Identifying your source of record for your business entities
Once you have a skeleton semantic data model, the next step is to identify where the information comes from. It is important to try and identify all the potential sources for the entity, and equally important to identify the authoritative source of record. The authoritative source of record is the master of the information.
Getting ready
To identify the source of information, ask the business users where they source information for the reports. If these are new reports, look to key business systems for information, as a starting point.
How to do it...
It is important for the business to tell you what information it requires to support each business process, and the source that it considers ...
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