InConcept Announces the Release of the December Issue of the JCM

From: Scot A. Becker <scotb_at_inconcept.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 01:23:54 GMT
Message-ID: <K0WY5.17153$1p2.1054309_at_typhoon.mn.mediaone.net>


Lake Elmo - December 10, 2000 - InConcept today announced the release of the December issue of the Journal of Conceptual Modeling (JCM).

Now on its seventeenth issue, the JCM is an online, free source of information related to conceptual modeling and computer system design. With articles on topics ranging from conceptual data modeling with Object-Role Modeling (ORM) to the Unified Modeling Language (UML), the JCM's distinguished list of industry experts continue to write cutting-edge topics in conceptual modeling.

This has to be one of the better JCM issues we have released. Dr. Terry Halpin provides us with a metamodel of the Barker ER Notation (the one implemented by Oracle). Patrick Hallock gives us a functionality wish list for ORM tools. Scot A. Becker talks a bit about Perspective and Abstraction. David Cuyler (JCM Rookie!) maps ORM into the UML metamodel. Daniel Roth (JCM Rookie!) provides us with a look at Practical Data Administration. And, as always, Dr. John Sharp provides us with another analysis problem as well as last issue's solution.

You can read the August issue - and all previous issues - of the JCM free-of-charge online at http://www.inconcept.com/JCM/.

About the Journal of Conceptual Modeling

The Journal of Conceptual Modeling is a free journal dedicated to data modeling, design, and implementation issues. The goal of this publication is to promote communication between professionals, share knowledge, and to educate our readers. The target audience is large: database professionals and developers, end users and business professionals, students and teachers, and anyone else using, developing, or considering development of a database system.

The Journal of Conceptual Modeling is a free publication sponsored and published by InConcept.

About InConcept, Inc.

InConcept is dedicated to excellence in data modeling. Placing an emphasis on the conceptual model using Object-Role Modeling (ORM), InConcept uses this higher level of design as a more suitable approach for review with business-oriented customers, while simultaneously using the logical and physical models, completely derivable from the conceptual model, for review with the technical staff. Modeling a database at the conceptual level significantly reduces design errors -- reducing overall cost -- while using ORM enables the designer and the business user to communicate and capture business rules more readily and easily.

InConcept's capable staff of ORM experts (certified by Dr. Terry Halpin, the founder of modern ORM, and recognized by Visio Corporation) comprise more than 50 years of practical experience using ORM to design data systems.

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http://www.inconcept.com/JCM/mailinglists.html#Press Releases. Received on Mon Dec 11 2000 - 02:23:54 CET

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