247: It's on the Server Somewhere
The last episode made the case that your project history is worth something. This one asks why you can't use it. Two reasons keep coming up: the data means different things to different systems and different people, and it's scattered across far more places than anyone planned for.
Ariel Cooke-Zamora at Bimbeats explains how a data dictionary keeps an AI from misreading your data, and I add a caveat about keeping it pruned. Randall Stevens at AVAIL describes a customer running 180 applications, and says the best information is at the edges of the network. Aaron Vorwerk and Mike Soldan at…
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