Microsoft, SAP and Adobe this week at a Microsoft Ignite conference launched an ambitious effort to create a common data model for applications deployed on the Microsoft Azure cloud that one day could ...

Microsoft's CDM is the linchpin for the recently announced Open Data Initiative and likely even more Microsoft products in the future.

Microsoft's coming Dynamics 365 ERP/CRM service has something called the 'Common Data Model' at its core. Here's more on what CDM is and why it matters.

Lately I've been hearing a lot about common data models when it comes to SOA. As organizations attempt to figure out the data in the context of SOA they are driven many times to the notion of a ...

Azure Data Lake Storage using the Common Data Model; Azure services including: Event Hubs and Azure Data Services for real-time visualization, creation of new applications, and deeper analysis; ...

Attempting to adapt to a common static structure is almost imposable…albeit it looks good on paper. The notion of conformity never works in the world of data, or the world of integration.