The Enterprise Data Catalog
A short description of my first book
Today I had the opportunity to take this photo:
Three boxes with my first book The Enterprise Data Catalog (O’Reilly, 2023) arrived to my home address this weekend. The reason? I will be traveling and handing out signed copies over the summer, to advice high level data leaders and executives on data catalogs and data strategies in general. Especially - of course - to leverage high quality data for AI use cases.
My book has done really great, and readers from all parts of the world have reached out to me over the last years, telling me how this book made a difference in their work: as architects, analysts, engineers, leaders, and executives.
The book explains a simple truth that is often ignored: How you organize data defines how you can search it.
This simple truth has a bit of complexity to it, to succeed: first and foremost a metamodel that is built on a knowledge graph. This means that you can organize data in domains that represent your enterprise. And then, your end users of the data catalog can search it seamlessly, because they recognize the structure of the domains and the data they contain.
What’s the count now - I remember speaking to Forrester a while ago … and it was nearly 40 ? Any thoughts 💭