The DAMA Guide to the Data Management Body of Knowledge - Print Edition

Written by over 120 data management practitioners, the DAMA Guide to the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DAMA-DMBOK) is the most impressive compilation of data management principals and best practices, ever assembled. It provides data management and IT professionals, executives, knowledge workers, educators, and researchers with a framework to manage their data and mature their information infrastructure.

This print edition is also available in electronic PDF format on a CD (see ISBN 9780977140084).

The equivalent of the PMBOK or the BABOK, the DAMA-DMBOK provides information on:

• Data Governance
• Data Architecture Management
• Data Development
• Database Operations Management
• Data Security Management
• Reference & Master Data Management
• Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence Management
• Document & Content Management
• Meta Data Management
• Data Quality Management
• Professional Development

As an authoritative introduction to data management, the goals of the DAMA-DMBOK Guide are:

• To build consensus for a generally applicable view of data management functions.
• To provide standard definitions for commonly used data management functions, deliverables, roles, and other terminology.
• To document guiding principles for data management.
• To present a vendor-neutral overview to commonly accepted good practices, widely adopted methods and techniques, and significant alternative approaches.
• To clarify the scope and boundaries of data management.
• To act as a reference which guides readers to additional resources for further understanding.