I come from a time when the software was sold at newsstands.
No complex licensing, just low prices, but on the other hand you had to be careful with what was sold, or run the risk of losing money - at that time, a company called Microsoft started to sell their software in newsstands, too - and they were good - and then the market started to get serious and evolved. Oracle appeared a bit later, written in 1977 for the CIA, and the rest of the story you know well. We are at different times when amazing new technologies are here to help us deliver more powerful (and complex) software solutions, pushed also by incredible hardware.
In 1981 I started to become interested in databases, and as a consequence, in designing them correctly - I hate having to write code multiple times - maintenance sucks!
Since then I still work with design - and still hate doing the same over and over. And the best way to do it is to do good design.
Polymorph is my way to ensure one gets good designs from day zero, no details will be missing and updates can be tackled easily. But no last-minute corrections!
Good design serves as the layer on top of which you apply software and/or hardware. With a simple framework, you can create excellent designs and test the output without a single line of code. You can choose any applicable software to match the designs so you are not tied to this or that platform.
It is no different for a data governance platform - you can design the whole thing first, test it in full and, if all goes well, start coding for a solution and buying proper hardware/software - but no surprises. We can even test a report long before it is coded.
Polymorph allows you to do all this with the enterprise models and associated controls; you can add analytics, you can use self-service and still get consistent data throughout the enterprise, in a way very few companies have done so far - if any.
I will say over and over - Data Governance is simple - but if, and only if, you do good design, from concept to final implementation.
Long live Polymorph!
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