Drawing on real enterprise case studies and best practices, Adelman, a data management consultant, walks readers through steps for creating the optimal data strategy for an organization, covering everything from goal-setting through managing security and performance. Chapters cover data integration and quality, metadata, and data modeling, as well as organizational roles and responsibilities, performance, security and privacy of data, DBMS selection, business intelligence, and strategies for managing unstructured data. Annotation ฉ2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Data integration
Chapter 3 Data quality
Chapter 4 Metadata
Chapter 5 Data modeling
Chapter 6 Organizational roles and responsibilities
Chapter 7 Performance
Chapter 8 Security and privacy of data
Chapter 9 DBMS selection
Chapter 10 Business intelligence
Chapter 11 Strategies for managing unstructured data
Chapter 12 Business value of data and ROI
Appendix A ROI calculation process, cost template, and intangible benefits template