by Colin Cecil | Aug 21, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Risk Management, Technical Debt
Cars Age Better Than Applications Every Friday night in local towns there are displays of vintage cars, all immaculately maintained, engines clean, leather polished, windows and dashboards gleaming. Some were top of the line originally, some were more mass produced....
by Colin Cecil | Aug 18, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Risk Management, Technical Debt
What is Considered an Orphaned Application? Every found a server stuck in a closet still running with some application on it? Acquired a company and all of the employees headed straight for the exit? An unlisted application is found on a server that has to be retired?...
by Colin Cecil | Aug 16, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Delivering Value
Quick aside. This is a group of people celebrating that according to AI are “mixed ethnicity and age”. WTF? Rant #1 Over … On To A Rant About The Fundamental Failure of Application Design Of all the posts on this blog this may be the one that matters...
by Colin Cecil | Aug 16, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Technical Debt
“What is dead may never die” George R. R. Martin The Good As part of the implementation of an application (or at worst retrofitted) all of the data associated with an application that are subject to records retention are either: extracted as part of a Data...
by Colin Cecil | Aug 15, 2024 | Data Governance, SaaS
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) has increasingly become the most popular deployment method for many enterprise level applications. There are many benefits including: Rapid deployment Cost savings, both in purchase and support Regular upgrades Reduced need for internal...
by Colin Cecil | Aug 15, 2024 | About Me, Data Governance
Brief intro – I have 30+ years of IT experience and spent the last 25 years working at Merck & Co., Inc. in the US. During this time, I’ve collaborated with various business groups, including manufacturing, distribution and logistics, accounts payable,...
