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1. |  Data Modeling Made Simple with ER/Studio Data Architect By: Steve Hoberman Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 15-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 28-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Data Modeling Made Simple with ER/Studio Data Architect
Data Modeling Made Simple with ER/Studio Data Architect (DA) will provide the business or IT professional with a practical working knowledge of data modeling concepts and best practices, along with how to apply these principles with ER/Studio DA. You'll build many ER/Studio DA data models along the way, applying best practices to master these ten objectives:
You will know why a data model is needed and which ER/Studio DA models are the most appropriate for each situation
You will be able to read a data model of any size and complexity with the same confidence as reading a...
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2. |  DefrICtion: Unleashing Your Enterprise to Create Value from Change By: Chris Potts Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 15-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 30-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: DefrICtion: Unleashing Your Enterprise to Create Value from Change
Michael is CEO of a $64 billion global corporation, driving a strategy founded on productivity and growth. Despite having 'best practices' in place, spearheaded by Finance, he's convinced that many of the company's investments in change are still not delivering the most value they can, or even the value they promised. Late one night, while reading a hard-to-believe Business Case for an IT transformation, he makes it his business to find out why.
With the help of his inner-circle of trusted executives and managers, and the serendipitous appearance of a friend-of-a-friend, Michael...
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3. |  By: Angelo R. Bobak Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 25-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 22-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Connecting the Data
Business data integration is a complex problem that must be solved when organizations change or enhance their internal structures. The goal of this book is to present a simple yet thorough resource that describes the challenges of business data integration and the solutions to these challenges such as schema integration, illustrated through an Operational Data Store (ODS) case study.
This book contains three sections spanning ten chapters. Section I, Foundational Concepts, will provide you with the necessary basic concepts and discuss schema integration. Section II, Preparation and...
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4. |  By: Michael Brackett Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 20-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 22-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Data Resource Design
Are you struggling with the formal design of your organization's data resource? Do you find yourself forced into generic data architectures and universal data models? Do you find yourself warping the business to fit a purchased application? Do you find yourself pushed into developing physical databases without formal logical design? Do you find disparate data throughout the organization? If the answer to any of these questions is Yes, then you need to read Data Resource Design to help guide you through a formal design process that produces a high quality data resource within a single...
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5. |  By: Wayne Eckerson Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 15-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 22-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Secrets of Analytical Leaders
Imagine spending a day with top analytical leaders and asking any question you want. In this book, Wayne Eckerson illustrates analytical best practices by weaving his perspective with commentary from seven directors of analytics who unveil their secrets of success. With an innovative flair, Eckerson tackles a complex subject with clarity and insight. Each of the book's 20 chapters is a stand-alone essay on an analytical topic, yet collectively they form a concise methodology about how to implement a successful analytics program.
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6. |  UML Requirements Modeling For Business Analysts By: Norman Daoust Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 15-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 22-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: UML Requirements Modeling For Business Analysts
This book provides you with a collection of best practices, guidelines, and tips for using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for business analysis. The contents have been assembled over the years based on experience and documented best practices. Over sixty easy to understand UML diagram examples will help you to apply these ideas immediately. If you use, expect to use, or think you should use the Unified Modeling Language (UML) or use cases in your business analysis activities, this book will help you:
communicate more succinctly and effectively with your stakeholders including...
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7. |  The Analytical Puzzle: Profitable Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Analytics By: David Haertzen Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 01-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Analytical Puzzle: Profitable Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Analytics
Do you enjoy completing puzzles? Perhaps one of the most challenging (yet rewarding) puzzles is delivering a successful data warehouse suitable for data mining and analytics. The Analytical Puzzle describes an unbiased, practical, and comprehensive approach to building a data warehouse which will lead to an increased level of business intelligence within your organization. New technologies continuously impact this approach and therefore this book explains how to leverage big data, cloud computing, data warehouse appliances, data mining, predictive analytics, data visualization and mobile...
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8. |  O VITI Guia para a Gestão de Dados Corpo (DAMA-DMBOK) By: DAMA International Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 01-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 10-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: O VITI Guia para a Gestão de Dados Corpo (DAMA-DMBOK)
Como uma introdução oficial para o gerenciamento de dados, os objetivos do guia DMBOK® são: Construir um consenso para uma aplicação, geralmente visível das funções do gerenciamento de dados; Fornecer definições padrões para os usos comuns das funções do ger enciamento de dados, entregas, papéis e outras terminologias; Documentar os princípios voltados para o gerenciamento de dados; Apresentar uma visão geral neutra em relação a vendedores de soluções e produtos visando praticar boas práticas comuns, métodos e técnicas sabiamente adotados, e abor dagens alternativas significativas;...
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9. |  The Nimble Elephant: Agile Delivery of Data Models using a Pattern-based Approach By: John Giles Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 15-APR-2012 Insert Date: 21-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Nimble Elephant: Agile Delivery of Data Models using a Pattern-based Approach
"Get it done well and get it done fast" are twin, apparently opposing, demands. Data architects are increasingly expected to deliver quality data models in challenging timeframes, and agile developers are increasingly expected to ensure that their solutions can be easily integrated with the data assets of the overall organization. If you need to deliver quality solutions despite exacting schedules, "The Nimble Elephant" will help by describing proven techniques that leverage the libraries of published data model patterns to rapidly assemble extensible and robust designs. The three sections...
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10. |  Data Resource Integration: Understanding and Resolving a Disparate Data Resource By: Michael H. Brackett Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 15-APR-2012 Insert Date: 21-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Data Resource Integration: Understanding and Resolving a Disparate Data Resource
Are you struggling with a disparate data resource? Are there multiple existences of the same business fact scattered throughout the data resource? Are those multiple existences out of synch with each other? Do you have difficulty finding the data you need to support business activities? Do the data you find have poor quality? If the answer to any of these questions is Yes, then you need this book to guide you toward creating an integrated data resource.
Most public and private sector organizations have a disparate data resource that was created over many years. That disparate data...
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11. |  By: William Kent Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 01-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 21-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 |
Let's step back to the year 1978. Sony introduces hip portable music with the Walkman, Illinois Bell Company releases the first mobile phone, Space Invaders kicks off the video game craze, and William Kent writes Data and Reality. We have made amazing progress in the last four decades in terms of portable music, mobile communication, and entertainment, making devices such as the original Sony Walkman and suitcase-sized mobile phones museum pieces today. Yet remarkably, the book Data and Reality is just as relevant to the field of data management today as it was in 1978.
Data and Reality...
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12. |  UML and Data Modeling: A Reconciliation By: David Hay Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 01-NOV-2011 Insert Date: 30-OCT-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: UML and Data Modeling: A Reconciliation
Here you will learn how to develop an attractive, easily readable, conceptual, business-oriented entity/relationship model, using a variation on the UML Class Model notation.
This book has two audiences:
Data modelers (both analysts and database designers) who are convinced that UML has nothing to do with them; and
UML experts who don't realize that architectural data modeling really is different from object modeling (and that the differences are important).
David Hay's objective is to finally bring these two groups together in peace.
Here all modelers will receive...
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13. |  Data Modeling Made Simple with PowerDesigner® By: Steve Hoberman; George McGeachie Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 01-OCT-2011 Insert Date: 17-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Data Modeling Made Simple with PowerDesigner® Data Modeling Made Simple with PowerDesigner will provide the business or IT professional with a practical working knowledge of data modeling concepts and best practices, and how to apply these principles with PowerDesigner. You'll build many PowerDesigner data models along the way, increasing your skills in first the fundamentals and later in the book the more advanced features of PowerDesigner. This book combines real-world experience and best practices to help you master the following ten objectives:You will know when a data model is needed and which PowerDesigner models are the most...
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14. |  The Hidden Corporation: A Data Management Security Novel By: David Schlesinger CISSP Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 15-SEP-2011 Insert Date: 26-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Hidden Corporation: A Data Management Security Novel
Every day cybersecurity specialist Nancy MacBaron fights in the corporate trenches against criminal hackers intent on stealing her company's sensitive information. She is well trained, highly skilled and security-certified yet she discovers she and her company are helpless in the face of an unexpected data theft from inside.
Called into her boss's office early one morning, Nancy MacBaron is given dual assignments: one, to help locate the person who is holding their data for ransom, and two, investigate how their information management process allowed such a huge amount of sensitive...
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15. |  By: Larry Burns Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 15-AUG-2011 Insert Date: 26-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 |
Is fast development the enemy of good development? Not necessarily. Agile development requires that databases are designed and built quickly enough to meet fast-based delivery schedules - but in a way that also delivers maximum business value and reuse. How can these requirements both be satisfied? This book, suitable for practitioners at all levels, will explain how to design and build enterprise-quality high-value databases within the constraints of an Agile project.
Starting with an overview of the business case for good data management practices, the book defines the various...
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16. |  Data Modeling Made Simple with CA ERwin Data Modeler r8 By: Donna Burbank; Steve Hoberman Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 15-AUG-2011 Insert Date: 26-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Data Modeling Made Simple with CA ERwin Data Modeler r8
Data Modeling Made Simple with CA ERwin Data Modeler r8 will provide the business or IT professional with a practical working knowledge of data modeling concepts and best practices, and how to apply these principles with CA ERwin Data Modeler r8. You'll build many CA ERwin data models along the way, mastering first the fundamentals and later in the book the more advanced features of CA ERwin Data Modeler. This book combines real-world experience and best practices with down to earth advice, humor, and even cartoons to help you master the following ten objectives:
1. Understand the...
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17. |  By: Upadrista Venkatesh Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 06-JUN-2011 Insert Date: 26-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 |
If you have ever worked on an Agile software development project, you know the importance of face-to-face communication. Having both business and IT professionals working together in the same room can become the critical success factor. Can Agile be successful though when team members are scattered across rooms, buildings, regions, or even countries?
Yes! By following the Design for Hybrid Agile Adoption (DH2A) approach, framework and set of templates and tools explained in this book, you can implement successful Agile projects. After reading this book, you will master these ten...
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18. |  The DAMA Dictionary of Data Management By: DAMA International Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 01-APR-2011 Insert Date: 10-JUN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The DAMA Dictionary of Data Management
A glossary of over 2,000 terms which provides a common data management vocabulary for IT and Business professionals, and is a companion to the DAMA Data Management Body of Knowledge (DAMA-DMBOK). This glossary comes as a physical book (see ISBN 9781935504122). Topics include:
Analytics & Data Mining
Architecture
Artificial Intelligence
Business Analysis
DAMA & Professional Development
Databases & Database Design
Database Administration
Data Governance & Stewardship
Data Management
Data Modeling
Data Movement & Integration
Data Quality...
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19. |  Data Resource Simplexity: How Organizations Choose Data Resource Success or Failure By: Michael H. Brackett Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 01-APR-2011 Insert Date: 10-JUN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Data Resource Simplexity: How Organizations Choose Data Resource Success or Failure
Do you fully understand all the data in your organization's data resource? Can you readily find and easily access the data you need to support your business activities? If you find multiple sets of the same data, can you readily determine which is the most current and correct? No? Then consider this book essential reading. It will help you develop a high quality data resource that supports business needs.
Data Resource Simplexity explains how a data resource goes disparate, how to stop that trend toward disparity, and how to develop a high quality, comparate data resource. It explains...
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20. |  Enterprise Model Patterns: Describing the World (UML Version) By: David C. Hay Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 01-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 10-JUN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Enterprise Model Patterns: Describing the World (UML Version)
Here you'll find one key to the development of a successful information system: Clearly capture and communicate both the abstract and concrete building blocks of data that describe your organization.
In 1995, David Hay published Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought - the groundbreaking book on how to use standard data models to describe the standard business situations. Enterprise Model Patterns: Describing the World builds on the concepts presented there, adds 15 years of practical experience, and presents a more comprehensive view.
You will learn how to apply both the abstract...
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