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Data Resource Quality: Turning Bad Habits into Good Practices (Addison-Wesley Information...
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by Michael H. Brackett
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Discount: 23 %
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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company; 1st edition September 8, 2000
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201713063
ISBN-13: 978-0201713060
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Book Info
Features the ten most fundamental and frequently exhibited bad habits that contribute to poor data quality and presents the best strategies and best practices for effective solutions. The goal: reduced data disparity and duplication, increased productivity, and more. Softcover. DLC: Database Management--Quality Control.
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"Michael Brackett provides a wake-up call for information technology managers around the world. We can continue with our current practices, slowing down our ability to compete, or we can buckle down and focus on the basics of improving data quality. This book provides a look at the fundamentals of good data management practice. Use it well."
—From the Foreword by Ron Shelby, Chief Information Officer, e-GM
Poor data quality impacts every facet of today's private enterprises and public organizations. The deplorable condition of this critical resource in organizations around the world lowers productivity, impedes the creation of decision support systems (such as data warehousing), and hinders the development of e-commerce and other strategic initiatives. The future success of organizations will greatly depend on how well they design and maintain their data resources.
Written by a world expert in data resources, Data Resource Quality features the ten most fundamental and frequently exhibited bad habits that contribute to poor data quality, and presents the strategies and best practices for effective solutions. With this information, IT managers will be better equipped to implement an organization-wide, integrated, subject-oriented data architecture and within that architecture build a high-quality data resource. The result: reduced data disparity and duplication, increased productivity, and improved data understanding and utilization.
Covering both data architecture and data management issues, the book describes the impact of poor data practices, demonstrates more effective approaches, and reveals implementation pointers for quick results. Readers will find coverage of such vital data quality issues as:
* The need for formal data names and comprehensive data definitions
* Proper data structures, covering the entity-relation diagram and the combined three-tier and five-schema structure
* Precise data integrity rules
* Robust data documentation
* Reasonable data orientation, including business subject, business client, and single-architecture orientation
* Acceptable data availability issues, covering backup, recovery, and privacy
* Adequate data responsibility, discussing authorized stewardship, centralized control, and procedures
* Expanded data vision for improved business support
* More appropriate data recognition leading to better data targeting within the organization
With these strategies for successful data resource development, IT managers will be able to set a proper course for an efficient and profitable long-term data resource solution. 0201713063B04062001
Customer Reviews & Comments
Once again Michael Brackett does a great job. I've often thought that Michael is a perfectionist. However, I see more clearly now that he is a wounded soldier that has experienced the battles of data administration. You will find this book exciting - I mean is you love the topic. Michael dictates the "right" way to set up data administration and the ramifications of not doing so. The book is full of suggestions and pointed comments. I believe that Michael knows the subject as well as anyone, and has a vengence to correct the chaos that is currently prevalent in this area. Buy it! Read it! Then re-read it! Wait about 6 months and read it again until it sinks in. He's right on target with this one.
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