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Gessford, John Evans.

How to build business-wide databases - New York : Wiley, c1991. - vii, 424 p. : ill. ;

Includes Index.

METHOD OF APPROACH; The Information Systems Management Opportunity; The Entity-Relationship Model; Entity-Relationship Design Guidelines; Functional Modeling; Top-Down Database Planning; APPLICATION OF THE METHODOLOGY; Marketing; Materials Management; Production Management; Engineering; Financial Management; Information Systems Management; IMPLICATIONS: PLANNING INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; View Integration; Distributed Database Planning; Effects on System Development;

Shows MIS managers, database administrators and information managers how to standardize how data is organized in their businesses. The book shows how to establish common information structures across different parts of a business, such as marketing, materials management, production and personnel

ISBN: 9780471532279 0471532274 (alk. paper)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Business
Information storage and retrieval systems
Database management.

Dewey Class. No.: 005.74 / GES