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Changing Your Data Management Reality

Changing Your Data Management Reality

The reality we face today is an exponential growth of data with the potential to drive operational efficiencies and innovation. But this deluge of data needs to be managed, in a structured way, through processes, frameworks, practices and ideally driven by technology...

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On Ontology: Poetic Assertions

On Ontology: Poetic Assertions

Parmenides of Elea was a Greek philosopher who lived 2,500 years ago. His primary surviving work is a poem often referred to as “On Nature,” the objective of which is to separate truth from opinion. “What is” and “What is not.” Parmenides is considered one of the...

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Is the CIM glass Half Full or Half Empty?

Is the CIM glass Half Full or Half Empty?

Most large electric utilities have had at least one project to ‘try out’ the industry standard Common Information Model (CIM). Several utilities have even moved on to basing their large-scale enterprise application integration efforts on it. While these small and...

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