What is Integrated Data Modeling?

Integrated Data Modeling is an enhancement to prior art disparate data modeling, where Integrated Data Modeling focuses upon developing integrated data models.  When integrated data models are database instantiated, they form integrated databases.  That is, integrated databases are designed with data access paths connecting them and enabling data from one integrated database to be dynamically and directly joined with data from other integrated databases.  Integrated Data Modeling is the foundation of Data Integration by Design methods.  Integrated Data Modeling may also be referred to as Data Architecture Modeling since integrated data models now show the interconnections between integrated data models and reflect the data access paths that promote the interoperability between integrated databases.

From our analysis of the Universal Data Architecture Standards, it has been determined that disparate data modeling is deficient for developing integrated databases in several important areas.  First, disparate data models are used to from disparate databases.  There is no direct interoperability designed between disparate databases.  Each disparate database is either an island of disparate data or a disparate information silo!  Second, each disparate data model design is independent of all other disparate data model designs because they lack both the metadata commonality and the data commonality required to integrate them.  Integrated Data Modeling employs boundary data entities as the basis of metadata commonality and data commonality for any integrated data model.   Third, disparate data models do not allow for data relationships between data models. Even if disparate data models were to have a proper set of metadata commonality and data commonality, there is still no way to relate or to connect these data models using data entity relationships.  For Integrated Data Modeling, an entirely new common entity relationship has been defined to link or connect data models.  These are the major data model deficiencies that we address, the more minor deficiencies will be left to a future time.

With Integrated Data Modeling, any data model that was produced before may still be produced, however, now a whole lot more is possible. Data Model integration is paramount to developing integrated databases.   Now instead of having databases that may only act in isolation, you may have databases that share functionality and that combine to become a harmonious data architecture.  Integrated databases may now become an important part of a data architecture that improves upon prior art data federation, improves upon prior art master data management and improves upon prior art data warehouses and data marts.  Integrated databases become your catalyst to correcting the flaws in current data architectures while providing for a greatly simplified and extremely more functional data architecture for your organization.

We alone are able to offer training for the Data Integration by Design methods, the Universal Data Architecture Standards, the Integrated Data Architecture, Integrated Data Modeling, and the Data Reintegration Methodology.  Contact us today!

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