And now, standard pattern templates to kick-start your modeling project!
Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought, by David C. Hay, President of Essential Strategies, Inc., presents a comprehensive set of standard data model patterns for standard business situations. By using these model templates as a starting point, you can create a data model of your own organization in a fraction of the time it would take to do so from scratch. The book includes models of:

• people and organizations
• activities
• products
• contracts
• accounting
• manufacturing
• the laboratory
• document management

The book finishes up by describing more atomic standard models which are components of the functional models presented elsewhere. elsewhere.
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