PART 1PRELIMINARIES
In this part we describe the importance of data to the enterprise, introduce the concept of database design and consider the roles and responsibilities of data management within an enterprise. This part has three chapters.
Chapter 1 – Data and the Enterprise – introduces the idea that information is a key business resource. It starts by exploring the relationship between information and data. We then move on to a discussion of the importance of the quality of the data that underlies the information. If the quality of data is important, what are the common problems with data? Why must we take an enterprise-wide view of data? The chapter concludes by highlighting that the management of data is a business issue and not a technical ...
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