This print edition is also available in electronic PDF format on a CD (see ISBN 9780977140084).
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
- 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.