David Hay's Data Model Patterns Paperback

Description

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