Download or read book Enterprise Data Architecture: How to navigate its landscape written by Dave Knifton and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you looking to make better use of data captured within your organisation or want to learn more about how Data Architecture can transform your operations? Answering these questions is at the very heart of Navigating the Data Architecture Landscape. By reading this book you will learn how to: Introduce or improve the Data Architecture function of your organisation Enhance your skills in this domain to deliver more from your data. You may be wondering how a book can do this if it knows nothing about where you are now, or where you want to be? It can, because by leveraging its principles you will discover how to create optimised potential routes to achieve your own Data Architectural objectives. Basic building blocks, concepts and models are defined, enabling you to create new or adapt existing frameworks appropriate for any data landscape. Practical tips and suggestions are also detailed throughout, helping you gain immediate improvements from the way you work and enhance the benefits your organisation can derive from its data. So if you are a Data Architect or deal with data in your organisation and want to learn how to transform the positive yield from its data, then this book is a must read for you! “David has been there and dealt with the issues, which is why this book is an outstanding resource for Data Architects and indeed anyone dealing with the serious challenges of an enterprise data landscape.” – Richard Rendell, Technical Services Director, AgeSmart “An essential read for anyone wishing to practically achieve more benefit from data for their organisation within today’s constraints.” – Reem Zahran - Director, Offering Development, IMS Health “This book provides a comprehensive set of tools enabling you to improve the business outcomes from your organisation’s use of data.” – Andrew Rowland, Global Head Database Engineering, UBS This book is an essential read for Data Architects or indeed anyone wanting to improve the benefit that their organisation can derive from its data usage. It does this by providing principles and models that are appropriate to use within any framework, or even the absence of one. The book is designed to be practical and contains many tips and suggestions as well as examples that can be used as the basis for the reader's own Data Architectural definitions. The breadth of the book covers contemporary themes for Data Architecture and the chapters include; Data Modelling, Enterprise Data Models, Data Governance, Master Data Management and Big Data