The Enterprise Data Model - Softcover

Andy Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956582907 ISBN 13: 9780956582904

Publisher: Koios Associates Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

Wouldn't it be great to understand all the data in your organisation? Just imagine being able to define, agree and manage information concepts that impact on business strategy? Then image that these information concepts can be linked to the physical database attributes that ultimately are used to create them. That's what this book is about. It focuses on the data model as the foundation for achieving this understanding. This book provides a framework for the enterprise data model, the business reasons behind it and the differences between conceptual, logical and physical data models. The question of how, and why, to use a data model artifact as part of the data governance toolkit for the whole enterprise is also addressed. This publication is not an in-depth manual on how to model data for a new database system or your next design project. It instead focuses at a level above these implementation projects and addresses the issues that organisations typical struggle with, such as:

• How do we provide a framework within which we can manage our data assets?
• How do we develop applications that adhere to a set of data standards; without creating a nightmare of administration and governance that is both unwieldy and unusable?
• How can we get business value from our enterprise data?

Chapter headings are:

• Chapter 1 - Introduction
• Chapter 2 - Information and Data
• Chapter 3 - Pillars of Value
• Chapter 4 - An Overview of Data Modelling
• Chapter 5 - Data Architecture
• Chapter 6 - The Enterprise Data Model
• Chapter 7 - Build the Model one Project at a Time
• Chapter 8 - Master Data
• Chapter 9 - Data Governance
• Chapter 10 - The Enterprise Data Framework

About this title

About the Author

Andy Graham is an experienced thought leader in the field of data and information architecture. Andy is Head of Data Architecture for HSBC's commercial banking arm. In his spare time he writes, publishes and does a little bit of training through his own company Koios Associates.

Formerly, Andy was Head of Enterprise Data Architecture at IMS Health where he provided leadership in the area of data architecture. Prior to this Andy worked as the Regional Manager of Sybase's Northern European Business Intelligence organisation. While at Sybase, he played a key role in building the BI organisation across EMEA and was instrumental in the delivery of many successful enterprise information solutions.

Andy has also worked for Hummingbird (formally Andyne) as the UK Consultancy Manager, where he was responsible for the development of a full spectrum of professional services to complement the companies' software offerings.

Andy started his data management career at Business Objects, where he was one of the founding members of the UK organisation and as such was responsible for the success of many customer implementations and information strategies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Koios Associates Ltd
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0956582907
• ISBN 13: 9780956582904
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140