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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.

Rear Jacket Material

Most of the formalized knowledge of data reengineering has been closely held by consulting organizations and thus few professionals understand the process of reclaiming data assets from their existing systems and preparing it as part of reengineering efforts. For the first time, this guide to data reverse engineering puts this knowledge into the public arena by explaining data's role in reengineering. The text covers aspects of evaluating investing in data reverse engineering projects, project management, personnel issues explaining the process from identifying candidate systems to putting the project outputs to work in other, related reengineering projects.

Drawn from his experience as the Reverse Engineering Program Manager for the US Department of Defense, the guide is written in down-to-earth language, the guide takes readers step by step through the data reverse engineering process including enough contextual material to make the guide understandable by knowledge executives as well as useful to technical personnel. Tables, diagrams, and other graphical models offer clarification at a glance while case studies put the guide into real life context.

Peter Aiken is with the Department of Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University and is a Computer Scientist for the Defense Information Systems Agency's Center for Information Management.

• 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.