Service- and Component-based Development: Using Select Perspective™ and UML
by Hedley Apperly, Ralph Hofman, Steve Latchem, Barry Maybank, Barry McGibbon, David Piper, Chris Simons
Chapter 6. Data architecture
The value of a system to an organization is realized by the data that is stored and the ways that the system is able to manipulate and present it as information. Processes add value by changing the state of information. It is clear that information is the lifeblood of the organization: information is power. Despite the fundamental importance of information, organizations deal with it in different ways and at different levels and scales of working: component, organization, and solution.
At the smallest scale, which is the component scale, information managed by a specific business component may be stored using a database that is equally specific. When working at this scale, the data should not be central to the core ...
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