Selling CLEGO

Five Levels Between Chaos and (Almost) AI-Ready Data

There are a few conversations I have had too many times.A frequent one is about the completion of the data contract. “Do I have to fill every section and property?”…

Who Actually Writes the Contract?

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When sovereignty meets software deals

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Marketing ≠ UX — design matters

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Data brokers vs. data sovereignty

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Stop hiding contracts inside products

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Measuring Context for AI

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From Gen AI Hype to AI-Ready Data

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Data quality for AI is a whole new problem

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Welcoming the Agentic AI Foundation: A New Era of Open Standards

The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) has officially launched under the Linux Foundation, uniting foremost AI innovators, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Block, Google, Microsoft, AWS, and more, around open, interoperable standards for…

ODCS v3.1.0 is Here: Relationships, Richer Metadata, and Stricter Validation

On behalf of the Bitol Technical Steering Committee (TSC), I am thrilled to announce the official release of the Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS) v3.1.0. This release represents a significant…

Why data terms mislead

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My Book Was Translated in Brazil

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Catalogs evolved into marketplaces

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Live with Jean-Georges Perrin

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Anoher day, another FedEx delivery

It may look similar, but it is not the same delivery… A nice drop, package is rolling all that nicely…

Going to the UK?

Ultimate trip advice for the UK. Don’t forget your "Remember Jeanne d’Arc" (aka Joan of Arc) T-shirt!

FedEx Delivers Fast

FedEx Delivers Fast, no need to slow down… while on the phone with Bob.

DDL Is Not a Data Contract

This week, I had a surprising comment on one of my posts. I wanted to address it because your data deserves more than just SQL and Prayers.As you may know, I…

Making Pretty Documentation from Data Contracts

Great documentation shouldn’t be an afterthought — it should be a natural outcome of well-defined data contracts.This tutorial is the last of a series of four, explaining how you can use and…

Controlling Schema Drift

In this mission, we’re diving deep into one of the most subtle threats to data reliability: schema drift. As your systems evolve — fields are added, modified, or removed — your once-perfect data contracts…

Playing with Data Products

In the previous tutorial, you built and modified a data contract. In this tutorial, you will see that building a data product is also a matter of only a few…

Experimenting with Data Contracts

Are you among the curious who understand a data contract but fail to apprehend its power? Are you writing data contracts by hand, and would you like to proofread them…

Guess which one I use between FedEx & UPS.

FedEx’s deliveries at their best! FedEx has a very nonchalant way of handling small and delicate packages. But it gets better with larger ones. FedEx hurled the package from their…

Introducing Bitol ODPS v0.9.0

Introducing Bitol ODPS v0.9.0

Double Swag

So You Want to Work With Data Contracts and Data Products?

Let’s be honest: data contracts and data products sound like something between legal paperwork and something you’d find in a warehouse.However, in reality, they’re the backbone of modern data ecosystems….

The I in IBM stands for Inspiration, and the M for Massachusetts

I am back from Think 2025, the annual strategy-oriented IBM conference. The Hynes Conference Center, located in the heart of Boston, MA, USA, hosted the conference from May 5th to…

What is a Data Contract? – DataFriday 5×01

A data contract is an agreement between a data producer and several data consumers.