I’ve been getting a number of “Happy Thanksgiving” e-mails today, and they’re very nice. But they’ve prompted me to think about all of the things I have that I need to grateful for, as this year starts to winds to a close. First, my family. It’s hard...

The Hub Designs Blog welcomes a guest post by Rob DuMoulin, an information architect with more than 26 years of IT experience, specializing in master data management, database administration and design, and business intelligence. Most business...

“All NDAs are lifted” were the magic words uttered by Steve Miranda from Oracle at the Fusion Inner Circle Event at Oracle OpenWorld on October 15th. Just to make sure, I asked Steve explicitly during the Q&A section of the program if it was okay...

I had a great time at the Oracle OpenWorld conference this year. Oracle did a great job organizing the MDM track. There were a lot of great presentations, and a good balance of speakers between Oracle people, outside consultants and experts, and end...

I had a laptop “near death experience” over the past few days.  It actually started on Saturday (which was Halloween).  So I guess that makes this a “Halloween Hard Drive Horror Show”. First, my Sony Vaio, which I’ve had for two years, got a little...