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Continuation of the 2 part series on the importance of the universal.dynamic in integrating information across the enterprise.
Provides an introduction to the universal and dynamic models, illustrating how these are models of what it takes to be in business.
Using "Country" as an example, illustrates how the same business term can have different meanings that are legitimate within specific contexts.
Discusses why addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers are separate from the Business Parties that use them.
Discusses the various definitions of "Household" that can exist within the organization and illustrates how the Business Party Relationship pattern can be used to support household structures.
Illustrates how the Business Party Relationship pattern can be used to represent organization structures.
Illustrates how the Business Party Relationship pattern can be used to represent the interpersonal relationships between business parties.
Presents a pattern (generic model) for the relationships that can occur between business parties (People and Organizations).
Provides an introduction to the dynamic business model and its applicability for managing information about customer relationships.
Provides an introduction to the dynamic business model as it can be applied to managing the customer relationship information.
Review of The Fifth Discipline, Data Model Patterns and Data Reverse Engineering
Describes two data modeling styles that produce different models from for the same business rules. For flexibility, "meta-level" models have advantages over models that literally represent the current business rules. Provides example patterns that are accommodated through the meta-level model.
Describes some of the barriers a data warehouse analyst will encounter when trying to integrate data sourced from different applications.
Book reviews of Understanding Data Pattern Processing: the key to competitive advantage, How to build Business-wide databases and Data Sharing, Using a Common Data Architecture.
Reviews of The Problem Space, Data Modeling Essentials, Resource Life Cycle Analysis and Implementing a Corporate Repository
Discusses some of the challenges we face in designing databases to support dynamic business models
Shows how common data modeling practices of generalization and aggregation, if not properly used, can obscure the business rules expressed by a business information model.
Illustrates how the business party relationship business pattern can be used to represent most of the inter-relationships between business parties.
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