Take IT With You® Series
The "Take IT With You®" Series, published by Technics Publications, is a line of practical and in-depth information technology books with a business intelligence and data management focus. To purchase any of these titles in bulk, click here to contact us and receive a discount.
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The DAMA
Guide to the Data Management Body of
Knowledge (DAMA-DMBOK) By DAMA International Written by over 120 data management practitioners, the DAMA Guide to the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DAMA-DMBOK) is the most impressive compilation of data management principals and best practices, ever assembled. It provides data management and IT professionals, executives, knowledge workers, educators, and researchers with a framework to manage their data and mature their information infrastructure. The equivalent of the PMBOK or the BABOK, the DAMA-DMBOK provides information on: Data Governance, Data Architecture Management, Data Development, Database Operations Management, Data Security Management, Reference & Master Data Management, Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence Management, Document & Content Management, Meta Data Management, Data Quality Management, and Professional Development . Retails for $54.95 Click here to hear Deborah Henderson's Podcast on DMBOK Click here for TechTarget book preview   |
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The DAMA
Dictionary of Data Management By DAMA International and edited by Mark Mosley If you think enterprise data and geospatial data describe Star Trek episodes, you could use the DAMA Dictionary of Data Management. This glossary contains over 800 terms defining a common data management vocabulary for IT professionals, data stewards and business leaders. It is in pdf format embedded with links for easy navigation between terms, and delivered to you on CD-ROM. An index is included with the dictionary, which organizes the terms by topic. Retails for $44.95 Click here to go to an interview with the editor on TDAN.com   |
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Data
Modeling for the Business: A
Handbook for Aligning the Business
with IT using High-Level Data Models By Steve Hoberman, Donna Burbank, and Chris Bradley Learn about the High-Level Data Model and master the techniques for building one, including a comprehensive ten-step approach and hands-on exercises to help you practice topics on your own. We explain the technical notation used for a data model and walk through some simple examples of building a high-level data model. We also describe how data models relate to other key initiatives you may have heard of or may be implementing in your organization. This book concludes with a real-world case study that shows how an international energy company successfully used a high-level data model to streamline their information management practices and increase communication throughout the organization - between both businesspeople and IT. Retails for $38.95 Click here for BeyeNETWORK book review Click here for TechTarget book preview Click here for Podcast   |
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FruITion:
Creating the Ultimate Corporate
Strategy for Information Technology By Chris Potts Part entertaining novel and part enlightening textbook - FruITion takes the reader through a discovery process revealing indispensable messages about the next generation of strategies for Information Technology. - Jeremy Hall, Managing Director, IRM UK Strategic IT Training How will Ian as the CIO react when the management team explores a very different relationship with IT? The strategy that emerges has major implications for the CIO and everyone in the IT department. Retails for $18.95 Click here to go to a voice interview with the author and Claudia Imhoff on the Business Intelligence Network Click here to go to an interview with the author on TDAN.com Click here to go to a book review by Colin Beveridge Recent CIO blog posting More great words on fruITion in this blog posting
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Data
Quality Assessment By Arkady Maydanchik DATA QUALITY ASSESSMENT is a must read for anyone who needs to understand, correct, or prevent data quality issues in their organization. Skipping theory and focusing purely on what is practical and what works, this text contains a proven approach to identifying, warehousing, and analyzing data errors. Master techniques in data profiling and gathering metadata, designing data quality rules, organizing rule and error catalogues, and constructing the dimensional data quality scorecard. David Wells, Director of Education of the Data Warehousing Institute, says "This is one of those books that marks a milestone in the evolution of a discipline. Arkady's insights and techniques fuel the transition of data quality management from art to science -- from crafting to engineering. From deep experience, with thoughtful structure, and with engaging style Arkady brings the discipline of data quality to practitioners." Retails for $54.95   |
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Modeling Made Simple By Steve Hoberman Data Modeling Made Simple is for anyone who needs to understand data modeling in less than 150 pages. It explains how to read, create and validate models of your business and applications. It is written for anyone on the business or IT area who is studying or working in the field of application support or development. This book contains everything about modeling you need to know but were too afraid to ask, such as: - What are the traditional and nontraditional uses of a data model? - How do subject area, logical, and physical data models differ? - What is the easiest way to apply normalization? - How do I decide whether to use denormalization or dimensionality? - What are primary, foreign, alternate, virtual, and surrogate keys? Retails for $18.95 Click here to go to the exercise answers
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Modeling Theory and Practice By Graeme Simsion DATA MODELING THEORY AND PRACTICE is for practitioners and academics who have learned the conventions and rules of data modeling and are looking for a deeper understanding of the discipline. The coverage of theory includes a detailed review of the extensive literature on data modeling and logical database design, referencing nearly 500 publications, with a strong focus on their relevance to practice. The practice component incorporates the largest-ever study of data modeling practitioners, involving over 450 participants in interviews, surveys and data modeling tasks. The results challenge many longstanding held assumptions about data modeling and will be of interest to academics and practitioners alike. Retails for $58.95   |
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