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Chapter 15.1 The System of Record Abstract At the heart of all data processing is the need to believe the data on which one is o ...

Fig. 15.1.1 Step 1—end user cycle of awareness. The end user's instincts tell him/her that the most important thing is to get th ...

now looks at the data. The end user decides the data can be simplified and organized differently. The data can be visualized. So ...

Fig. 15.1.4 Step 4—end user cycle of awareness. The System of Record In order to illustrate the insidious nature of step 4, supp ...

Fig. 15.1.5 Data integrity. The System of Record in the End State Architecture The system of record is a living organism that is ...

Fig. 15.1.6 Simplified end state architecture. While there are more components to the end-state architecture than those shown in ...

Fig. 15.1.7 Different structures of data. Fig. 15.1.7 shows that part of the system of record exists in the application environm ...

Fig. 15.1.8 The system of record changes location as data ages. In the application environment are found the current value data. ...

As a simple example of system of record data, suppose you want to find out what your account balance is right now. You go to the ...

Fig. 15.1.9 Transformation. The transformation of data as they move from the application environment to the data warehouse envir ...

confidence in the data, data from the system of record should be chosen. To use an analogy. Suppose you wanted to enter a car ra ...

The data warehouse environment is different. New records can be placed in the data warehouse. For example, there may be a record ...

Fig. 15.1.12 What about detailed and summary data? However, when summary data are held in the system of record, there is an extr ...

Fig. 15.1.13 The role of documentation. Auditing Data and the System of Record The system of record is useful for many purposes. ...

Fig. 15.1.14 Auditing. Text and the System of Record An interesting issue is as follows: where does text fit into the system of ...

Fig. 15.1.15 Where does text fit? Chapter 15.1: The System of Record ...

Chapter 16.1 Business Value and the End-State Architecture Abstract There are very different degrees of business value that can ...

Fig. 16.1.1 A typical order in which the end state architecture is built. The first part of the end-state architecture to be bui ...

Finally, textual data are gathered from raw text and are incorporated into the infrastructure. In such a fashion, the corporatio ...

Fig. 16.1.2 The business value is different at each stage of development. Tactical Business Value/Strategic Business Value In ge ...