Patterns of Information Management, Rough Cuts
- By Mandy Chessell, Harald Smith
- Published Apr 4, 2013 by IBM Press. Part of the IBM Press series.
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Description
- Copyright 2013
- Dimensions: 7" x 9"
- Pages: 500
- Edition: 1st
- Rough Cuts
- ISBN-10: 0-13-315554-4
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-315554-9
This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.
Use Best Practice Patterns to Understand and Architect Manageable, Efficient Information Supply Chains That Help You Leverage All Your Data and Knowledge
In the era of “Big Data,” information pervades every aspect of the organization. Therefore, architecting and managing it is a multi-disciplinary task. Now, two pioneering IBM® architects present proven architecture patterns that fully reflect this reality. Using their pattern language, you can accurately characterize the information issues associated with your own systems, and design solutions that succeed over both the short- and long-term.
Building on the analogy of a supply chain, Mandy Chessell and Harald C. Smith explain how information can be transformed, enriched, reconciled, redistributed, and utilized in even the most complex environments. Through a realistic, end-to-end case study, they help you blend overlapping information management, SOA, and BPM technologies that are often viewed as competitive.
Using this book’s patterns, you can integrate all levels of your architecture–from holistic, enterprise, system-level views down to low-level design elements. You can fully address key non-functional requirements such as the amount, quality, and pace of incoming data. Above all, you can create an IT landscape that is coherent, interconnected, efficient, effective, and manageable.
Coverage Includes
- Understanding how a pattern language can help you address key information management challenges
- Defining information strategy and governance for organizations and users
- Creating orderly information flows you can reuse and synchronize as needed
- Managing information structure, meaning, and lifecycles
- Providing for efficient information access and storage when deploying new IT capabilities
- Moving information efficiently and reliably to support your processes
- Determining how information should be processed and maintained
- Improving quality and accessibility, and supporting higher-value analytics
- Protecting information via validation, transformation, enrichment, correction, security, and monitoring
- Planning new information management projects in the context of your existing IT resources
Sample Content
Table of Contents
About the Authors xxix
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Islands of Information 1
Introducing MCHS Trading 2
Improving an Organization’s Information Management 4
Patterns and Pattern Languages 7
Basic Components in the Pattern Language 11
Information Integration and Distribution 12
Pattern Language Structure 15
Summary 22
Chapter 2 The MCHS Trading Case Study 25
Introduction 25
Building an Information Strategy 26
Creating Management Reports 28
Creating a Single View of Product Details 30
Creating a Single View of Customer Details 37
Understanding the Status of Orders 44
Delivering Information Quality Improvements 47
Connecting MCHS Trading into a B2B Trading Partnership 51
Exploiting Predictive Analytics 55
Summary of Case Study 67
Chapter 3 People and Organizations 69
Information Centric Organization Patterns 70
Information Centric Organization 73
Information Management Obligation 78
Information Management Strategy 81
Information Management Principle 83
Information Governance Program 88
Information User Patterns 91
Information User 92
Variations of the Information User Pattern 95
Summary 97
Chapter 4 Information Architecture 99
Information Element Patterns 100
Information Element 101
Entity-Level Information Elements 106
Information Asset 107
Information Activity 110
Information Event 113
Information Processing Variables 114
Information Summary 117
Message-Level Information Elements 119
Information Payload 119
Attribute-Level Information Elements 122
Information Link 123
Information Metric 124
Information Code 126
Summary of Information Elements 129
Information Identification Patterns 129
Information Identification 130