Written by over 120 data management practitioners, the DAMA Guide to the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DAMA-DMBOK) is the most impressive compilation of data management principals and best practices, ever assembled. It provides data management and IT professionals, executives, knowledge workers, educators, and researchers with a framework to manage their data and mature their information infrastructure. The equivalent of the PMBOK or the BABOK, the DAMA-DMBOK provides information on: Data Governance Data Architecture Management Data Development Database Operations Management Data Security Management Reference & Master Data Management Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence Management Document & Content Management Meta Data Management Data Quality Management Professional Development As an authoritative introduction to data management, the goals of the DAMA-DMBOK Guide are: To build consensus for a generally applicable view of data management functions. To provide standard definitions for commonly used data management functions, deliverables, roles, and other terminology. To document guiding principles for data management. To present a vendor-neutral overview to commonly accepted good practices, widely adopted methods and techniques, and significant alternative approaches. To clarify the scope and boundaries of data management. To act as a reference which guides readers to additional resources for further understanding. The Editors are Mark Mosley, Editor - Development, Michael Brackett, Editor - Production, Susan Early, Assistant Editor, and Deborah Henderson, Project Sponsor. The Foreword is by John Zachman (DAMA I Lifetime Achievement Award recipient), the Preface is by John Schley (DAMA International President) and Deborah Henderson (DAMA Foundation President, DAMA International VP Education and Research), and the Afterword is by Michael Brackett (DAMA International Lifetime Achievement Award recipient).