The Enterprise Data Model

by Andy Graham

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
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140 pages, Paperback

First published August 25, 2010

About the author

Andy Graham was born in Dartford (in Kent) and now lives in East Sussex. He graduated from the University of the West of England and has worked since graduating within the field of data and information management. He has held a number of senior data roles for companies such as HSBC, IMS Health, Sybase, Hummingbird (formally Andyne), Business Objects and currently he works at Rentokil Initial.

Writing has become an interest that complements his day to day working life. This book is his third, although the first two are more aimed at data professionals rather that the general public.