With the commercialization of the Internet, and the endless variety of products offered over it, consumers too are displaying greater confidence in this electronic cash. This program explains the basic principles, applications and technology of electronic monetary exchange and describes how businesses can implement and maintain an effective program. It also discusses how information should be organized to allow appropriate access, sharing and security for all areas of business. An accurate and comprehensive enterprise-wide data model can bring enormous value to an organization. It not only facilitates faster building of better systems, it can serve as the cornerstone of business process re-engineering activities, the development of systems and information architectures, and information engineering efforts.
Data modeling on such a scope, however, brings with it a complex set of problems and challenges.
This program discusses the benefits of enterprise-wide data models, describes the nature of the model, and discusses the major issues involved in development. The program reviews the purpose of data modeling, describes the methods used to capture and represent business data, discusses how the scope of the modeling effort affects the process, describes the activities involved in the process, and describes the roles of the individuals involved in the data modeling effort. The advent of high speed networks, sophisticated switching and routing techniques, the Internet, and the applications that stretch the capabilities of these technologies have made network systems management a process that requires a disciplined approach. Enterprise Management of Networks and Systems provides this disciplined approach. This six-part series describes the strategies, techniques and technologies that comprise Enterprise Management of Networks and Systems.