Tribute to the Piano Man

In light of Billy Joel's birthday this past weekend, I'd like to add this attempt at an Information Management and Data Quality Song. Sung to the beat of "We didn't Start the Fire".

Now I'm no song writer so if there's a beat off...just grin and bear it.


Phone Calls, Punch Cards, Magnetic Tape,
Pay Checks, Health Care, Data Management.

SAP, IBM, Microsoft, ATMs
PMP, ITIL, Change Management.

Objects, Data Points, Elements, Analysis
Reports, Entities, Attributes, Screen Freeze.

Data Warehousing, Let’s put it to the test
Data Quality, Bad Data, Do not cry.

We didn't make the data
It was always shocking
Since the server’s been running
We didn't make the data
No we didn't mine it
But we tried to hide it.

Wireline, Wireless, Voice over the Internet
Sextant, Compass, Satellite GPS.

DOS, Windows, Linux, iMAC OSX
95, 98, XP, Vista, Integrate.

Standards, Governance, Best Practice,
Service Desk, Third Line Support is the Best.

Java, XML, Perl, HTML
Web Portal, Interface, Trouble on the Server.

We didn't make the data
It was always shocking
Since the server’s been running
We didn't make the data
No we didn't mine it
But we tried to hide it.

FoxPro, SQL, Teradata, Oracle
Access, Excel, Crystal, Where to go.

Master Data Management, Business Process Management
DBM, DBA, The Data Warehousing Institute.

Data Architecture, Data Models, Stored Procedure
Parsing, Deduplication, Cleansing, Data Integration.

Business Intelligence, Predictive Analytics,
Microstrategy, Cognos, Infosphere.

We didn't make the data
It was always shocking
Since the server’s been running
We didn't make the data
No we didn't mine it
But we tried to hide it.

Agile, Iterative Model, IDEF, Spiral Model
Design, Test, Deploy, Nomalization.

RSS, PHP, ASP, Datamania
eMail, gifs, docs, Unstructured Data.

GIS, ERD, SOA, ETL
DOT COM blown away, what else do I have to say.

We didn't make the data
It was always shocking
Since the server’s been running
We didn't make the data
No we didn't mine it
But we tried to hide it.

Kick-off, JAD Session, Use Case, Swim Lanes
PM, DM, Business Analyst.

Thresholds, Trending, Anomalies,
Outliers in the chart, Data Quality is an art.

Knowledge Management, Collaboration,
Blogs, WIKI, Sharepoint, Web 2.0.

Corporations lying, Sarbanes-Oxley is the law
Market Crash, I can't take it anymore.

We didn't make the data
It was always shocking, Since the server’s been running
We didn't make the data
But when we are done
It will still be wrong, and wrong, and wrong, and wrong...

We didn't make the data
It was always shocking
Since the server’s been running
We didn't make the data
No we didn't mine it
But we tried to hide it.

We didn't make the data
It was always shocking
Since the server’s been running
We didn't make the data
No we didn't mine it
But we tried to hide it.

We didn't make the data
It was always shocking
Since the server’s been running
We didn't make the data.