Learning the basics of a modeling technique is not the same as learning how to use and apply it. To develop a data model of an organization is to gain insights into its nature that do not come easily. Indeed, analysts are of...

Buy Now From Amazon

Learning the basics of a modeling technique is not the same as learning how to use and apply it. To develop a data model of an organization is to gain insights into its nature that do not come easily. Indeed, analysts are often expected to understand subtleties of an organization's structure that may have evaded people who have worked there for years.

Here's help for those analysts who have learned the basics of data modeling (or "entity/relationship modeling") but who need to obtain the insights required to prepare a good model of a real business.

Structures common to many types of business are analyzed in areas such as accounting, material requirements planning, process manufacturing, contracts, laboratories, and documents.

Topics

In each chapter, high-level data models are drawn from the following business areas:

-The Enterprise and Its World
-The Things of the Enterprise
-Procedures and Activities
-Contracts
-Accounting
-The Laboratory
-Material Requirements Planning
-Process Manufacturing
-Documents
-Lower-Level Conventions

Similar Products

Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)The DAMA Guide to the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DAMA-DMBOK) Print EditionEnterprise Model Patterns: Describing the World (UML Version)The Data Model Resource Book, Vol. 3: Universal Patterns for Data Modeling (Volume 3)The Data Model Resource Book, Vol. 1: A Library of Universal Data Models for All EnterprisesThe Data Model Resource Book, Vol. 2: A Library of Data Models for Specific IndustriesData Modeling Made Simple: A Practical Guide for Business and IT Professionals, 2nd EditionRefactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design (paperback) (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))