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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 from McGraw-Hill (1-800-822-8158) and at neighborhood book stores. 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.

Reengineering Bibliography

While researching this book, I compiled an extensive list of several hundred papers and other source material. I'm willing to make this available to other researchers. If you would like a copy, please send me a disk and indicate your prefered format (MS-Word [Windows or Macintosh] or ASCII text). Send the disk to me at

Peter Aiken c/o
Information Systems Research Institute
Department of Information Systems
School of Business
Virginia Commonwealth University
1015 Floyd Avenue, Suite 4178
Richmond, Virginia 23284-4000

I'll get the disk in the mail to you asap. In addition, I'm always interested in hearing from others in the field, research results, innovative techniques. Please feel free to contact me on these or any other research topics that may interest you.

• view the cover in more detail (its nicely done @ 38K)
• 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
• learn more about the Reengineering Bibiography
• view the author's background
• check out one of many web-based reengineering collections
• read about the adoption and supplemental materials
• view the author contact information.