Principles of Data Management: Facilitating Information Sharing

By Keith Gordon

Data is a valuable corporate asset. Its effective management is vital to an organization's success, but it's an area to which scant attention is often paid, to the detriment on the business. Data has to be able to adequately support the information needs of the organization. But most organizations have large amounts of data that is fragmented across different locations, formats, files and business units. Data is inconsistent, duplicated, out-of-date, badly documented, and little understood, often the hangovers of legacy systems. This professional reference guide explains not only the importance of data management and how it can be managed, but the issues facing those involved, and how to address them. Distinctively, this book is not based on a particular propriety system or software, but is business focused, providing the knowledge and techniques required to successfully implement a data management function. "Principles of Data Management: Facilitating Information Sharing" covers practical and effective approaches to managing corporate data which will improve communication between users and information systems developers, and support an integrated and cost effective approach to data and information resource development. This book explains how to plan and implement a data management function and critically, how to understand and improve the relationships between data and database administrators, systems development teams and business users. Ultimately users become able to obtain the information they need, confident that it is based on correct underlying data. "Principles of Data Management: Facilitating Information Sharing" also discusses the technical issues that affect data management professionals. Data management initiatives are undertaken for many different reasons, from the implementation of new systems, for legal compliance including Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Freedom of Information Legislation, to the introduction of new ecommerce systems. But where databases for a specific project, or group of customers, have been developed without reference to common and consistent data definitions information provision becomes increasingly difficult, and applications continue to generate data problems for the future. "Principles of Data Management: Facilitating Information Sharing" covers each of the disciplines related to managing data, from the development and execution of architectures, policies, practices and procedures that properly manage the full data lifecycle needs of an organization.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1902505840
• ISBN13: 9781902505848
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: British Computer Society
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 9.7"