Establishing Enterprise Data Standards - High-Performance Web Databases: Design, Development, and Deployment - page 17

Exhibit 2-6. User interface category.

Subcategory Comments

Screens: Include field sizes, field types, field objects

Help Screens
Menu Screens
Drop Down Menus
Information Screens
Transaction Screens
Reports: Include page headings, page footers, date, page

number, column headings, total columns

Project Plans
Status Reports
Issue Logs
Client Requests

Minimize number of SQL requests per transasction

Exhibit 7 also shows another approach that involves “creating” the data
standards because there are no satisfactory ones to be borrowed from
another source. The key for making this approach a success is to begin
with a framework that is similar to the exhibits shown previously. You will
probably want to modify the subcategories in the tables, or even to merge
or expand the number of tables that are shown. A champion in the organi-
zation, perhaps a business analyst, should then review other projects and
define a standard for each subcategory (e.g., all variable names must be

CREATE

Build
Data
Standards
(Draft)

BORROW

Practical
Data
Standards

Best Practices
/Proven
Standards

Review Team

Data
Standards
From
Vendors

Conduct Pilot
Project (s)

Customize or Expand
Data Standards

Monitor
Review
Enhance
Enforce

Standards
Organizations
(e.g. ANSI)

Enterprise
Data
Standards

Deploy Across the

Organization

Exhibit 2-7. Process for defining enterprise data standards.