ABSTRACT
Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................... 428 Cataloging Decision Assets ................................................................................429 MDM and Decision Models .............................................................................429 Decision Metadata ........................................................................................... 430 Representing Physical Decision Metadata ......................................................... 430 Linking Decision Models ..................................................................................431 Decisions as Transactions ...................................................................................432 Covering the Decision .......................................................................................433 Physical Decision Models and Metadata ........................................................... 434 Decision Resources ............................................................................................435 Resource Considerations ...................................................................................436 Resource Profiles for Conditions .......................................................................437 Resources and Representations in Physical Decision Models .............................437 Calculating a Discount Business Decision .........................................................437 Decision Models as Aspect Maps .......................................................................438 Decision Models as a Transaction Map across Enterprise Resources ...................439 Summary .......................................................................................................... 440
Introduction In Figure 1.2 (Chapter 1) a comparison was made between Decision Models and data modeling techniques. The discipline of describing data has for quite some time taken two distinct routes: the logical and the physical. Appropriately, the logical models of data lend themselves to depicting inherent data relationships, dependencies, and constraints. Physical models also add a distinct flavor by incorporating physical characteristics of the data such as data type and length. However, as database administrators (DBAs) can attest, there are additional technological features such as indexes that make the physical implementation of the data model a working database.
