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Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management...
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by David C. Hay
Sales Rank: 105316
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Discount: 21 %
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Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 1 edition June 23, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0120887983
ISBN-13: 978-0120887989
Product Dimensions:
9.4 x 7.7 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
Product Review
A very ambitious undertaking, masterfully described. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first published version of the detailed models implied by the Zachman Framework. David Hay builds the models one step at a time, describing in each increment why the new entities were added, and how they related to the rest of the model. At least as important he sprinkles in lessons learned from his vast experience modeling in various other industries.
Dave McComb, President, Semantic Arts, and author of Semantics in Business Systems
Dave Hays latest book provides detailed metaschemas for the main concepts underlying the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture, incorporating recent proposals from the Business Rules Group. By covering this vast territory in an easy-to-read style, Dave provides a valuable resource that should be of interest to data modeling professionals. Terry Halpin, Neumont University
Book Description
In recent years, companies and government agencies have come to realize that the data they use represent a significant corporate resource, whose cost calls for management every bit as rigorous as the management of human resources, money, and capital equipment. With this realization has come recognition of the importance to integrate the data that has traditionally only been available from disparate sources.
An important component of this integration is the management of the metadata that describe, catalogue, and provide access to the various forms of underlying business data. The metadata repository is essential keeping track both of the various physical components of these systems, but also their semantics. What do we mean by customer? Where can we find information about our customers?
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.
* A comprehensive work based on the Zachman Framework for information architectureencompassing the Business Owner's, Architect's, and Designer's views, for all columns (data, activities, locations, people, timing, and motivation)
* Provides a step-by-step description of model and is organized so that different readers can benefit from different parts
* Provides a view of the world being addressed by all the techniques, methods and tools of the information processing industry (for example, object-oriented design, CASE, business process re-engineering, etc.)
* Presents many concepts that are not currently being addressed by such tools and should be
Customer Reviews & Comments
I have always considered Data Model Patterns by David Hay to be a classic. In this new book, he extends his perspective to cover the questions raised by metadata, providing answers in the context of the Zachman framework. Hay show how far simple reasoning, clear language, and outstanding diagrams can go to help document enterprise architectures. There is no need for fancy mathematics, normalization theory and predicate calculus to capture the essence of an enterprise.
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