REPOSITORY FEATURES

The repository acts as an encyclopaedia of knowledge about the organisation and its goals, structure, functions and processes. Conceptual data models and process models should be stored in the repository, as well as information about design details and the different types of data and data structures in use across the enterprise.

The scope of a repository is shown in Figure 10.4. The repository should be capable of dealing with the definition of multiple object types with differing properties and complex relationships. It should provide facilities to handle multiple names for objects in a controlled manner. It should support such things as database design and code generation. It should be possible to partition the repository ...

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