“A single fact can spoil a good argument.” – Anonymous One of the responsibilities of an enterprise data architect is to understand fact, or “truth”. There is a subtle difference between these two terms, at least when used here. There may be multiple facts that lead to something undisputed, but those facts, although true, are true within a specific context. Multiple facts about something may be referenced by a software application, but at an enterprise level when all software and business processes are taken into account, it is often the case that those facts provide a limited, or slightly different, perspective.
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