Oracle Designer: A Template for Developing An Enterprise Standards Document - Softcover

Mark A. Kramm; Kent Graziano

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130153435 ISBN 13: 9780130153432

Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr, 1999

Synopsis

Outlines standards for system development and sets naming conventions for logical and physical objects as well as for data and process elements, and documents recommended conventions for use with the primary diagramming tools found in Oracle Designer. Conventions are presented for the business process modeler, and the function hierarchy, entity relationship and server model diagrammers. The CD-ROM contains a standards document template in Word. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

About the Author

MARK A. KRAMM is the President of Palindrome Solutions, Inc., which specializes in Oracle CDM Advantage™ and Designer training and consulting. He has published numerous articles in Oracle Developer Magazine and the Oracle Development Tools User Group (ODTUG) Technical Journal and is a regular presenter at national and international conferences. He has been on ODTUG's Board of Directors since 1997.

KENT B. GRAZIANO, Jr., is a Senior Technical Architect for ARIS Corporation in Denver, Colorado, where he leads efforts using Oracle's Designer tool to aid in analysis, design, development, and re-engineering of enterprise systems and data warehouses. He is President of the ODTUG and winner of the 1999 Chris Wooldridge Award from IOUG-A. He is co-author of the successful Data Model Resource Book with Bill Inmon and Len Silverston.

From the Back Cover

“Standardization is critical to the successful achievement of quality in the systems engineering process.” -the authors

There's only one right way to begin an Oracle Designer project: with a detailed standards document from which your whole team can work.

Oracle Designer: A Template for Developing an Enterprise Standards Document brings you:

• Expert techniques for analyzing, developing, and "blueprinting" any enterprise application
• A standards template for system development that can be tailored to meet your organization's needs
• Proven processes for building and improving your own standards documents
• System development standards and naming conventions for all major Designer repository objects with detailed explanations of suggested standards diagramming conventions
• BONUS: White papers on BPM and FHD interactions and Reverse Engineering

The version of Designer used was 2.1.2, but most of the content is applicable back to version 1.2 It is also appropriate for version 6.0, and 6.5. The domain.dmp file on the CD is the only place it makes a real difference. It as built using Designer 2.1.2 and will not work in earlier versions. It should work with 6.0 but will not likely work with 6.5.

ABOUT THE CD-ROM

Contains three powerful tools:

• Complete enterprise standards document, editable in Microsoft® Word and appropriate for any Oracle Designer project
• Oracle Designer archive file containing an application system, complete with pre-defined domain definitions.
• BONUS: Oracle Developer report for extracting business rules from the Designer repository

From the Inside Flap

Preface

This book is for those of you in the Oracle world that use the Designer tool to get your jobs done, but dread that one task we all must do: develop a corporate standards document. If you like doing these sorts of things, chances are you already have one, so this book is not for you (unless you are in need of a good sleep aid).

The idea to write this book came from our own painful experiences trying to create these documents on every major project undertaken. We found ourselves constantly writing the same thing over and over again. Each time we had to try to remember all the things we included the last time. What was that one little standard that we used two projects back that helped so much? What was that one we forgot to include the last time that nearly ate our lunch? Sound familiar? This, along with numerous e-mails from the Oracle Development Tools User Group

e-mail list asking for standards, led us to conclude that there is a need for a book that will help Oracle Designer teams get off on the right foot.

If you have had any experience with large (and medium-sized) projects, you already know how critical good, comprehensive standards are to the success of the project. This book is for you! If you have not had that experience, trust us; you need this book, too. This book and the template on the CD-ROM will save you hours of thankless drudgery.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130153435
• ISBN 13: 9780130153432
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300