Executing Data Quality Projects
Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information™
Danette McGilvray
ISBN: 9780123743695
Copyright 2008
Information is currency. Recent studies show that data quality problems are costing businesses billions of dollars every year, with poor data linked to waste and inefficiency, damaged credibility among customers and suppliers, and an organizational inability to make sound decisions. In this important and timely new book, Danette McGilvray presents her "Ten Steps" approach to information quality — a proven method for both understanding and creating information quality in the enterprise. Her trademarked approach, in which she has trained Fortune 500 clients and hundreds of workshop attendees, applies to all types of data and all types of organizations... [more]
Business Metadata
Capturing Enterprise Knowledge
William Inmon
Bonnie O'Neil
Lowell Fryman
ISBN: 9780123737267
Copyright 2008
Business Metadata is about all the groundwork necessary for IT to really support the business properly. By providing not just data, but the context behind the data. For the IT professional, it will be tactically practical--very "how to" and a detailed approach to implementing best practices supporting knowledge management. And for the IT or other manager who needs a guide for creating and justifying projects, it will help provide a strategic map... [more]
Business Process Change, 2nd Edition
A Guide for Business Managers and BPM and Six Sigma Professionals
Paul Harmon
ISBN: 9780123741523
Copyright 2007
In this balanced treatment of the field of business process change, Paul Harmon offers concepts, methods, cases for all aspects and phases of successful business process improvement. Updated and added for this edition are coverage of business process management systems, business rules, enterprise architectures and frameworks (SCOR), and more content on Six Sigma and Lean--in addition to new coverage of performance metrics... [more]
DW 2.0
The Architecture for the Next Generation of Data Warehousing
W.H.
Inmon
Derek Strauss
Genia Neushloss
ISBN: 9780123743190
Copyright 2008
DW 2.0 builds on the author's work implementing technology and architecture for the next generation data warehouse. DW 2.0 is the first new defined architecture for the data warehouse in 20 years, and helps to solve many problems in industry: analysis of unstructured data (data not in relational databases), the handling of ever increasing large volumes of data, the use of both technical and business metadata, and the flexibility needed for today's ever-changing business requirements... [more]
Data Model Patterns
A Metadata Map
David Hay
ISBN: 9780120887989
Copyright 2006
After years of building enterprise models for the oil, pharmaceutical, banking, and other industries, Dave Hay has here not only developed a conceptual model of such a metadata repository, he has in fact created a true enterprise data model of the information technology industry itself. Data Model Patterns is based on the Zachman Framework for information architecture, encompassing the Business Owner’s, Architect’s, and Designer’s views, for all columns (data, activities, locations, people, timing, and motivation). Learn about techniques, methods, and tools of the information processing industry. This book presents many concepts that are not currently being addressed by such tools, but should be... [more]
Information Modeling and Relational Databases, 2nd Edition
Terry Halpin
Tony Morgan
ISBN: 9780123735683
Copyright 2008
Terry Halpin, a pioneer in the development of ORM (Object-Role Modeling), blends conceptual information with practical instruction that will let you begin using ORM effectively as soon as possible. Supported by examples, exercises, and useful background information, his step-by-step approach teaches you to develop a natural-language-based ORM model, and then, where needed, abstract ER and UML models from it. This book will quickly make you proficient in the modeling technique that is proving vital to the development of accurate and efficient databases that best meet real business objectives.... [more]
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