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Data Management
Data Management: Databases and Organizations, 3rd Edition
Twice recognized as one of the top ten most productive MIS researchers, Watson provides a balanced treatment of the technical and business sides of managing data. Management of data has never been more critical for organizations of any size. This book discusses the technical aspects of database design and implementation as well as the why and how of the management of databases, and the managerial issues and business philosophy behind databases.
Data Modeler's Workbench: Tools and Techniques for Analysis and Design
This manual introduces 20 tools for improving the speed, accuracy, flexibility, and consistency of databases, data warehouses, and operational applications. Each tool is explained using detailed examples, its applications are described, and its optimal operational and reporting environment identified. Particular attention is given to the system's foundation, the process of identifying its requirements, and the modeling of its requirements.
Effective Databases for Text & Document Management
Focused on the latest research on text and document management, this guide addresses the information management needs of organizations by providing the most recent findings. How the need for effective databases to house information is impacting organizations worldwide and how some organizations that possess a vast amount of data are not able to use the data in an economic and efficient manner is demonstrated. A taxonomy for object-oriented databases, metrics for controlling database complexity, and a guide to accommodating hierarchies in relational databases are provided. Also covered is how to apply Java-triggers for X-Link management and how to build signatures.
Mobile Handheld Devices - Enabling Enterprise Communications and Data Management
This report provides IT managers, corporate executives, and relevant network, enterprise application, and device suppliers with the following insights: The benefits and challenges of deploying mobile handhelds across the enterprise; A framework for understanding the mobile handheld devices marketplace; Identification of key trends, enabling technologies, and barriers to adoption; Analysis of the next generation of devices from both a form-factor and functionality perspective; Profiles of the key suppliers that are currently developing and marketing mobile handheld devices for the enterprise; and The market size and opportunities for mobile handheld devices.
Mobile Data Management (MDM 2002), 3rd International Conference
SQL Server Security: What DBAs and Programmers Need to Know
SQL Server Security: What DBAs and Programmers Need to Know is a comprehensive look at securing SQL Server 2000. Author K. Brian Kelley walks you through the basics of security and how it applies to an SQL Server installation. The focus of the book then shifts to the internal mechanisms SQL Server uses to protect data and audit access. Discussion of external security and vulnerabilities due to applications and the operating system as well as network vulnerabilities with respect to the transmission of login information, and unsecured data streams is included. Kelley also reviews several third-party tools that can assist in auditing, securing, and reporting on SQL Server.
Statistical Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery
Massive data sets pose a great challenge to many cross- disciplinary fields, including statistics. The high dimensionality and different data types and structures have now outstripped the capabilities of traditional statistical, graphical, and data visualization tools. Extracting useful information from such large data sets calls for novel approaches that meld concepts, tools, and techniques from diverse areas, such as computer science, statistics, artificial intelligence, and financial engineering. Statistical Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery brings together a stellar panel of experts to discuss and disseminate recent developments in data analysis techniques for data mining and knowledge extraction. This carefully edited collection provides a practical, multidisciplinary perspective on using statistical techniques in areas such as market segmentation, customer profiling, image and speech analysis, and fraud detection.
Implementing and Integrating Product Data Management and Software Configuration Management
Text shows how the integration of PDM and SCM can help organizations quickly and efficiently develop new products and efficiently maintain and update existing products. For software developers, and software and hardware engineers. Includes index, references, and list of acronyms.
XML Data Management: Native XML and XML-Enabled Database Systems
Forty-five international specialists in eXtensive Markup Language (XML) contribute 21 chapters to this text for professionals experienced in database technology and possibly XML, looking to learn how these two technologies can be used together. Coverage includes information modeling guidelines; two native XML databases (Tamino and eXist); products and approaches to XML data management in relational and object-relational database systems; applications and case studies of XML use in such areas as bioinformatics, customer service, cash flow improvement, data warehouses, and inductive database systems; and benchmarks for evaluating XML database performance.
The Functional Approach to Data Management: Modeling, Analyzing, and Integrating Heterogeneous Data
People working in a database-driven intranet or Web-based systems often face the problem how to uniformly access data from heterogeneous local and remote sources. This book combines the functional style of programming with a view of data that is not confined to the well known array and record structures. Programs are written in a style that is independent of data storage representation and thus it becomes easier to compute with a mix of data that comes from different kinds of databases: object oriented to triple store or semi-structured or relational. Readers will learn how the high level of abstraction will enable them to recompile their programs for different storage schemas thus avoiding many of the problems of legacy software.
Sharpening Your SAS Skills
Sharpening Your SAS Skills is an intermediate text on SAS programming and data management intended for those with some knowledge of the SAS language. It covers the most common tools used by SAS programmers and data analysts in their daily work. Designed as a quick-reference and practitioner's guide, this book will be particularly useful for those preparing for the SAS Base Programming exam. The book includes question and answers at the end of each section to reinforce the reader's knowledge of the topic and tables in each chapter that summarize the syntax and expected data. A companion Web site contains examples, extra exercises, the list and log SAS files, and the pdf/html output files.
Information Nation Warrior: An Information Management Compliance Boot Camp
Information management today requires a unique set of technical, records management, legal, and business skills that every organization needs to have in their arsenal today. With that in mind, AIIM is pleased to be publishing this new book.
Written by Randolph A. Kahn, Esq. and Barclay T. Blair, this new book provides readers with tips from the information management trenches and engaging stories of success and failure. Information Nation Warrior is the essential manual for any organization or individual that shares responsibility for the development, implementation, management, and administration of an information management policy or program. The book is broken down into four quadrants that cover the Technical, Legal, Business, and Records Management aspects of developing an information management compliance strategy.
Data Strategy
This book delivers the most current thinking and best practices in developing data management systems with less risk and a higher success rate. It challenges the reader to develop their own set of goals and success criteria, shows how a data strategy can give an organization a competitive edge and suggests best practices to determine what an organization needs. Includes many case studies.
Introduction to Data Compression
Within the last decade the use of data compression has become ubiquitous. This incorporation of compression into more and more of our lives points to a degree of maturation of the technology. This book provides an introduction to the art or science of compression.
Querying XML
For software developers and systems architects, this book teaches the most useful approaches to querying XML documents and repositories. This book will also help managers and project leaders grasp how querying XML fits into the larger context of querying and XML. Querying XML provides a comprehensive background from fundamental concepts (What is XML?) to data models (the Infoset, PSVI, XQuery Data Model) to APIs (querying XML from SQL or Java) and more.
Introduction to Data Compression, 3e
Each edition of Introduction to Data Compression has widely been considered the best introduction and reference text on the art and science of data compression, and the third edition continues in this tradition. Data compression techniques and technology are ever-evolving with new applications in image, speech, text, audio and video. The third edition includes all the cutting edge updates the reader will need during the work day and in class.
What They Didn't Tell You About Knowledge Management
Wake Me Up When the Data Is Over: How Organizations Use Stories to Drive Results
This book includes real-life examples from over 70 respected organizations,
small and large, representing a multitude of industries using stories to drive
results. Leaders from organizations such as Microsoft, Lands' End, Verizon, U.S.
Air Force, and World Vision demonstrate the strong positive influence stories
can have. No abstract theories or platitudes are conveyed here. The book spells
out how Kevin Roberts, CEO worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi, achieved
sustained sales growth after several mergers and downsizings caused the
organization to fall on hard times. It also shows how Erik Shaw, president and
CEO of FivePoint Federal Credit Union, overcame resistance to an organizational
name change, resulting in membership growth exceeding the national average.
Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures
The field of multidimensional data structures is large and growing very
quickly. Here, for the first time, is a thorough treatment of
multidimensional point data, object and image-based representations,
intervals and small rectangles, and high-dimensional datasets.
The
book includes a thorough introduction; a comprehensive survey to
spatial and multidimensional data structures and algorithms; and
implementation details for the most useful data structures. Along with
the hundreds of worked exercises and hundreds of illustrations, the
result is an excellent and valuable reference tool for professionals in
many areas, including computer graphics, databases, geographic
information systems (GIS), game programming, image processing, pattern
recognition, solid modeling, similarity retrieval, and VLSI design.
A to Z GIS: An Illustrated Dictionary of Geographic Information Systems
An invaluable resource for anyone who uses or encounters GIS terminology in the classroom, on the job, or in the field, this dictionary contains more than 1,600 terms covering the entire lexicon of geographic information systems. Terms have been selected from GIS operations such as analysis, data management, and geocomputation; from rapidly evolving uses of GIS for modeling, GIScience, and Web-based GIS; and the GIS foundation fields of cartography, spatial statistics, computer science, surveying, geodesy, and remote sensing. Hundreds of subject-matter experts and GIS educators have reviewed the definitions, ensuring the authoritative coverage that is a necessity for managers, programmers, users, and students discovering the interdisciplinary nature of GIS.
Data Modeling Theory and Practice
This book 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.
Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable Growth
Over the next decade, two out of every three companies will face the challenge of their corporate lives: redefining their core business. Buffeted by global competition and facing an uncertain future, more and more executives will realize that they must make fundamental changes in their core even as they continue delivering the goods and services that keep them in business today.
Unstoppable shows these managers how to look deep within their organizations to find undervalued, unrecognized, or underutilized assets that can serve as new platforms for sustainable growth. Drawing on more than thirty interviews with CEOs from companies such as De Beers, American Express, and Samsung, it shows readers how to recognize when the core needs reinvention and how to deploy the "hidden assets" that can be the basis for tomorrow's growth.
Physical Database Design
Physical Database Design: the database professional's guide to exploiting indexes, views, storage, and more.
The rapidly increasing volume of information contained in relational databases places a strain on databases, performance, and maintainability, and DBAs are under greater pressure than ever to optimize database structure for system performance and administration.
Physical Database Design discusses the concept of how physical structures of databases affect performance and includes specific examples, guidelines, and best and worst practices for a variety of DBMSs and configurations. Something as simple as improving the table index design has a profound impact on performance. Every form of relational database, such as Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Enterprise Resource Management (ERP), Data Mining (DM), or Management Resource Planning (MRP), can be improved using these methods.
Data Preparation for Analytics Using SAS
This book was designed with businesses in mind, but the basic ideas apply easily to all sorts of research endeavors in which decision makers must gather and use data that were initially collected for some other purpose. In my opinion, the book has two great strengths. First, the technical material in the book is wrapped in a sense of purpose and an awareness of the importance of context. The second great strength is the book's organization and clarity. . . . The development of ideas and examples is clear and orderly, exactly as it should be in a work of this type. --Michael T. Brannick PhD, Professor Graduate Program Director, Psychology Department, University of South Florida
Smart Enough Systems
Smart Enough Systems: How to Deliver Competitive Advantage by Automating Hidden Decisions
- How current technologies fail to address critical issues in automating operational decision-making
- How companies can use the computer-based systems they have in place rather than purchasing new ones to build smarter systems
- How these systems can help companies thrive through Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) - designing, deploying and managing automated decisions
For more information visit http://www.smartenoughsystems.com/wp/main.
Arc Marine: GIS for a Blue Planet
Authors of the book Arc Marine discuss results of a successful effort to create and define a data model for academic, government, military, and private oceanographers, resource managers, conservationists, geographers, nautical archaeologists, and analysts and managers of marine applications. Arc Marine is the perfect starting point for the intermediate marine student as well as a resource for the marine GIS expert. At a time when health of our oceans is seen as crucial to our existence, marine researchers have developed a data model that supports sea floor mapping, fisheries management, marine mammal tracking, monitoring shoreline change, and water temperature analysis. This book enables marine professionals to do better work.
Building the Information Asset
Business Intelligence solutions are only the beginning of enhanced reporting. The Information Asset will change the way companies think, react and use their intelligence to make decisions.
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 800 terms by topic.
Oracle PL/SQL: Expert Techniques For Developers and Database Administrators
This book takes you beyond the existing solutions found in other professional and reference texts or in online documentation. Starting from PL/SQL internals that include PL/SQL program structure, internal representation, compilation, and execution, users are taught PL/SQL concepts and techniques that go way beyond SQL, such as data structure management, error management, data management, application management, and transaction management.
Enterprise Master Data Management: An SOA Approach to Managing Core Information
The book is authored by IBM data management innovators who are pioneering MDM, and within its pages they systematically introduce its key concepts and technical themes, explain its business case, and illuminate how it interrelates with and enables SOA.
