Data Modeling for Information Professionals

Explains to members of a project team creating an information system, especially a computerized system, how to structure data. Discusses such aspects as what data models are, what makes them successful and fail, the components of an enterprise data model, domains, predicates, entities, classes, relationships, and attributes. The CD-ROM contains two full-function CASE repositories developed during the redesign of a travel tour company. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

BOB SCHMIDT has sixteen years' experience in IS™ as a consultant for Arthur Andersen & Co. and Ernst & Young, as a successful entrepreneur developing advanced interactive data modeling education, and as an award-winning lecturer for DAMA, ODTUG, and DECUS. His mission is “to quickly and accurately design and implement large-scale business systems for economic wallop.”

DAVID WARREN holds a Ph.D. in nineteenth century British Literature and has extensive expertise in hypertext and multimedia instruction. He has contributed greatly to the fun and readability of this book.