Robert Vane, Author at LightsOnData

From fragmented data to planetary-scale systems: why FSA/MEBS represents a step-change in enterprise modeling

Robert Vane — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:59:39 +0000

For decades, organizations have been trying to model themselves clearly enough to build reliable, scalable, and future‑proof information systems. Yet despite thousands of methodologies, tools, and standards, we still see the same symptoms everywhere: Fragmented data Endless integration projects Competing semantics and mismatched models High IT cost for low business agilityIf we step back, it becomes obvious: we’ve never […]

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7 deadly sins of data modeling

Robert Vane — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 16:00:29 +0000

Table of Contents Assumption 1: Process and Data can be detached with minimal consequencesAssumption 2: Simplicity of theory guarantees correct adoptionAssumption 3: Data Quality and Integrity is guaranteed by optimal structural data designAssumption 4: Nomenclatures fully define semantic meaningAssumption 5: All entities convey singular truth, all attributes are atomic, all relationships are trueAssumption 6: Temporality, […]

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Maximum data accessibility construction

Robert Vane — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:20:34 +0000

How do we move Data Accessibility and, therefore, Decision Intelligence closer to the business users? Clearly, there is great benefit in providing seamless and secure accessibility to the right data as and when it is needed…such a capability provides your business with the means to make the right choices at the right time at the […]

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4 lessons to improve your data diet

Robert Vane — Wed, 27 May 2020 15:22:25 +0000

It is encouraging to see the level of emerging focus on the data-centric enterprise, putting data, at least, near the forefront on the business mindset. But how do we keep such a step change true to itself? If we continue with the same behaviours, will we not just keep getting the same results? The Data […]

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A dangerous data science invention

Robert Vane — Wed, 06 May 2020 13:20:18 +0000

Data Scientists can now create Garbage from Truth itself!!! I call it TIGO : Truth In Garbage OutIs the worthy discipline of Data Management and it's wiser sidekick Data Governance fighting a losing battle? Well it might just be...because now you can dedicate much effort to getting such foundational stuff right and have it all […]

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How to calculate the value of your data

Robert Vane — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 15:00:59 +0000

Let's get to the point where effort creates agreed value...I'm always very encouraged when professionals from different architectural disciplines can converge on common ground. This can be rare event, so when it does happen, I like to call it out. Such an event has happened recently with a contact coming from the Business Architecture discipline, […]

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What is scalability in the Enterprise Information Domain?

Robert Vane — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:26:22 +0000

There’s been a lot of talk about scalability recently, some emerging technologies even use it as a differentiator against the established big players…but what constitutes a truly scalable solution and why does it matter? I’ll start with the latter first…if a method or solution or database or tool is not scalable to meet all the […]

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The answer is Federation

Robert Vane — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:39:41 +0000

…What was the question again? Within the Enterprise Information Management space, one thing is clear…data experts can’t do it all on their own…they need the business to help them. After all, Data is a People business. The Knowledge lies with the business and they have accountability for the business data that represents that knowledge. The […]

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The model-driven revolution is here…

Robert Vane — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 17:17:06 +0000

…and it is going to turn the IT world upside down and the put business world back in charge. It all started for me in the very early 90s when I asked what the strange looking computer with the larger than normal monitor was standing, mostly idle, in the my employer’s group IT building, next […]

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