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Comment on The 10 Commandments … Or The 7 Deadly Sins? by John Williams

John Williams — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:27:20 +0000

It's nice that you're such a cheerleader for yourself. We're impressed that you're a C-Level at the world's largest something or other.

I thought I was going to throw up reading this. This blog posting shows that you have committed at least several of your own sins.

Comment on Catching The Dodgers And Raising Taxes - Without "Raising Taxes" by Nic

Nic — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:36:00 +0000

IBM bought a technogolgy around 4 years ago that had previously been used by the gambling industry to spot facial patterns, and people who had been with other people at times when they had been taken for significant amounts of cash.
we're talking multiple millions within 15 minutes.
As far as i know, from talking to connections, this has and is now being implemented mostly for defence organisations.
Can you trump that kind of data integration?

Comment on Improving Healthcare Across The World With Data Integration by Pamela Szabo

Pamela Szabo — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:15:21 +0000

If all goes as planned, within a small number of years, there will be another case to add to this list. The U.S, Department of Health and Human Services, collaborating with more than 20 federal agencies through the Federal Health Architecture, had its first public seminar of their new "CONNECT" architecture at the end of June.

There was excitement over the possibilities for commercial gain as well as for the ultimate goal of patient owned records being accessible as needed among participating government and private healthcare providers. There was also resistance and perhaps fear over the huge potential impact on EMR system providers and integrators. It will definitely be interesting to watch as participants in the National Healthcare Information Network begin coming "online."

Comment on Stay Employed By Eliminating Work by Anthony Plattsmier

Anthony Plattsmier — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:13:04 +0000

I couldn't agree with you more. However at my most recent engagement this strategy was implemented by introducing virtualization processes (automating rapid deployments) so that costly mistakes would be significantly reduced. Management embraced the project but we (as in American business operations) still have to impress upon management that they cannot simply take these solutions and throw them over the fence to cheaper labor. The pull, allure or ego is so strong that it seems executives caught up in the numbers game will stop at nothing if it cannot balance out in the next quarter. We as stockholders have to learn that lesson as well so that these unsustainable actions are no longer rewarded.

Comment on Stay Employed By Eliminating Work by Pradeep Bhanot

Pradeep Bhanot — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:04:10 +0000

John, I agree that eliminating the mundane provides IT with the opportunity to be more strategic, which makes outsourcing less of a threat.

Fortunately there is a big change going on the IT workplace. There was a time when your job title strictly dictated your role. Today what you do is defined by your role in clear processes. Workflow that comes out of ITIL based practices and PPM solutions define your role in a particular instance of a process. This flexibility breaks down some of the siloed behavior and creates the opportunity to gain efficiencies, especially in organisations where Lean thinking is prevalent.

Comment on Stay Employed By Eliminating Work by Peter Funnell

Peter Funnell — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:09:15 +0000

Nicely written article sir! Hope you're doing well, and hope the MBA deal is going smoothly. Best regards. -PF

Comment on Lean Integration Part 7: Build Quality In by Kevin P. Davis

Kevin P. Davis — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:01:17 +0000

Part 6 of the 10 weeks to Lean Integration seems to be not linked properly to the front page. Any chance that can be fixed? This is a very insightful series, and I would like to see how teams get empowered.

Thanks,
kpd

Comment on Catching Terrorists And Making The World A Safer Place by Ivan Chong

Ivan Chong — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:02:07 +0000

Frank

Thanks for posting your thoughts. There is definitely a balancing act between data sharing and privacy/security. A number of Informatica's Identity Resolution customers have spoken to us about the challenges you describe in your comments and we are working jointly with them to come up with a solution. As you noted, some of the work involves working with standards being authored by various organizations. Please contact me directly so I can share more detail about the progress being made in this area.

Ivan Chong
General Manager, Data Quality
Informatica Corporation

Comment on Data Management Emerges as a "Power Center" by Predictive Dialer Software

Predictive Dialer Software — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:17:29 +0000

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Comment on Catching Terrorists And Making The World A Safer Place by Frank Johnson

Frank Johnson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:49:11 +0000

Chris,

I appreciate the information in this article. It was a good read.

It has been my personal experience that legislation will be one of the biggest obstacles at achieving a global identity database that involved biometrics. Laws currently in place restrict a great deal of data collection. US Federal Regulation (28 CFR part 23 http://www.iir.com/28cfr/FAQ.htm ) has certain restrictions within it that limits having criminal and non criminal information within the criminal intelligence systems.

This means shared information systems used by law enforcement or any other agency would have to pull information from several databases to validate someone’s identity from biometrics, facial recognition, fingerprint, or images to achieve identity resolution. While that is not impossible, it can be very challenging to say the least.

Currently agencies are working at using NIEM standards ( http://www.niem.gov ) to share this type of information. This model will unify the data, but doesn’t deal with master data management issues or data quality problems. Since several databases will be used, and identities can and will be duplicated, there will be problems with conflicts related to who’s data is the correct data to process or who’s data is more factual. Since there is no single source of the truth, there are concerns with properly achieving identity resolution.

I hope this information helps draw some light into problems faced by architects, modelers, developers, and project managers that would work on projects related to this subject matter.

Frank Johnson