Thinking on semantic data modeling and the universal semantic layer, plus release notes on what's new in Ellie.
A five-step product design framework for data teams: start with a problem, test the idea with user interviews, scope needs with conceptual models, link them to logical and physical models for implementation, and continuously validate the product after launch.
Why product design, not technology, is the real bottleneck for data initiatives, and the five steps Ellie.ai uses to validate, model, and continuously improve data products with the business.
Ellie's CEO shares a mid-2022 update: revenue doubled again, customers added in four new countries, and selection into Business Finland's Young Innovative Companies funding program.
Ellie 4.3 introduces customizable entity types, letting administrators define their own categorization and colors for conceptual entities, plus bold/italic PK and FK attribute styling in Logical models.
Why thinking of data as a product, not just an asset, matters, and what makes a Data Product Feasible, Usable, and Valuable, drawing on Zhamak Dehghani's Data Mesh.
Ellie.ai's view on the four megatrends reshaping the data industry: cloud services, next-gen data catalogs, data-driven business culture, and distributed architecture.
Ellie's Q2 2022 roadmap update: customizable entity types landing in v4.3, the new Glossary API arriving in v4.4, and what's next for data catalog integrations.
Why Data Mesh needs more than technology to succeed: how business capability mapping, conceptual data models, and a shared glossary enable true cross-domain understanding.
Ellie 4.2 links Conceptual and Logical models together, adds text boxes and attribute reordering to Logical models, and lets you duplicate Logical models from the Model List.
A Q1 2022 roadmap update covering Ellie's long-term product vision and near-term releases: model access control, logical modeling improvements, and a new Glossary API.
How to spot and solve the "category vs instance" problem in conceptual modeling, using an investing-and-shares example to show when to model the type of thing versus the thing itself.
Data Mesh isn't just for tech giants like Zalando or Netflix. Ellie.ai breaks down what traditional companies can realistically adopt from the Data Mesh paradigm.
A 45-minute call with a data modeling expert, not a sales pitch.