Enterprise Data Modeling

The development of a common consistent view and understanding of data

elements and their relationships across the enterprise is referred to as
Enterprise Data Modeling. This type of data modeling provides access to
information scattered throughout an enterprise under the control of different
divisions or departments with different databases and data models.

Enterprise Data Modeling is sometimes called as global business model and

the entire information about the enterprise would be captured in the form of
entities.

Data Model Highlights

When a enterprise logical data model is transformed to a physical data

model, super types and sub types may not be as is. i.e. the logical and
physical structure of super types and sub types may be entirely different. A
data modeler has to change that according to the physical and reporting
requirement.

When a enterprise logical data model is transformed to a physical data

model, length of table names, column names etc may exceed the maximum
number of the characters allowed by the database. So a data modeler has to
manually edit that and change the physical names according to database or
organization’s standards.

One of the important things to note is the standardization of the data model.
Since a same attribute may be present in several entities, the attribute names
and data types should be standardized and a conformed dimension should be
used to connect to the same attribute present in several tables.

Standard Abbreviation document is a must so that all data structure names

would be consistent across the data model.

Enterprise Data Modeling Example: See Figure 1.4 below

Consider an example of a bank that contains different line of businesses like

savings, credit card, investment, loans and so on. In example, enterprise data
model contains all entities, attributes, relationships, from lines of businesses
savings, credit card, investment and loans.

Figure 1.4 : Example of Enterprise Data Model