Security by design
Recently a governmental body in the Netherlands has leaked personal data through an application which was able to export data by design. This design allowed records to be both printed or exported to file for future system integrations.
Nine months after rolling out the application, this leaky feature came to light, for personal data was being offered for sale by dubious employees. I was just wondering how many mistakes were made during the hasty development of this application.
The potential data leak was obviously build by design. The real problem seems to be that abusive use of this feature went undetected when it was actively used by a handful of corrupt employees.
Data Centricity
Yes we all use data. The latest buzzwords nowadays either contain the word Big, Semantic and/or Data. Since companies collect more and more data, and attempt to work with more data than ever, the data seems to become more important. There is a trend to build a more and newer applications using that data, and collect even more. That new application is seen as our next data solution. We've become more data driven...
Use Case - ProRail
The Dutch company ProRail is responsible for all rail infrastructure in the Netherlands. They have built an impressive architecture to manage their information needs and to be able to steer IT projects. For this they have been using CaseTalk for more than a decade, and are involved in specifying requirements of the CaseTalk Portal. All of this supports their effort for data governance, and they've published a video on LinkedIn explaining how this works for them.
Black Lives Matter
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".
Computable Award 2007 [NL]
Atos Origin en Erasmus MC winnen Computable Award 2007 voor beste IT-project in gezondheidszorg
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 is (too) easy
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.
