Re: the distinction between data and intelligence
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:47:16 -0400
Message-Id: <k4cto2-erk.ln1_at_pluto.downsfam.net>
mountain man wrote:
> "Kenneth Downs" <knode.wants.this_at_see.sigblock> wrote in message
> news:inkqo2-ot2.ln1_at_pluto.downsfam.net...
>> mountain man wrote:
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>>> Organisation, owner, management, workgroups (including IT), users, >>> data, code and hardware. >> >> Now I would say that as far as computers go there is only data, code, and >> hardware.
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> Additionally, as you yourself have said on many occassions,
> there is also the specification. As you know, this specification
> will probably reference the organisation, owner, management,
> workgroups (including IT) and users.
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> There seems to be no reason not to reduce these things to
> data elements to be referenced by the database itself, and
> the code generator.
Right. We reduce all human elements to the specification element "group". For groups you specify insert/update/delete/select priveleges. The actual placement of users into groups is a userland tool.
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>> If we expand our view to include management, workgroups and so forth then >> we >> need to bring in products, services, assets, liabilities. The buzzwords >> at >> this point drift towards "synergistic information paradigms" but really >> it all comes down to rapid delivery of information, or, if you will, >> easily accessible records.
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> The buzzword is tables. I have always found that no matter
> how large the organisation that one is able to reduce its
> (internal organisational) structure to a helpful table.
Absolutely.
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> Data in this table is used for defining workgroups in
> the organisation, and for defining users to respective
> workgroups. It seems to be a natural mechanism by
> which menu and security access can be established
> at a workgroup level in simple terms.
Yup, that's how we do it.
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> Rapid delivery and accessibility is greatly enhanced
> and indeed _specialised_ in respect of workgroups.
yup.
-- Kenneth Downs Secure Data Software, Inc. (Ken)nneth_at_(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)Received on Fri Jun 24 2005 - 14:47:16 CEST