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Data Reverse Engineering:
Slaying the Legacy Dragon
(ISBN 0-07-000748-9)

"Anyone charged with developing a migration strategy from one application environment to another will find this book useful." - Terry Moriarty

by Peter Aiken is available now direct from a number of online bookstores including Amazon.com and McGraw-Hill (1-800-822-8158) and at neighborhood book stores. (If you are having trouble finding a copy, click here to have ACSES perform an electronic search.) This is the first book describing the process of recovering data architectures from existing information systems and using it to develop a foundation for enterprise integration and other reengineering efforts.

Table of Contents

PART 1 CONTEXT

Chapter 1 Three Data Reverse Engineering Strategies
Chapter 2 Definitions
Chapter 3 Organizational Data Issues
Chapter 4 Data Architectures
Chapter 5 Frequently Asked Questions

PART 2 ANALYSIS

Chapter 6 Project Initiation Activities (Part 1)
Chapter 7 Project Team Initiation
Chapter 8 Project Initiation Activities (Part 2)
Chapter 9 Target System Analysis
Chapter 10 Project Wrapup Activities
Chapter 11 Tool Support

PART 3 OUTPUTS

Chapter 12 Direct Outputs
Chapter 13 Indirect Outputs
Chapter 14 Data Architecture Specifications
Chapter 15 Enterprise Integration Information

PART 4 INVESTMENTS

Chapter 16 Estimating DRE Projects
Chapter 17 Evaluating Investment Opportunities
Chapter 18 CASE-Reengineering Symbiosis
Chapter 19 Implications for Client/Server Architecture Development
Chapter 20 DRE Trends and Research
Chapter 21 Reengineering's Indeterminate Results

References
Index

• view the
  • cover
  • examine the table of contents
  • read the foreword by Clive Finkelstein
  • read the "The Necessity of Data Reverse Engineering" by Elliot J. Chikofsky
  • turn the book over and read the rear jacket material
• check out a data reengineering case study
• learn more about the Reengineering Bibiography
• inquire about the author's background
• check out one of many web-based reengineering collections
• read about the adoption and supplemental materials
• contact the author
• purchase this and other data reengineering books from my bookstore (run in association with Amazon.com)
• return to Peter Aiken's home page or visit Clive Finkelstein's Information Engineering Home Page.