grootste universitaire medische centra in Europa, hebben de Computable Award 2007 gewonnen voor een hoogwaardig en innovatief IT-project in de gezondheidszorg. Deze belangrijke prijs is toegekend vanwege de succesvolle implementatie van een datawarehouse voor de Intensive Care in het Erasmus Medisch Centrum in Rotterdam. De IT-dienstverlener was bovendien genomineerd voor een Computable Award voor de Beste IT-Dienstverlener van het Jaar en voor een IT Marketing Award.
Type level modeling can be easily done. Like any high-level concept map, everything written down can be compared to writing on a clean sheet of paper, or any empty blackboard: it’ll fit. There’s a Dutch saying, “Paper is patient,” meaning the paper will not protest or object to your writings.
Almost every session I'm in, explaining the power of Fact Modeling, there are questions on how to deal with different departments having an entity called "Customer" while they all mean something else, or use a different identification for it. This little article will show a possible verbalization for this issue.
Temporal modeling is a hot topic in data warehouse and BI environments. The data vault approach or anchor modeling are an attempt to make those environments more manageable. From the information modeling perspective however, these are technical in nature. Though the information model could capture those technical requirements, it would be an information model with an implementation in mind, and not simply capture the business communication. We would be modeling the data warehouse implementation itself and not the way the business communicates about their data.
(A follow up article may be found here.)
July 2018
With the recent rush for GDPR compliance, we wanted to show you how simple the extension of new data model requirements can be in CaseTalk. It's a simple two-step procedure to mark all elements sensitive to privacy violations as such. But first, the definition of GDPR:
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). It also addresses the export of personal data outside the EU and EEA areas. The GDPR aims primarily to give control to citizens and residents over their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for international business by unifying the regulation within the EU.
Superseding the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, the regulation contains provisions and requirements pertaining to the processing of personally identifiable information of individuals (formally called data subjects in the GDPR) inside the European Union, and applies to all enterprises, regardless of location, that are doing business with the European Economic Area. Business processes that handle personal data must be built with data protection by design and by default, ... [source: wikipedia]