Defining a new approach to data management at the enterprise level, this book takes you beyond information management to information control, where the methods of data capture and manipulation supersede data quantity. Using the Metadata approach ensures long-term, universal control of all data characteristics and improves the effectiveness of IT as a corporate function by minimizing the potential for errors, and improving communication and understanding between IT and other disciplines.
"...this book examines real-world business departments that can benefit from this approach & ways in which sets of metadata can be both autonomous & overlapping."
Part One - The Concept of Metadata: Background. The Challenges of Information Management. Establishing a Common Basic Metamodel. Part Two - Metadata in the Business: Managing the Metadata. The Role of Metadata in Application Development and Support. Metadata in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. The Role of Metadata on the Internet. Part Three - The Basics of Metamodeling: Design and Management of Meta-Databases. Interaction Between Metamodels.
Overview
Defining a new approach to data management at the enterprise level, this book takes you beyond information management to information control, where the methods of data capture and manipulation supersede data quantity. Using the Metadata approach ensures long-term, universal control of all data characteristics and improves the effectiveness of IT as a corporate function by minimizing the potential for errors, and improving communication and understanding between IT and other disciplines.
"...this book...