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• Never Mind the Pollux....Here's the Last Briefing from Seattle

  Well, it was comedy all the way at the start of day two. I arrived in the main hall for the keynote speeches to be greeted by a 12 foot image of our glorious MD and serial blogger, Dorf and his glamorous assistant David Portas in a video presentation Read More... Posted 09 October 2008 19:12 by Mick.Horne | 5 Comments Filed under: Data Integration, Data Architect, Business Intelligence, SoBI, MDM, Master Data Management

• Soiled Briefs: #2

  It was nice to start the day drinking Starbucks in Seattle. It has that feeling of authenticity about it like drinking Boddingtons in Manchester or getting head-butted in Glasgow. Except of course, that Boddingtons is no longer brewed in Manchester since Read More... Posted 08 October 2008 16:14 by Mick.Horne | 6 Comments Filed under: Data Integration, Data Architect, Business Intelligence, MDM, Master Data Management

• It’s a Lot Less Interesting than Male-to-Female Sex Reassignment Surgery

  I'm back! It’s been a while since my last blog post but reader-pressure has forced me to come out of retirement. Firstly I received an email from Tammy Freeman asking me the following: “One of my tasks at work is to come up with documentation on cost-efficient Read More... Posted 05 October 2008 23:55 by Mick.Horne | 3 Comments Filed under: Data Integration, SOA, Data Architect, Business Intelligence, Upstream, Oil, SoBI, Oil and Gas, MDM, Master Data Management

• Bernard Manning & Spandex Pants

  The NFL came to the UK the other week, when the New York Dreadnoughts took on the Miami Flange Brackets at the “Wembley Bowl” in London (England). Apparently one million people applied for tickets to see 120 fat men rolling around in the mud, Read More... Posted 22 November 2007 16:10 by Mick.Horne | 1 Comments Filed under: Data Integration, Data Architect, Business Intelligence, SoBI, Oil and Gas, MDM, Master Data Management

• Conchango's Hairiest Man (2006)

  It has been a while since my last post. There are a number of reasons for this - lack of time, the fact that blogging comes quite low on my list of fun things to do and mainly because the blog posts I had lined up on my laptop were dealt a severe blow Read More... Posted 26 March 2007 23:43 by Mick.Horne | 3 Comments Filed under: Data Integration, SOA, Data Architect, Business Intelligence, SoBI, Oil and Gas, MDM, Master Data Management