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9TH ANNUAL Wilshire Meta-Data Conference AND THE 17TH ANNUAL DAMA International Symposium May 22-26, 2005 • Renaissance Orlando Resort at Seaworld • Orlando, Florida USA The World's Largest Vendor-Neutral Data Management Conference |
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AllFusion ERwin Data Modeler 4.1.x – Tips, Tricks & Suggestions Marcie Barkin Goodwin This SIG will focus on a discussion of CA’s AllFusion ERwin – its functionality as well as tips and suggestions to enhance the tool’s productivity. Facilitated by Marcie Barkin Goodwin, this SIG should elicit personal experiences of tips and shortcuts, as well as ‘Don’t Dos!’ from the audience. Come to learn, and come to share! This SIG has been very well attended and evaluated at every conference. AllFusion ERwin is the most widely used data modeling tool, and it seems that there's no lack of participants who not only want to learn about the tool and its functionality, but who are more than willing to share their experiences with the rest of the group! Speaker Biography The New Jersey Enterprise Information Architecvture and the Zachman Fraamework Dan Paolini An Enterprise Information Architecture (EIA) consists
of the organization's information architecture vision, goals, objectives,
policies, standards, tools and technologies, as well as the methodology
and the expertise to employ them. The creation of an EIA is a major
yet essential commitment to any long-term strategic initiative to
support an enterprise Speaker Biography He has presented eight keynotes and more than fifty technical papers at more than twenty conferences in North America and Europe on many diverse topics. Dan was a contributing editor for a monthly database magazine for three years as well as the technical editor for three database books. Dan is the Vice President for Standards for the DAMA International Foundation. He also serves as a moderator for the Data Architecture Professional Group. Dan has served more than thirty years as a volunteer firefighter, recently retiring as chief of his fire department. He has been honored several times for rescues and service. In his spare time he writes music and teaches Sunday School. SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS Lessons Learned from Sarbanes-Oxley -a Data Perspective Gwen Thomas The first round of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance is
over. Auditors have reviewed public company's finances, IT controls,
and data management processes. SOX-online.com, the Vendor-Neutral
Sarbanes-Oxley Site, has been providing information on the IT side
of SOX compliance since the early days when analysts insisted there
wasn't really much IT involvement in safeguarding financial data.
Hear SOX-online Editor Gwen Thomas review: This is no doom-and-gloom prediction. It's already happening; in August of 2004 alone 92 companies had to disclose problems. I've personally been told by reps from two of the Big 4 auditing companies that they feel they may have no choice but to fail about 10% of their clients -- and one of the top 4 reasons is a common data management issue. SOX-online.com monitors hundreds of publications, vendors, and analysts to stay on top of Sarbanes-Oxley developments. Here's a chance for attendees to get an up-to-date, vendor-neutral look at a critical topic. Speaker Biography Thomas has concentrated in recent years on helping companies implement governance/management frameworks and strategies as they align content and data systems, compliance frameworks, processes, and controls. She has provided educational sessions and/or consulting to companies such as Ford, Walt Disney World, Coors, Giant Eagle, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, Kennedy Space Center, and many Fortune 500 companies – often working in association with global systems integrators such as CIBER, Inc. DGI Press will publish two books by Thomas in spring of 2005: "What Every Business Manager Should Know About Making IT Decisions" and "IT Frameworks, Models, and Services for Non-technical Managers". Unleashing Legacy Data Peter Everitt Any data can be considered legacy data if knowledge about the data (meaning, context, dependencies, constraints, or business rules) is ambiguous - whether the data is years, months, or merely days old. To solve this problem, enterprises need a systematic approach to aggregating knowledge about data, validating it (identifying voids, inconsistencies and redundancies), visualizing it and, ultimately, making data more seamlessly reusable both internally and with third parties. This presentation will explain how enterprises can finally begin to realize the full potential of their information assets by turning their legacy data into information assets for their organization. SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS An Introduction to Eclipse and the Eclipse Modeling Framework Robert Kitzberger Eclipse is an open (and open source) platform
for tool integration. Eclipse has a broad scope, applicable to a
wide range of integrated tooling needs across application development
and data management roles. To date, over 18 million Eclipse downloads
have been satisfied and over 175 vendors have, or plan to have commercial
Eclipse-plug-ins with capabilities such as software configuration
management, database design, XML schema design, UML design, Java
development and debugging, testing tools, rules engines, etc. At
the core of Eclipse is a meta-data-driven framework for integration
- the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF). This is vender neutral - Eclipse is open source / open platform with many many contributing members, though may use IBM (and perhaps other) vendor implementations as examples to make the presentation concrete. Speaker Biography ER/Studio Users SIG Karen Lopez A great opportunity to share experiences with
other ER/Studio users. Topics will include: Speaker Biography PowerDesigner SIG Michael Nicewarner The PowerDesigner SIG provides an open forum to
discuss experiences and techniques with the most popular modeling
tool. We will talk about: This SIG was held last year for the first time, and it went over very well. The feedback was sent back to the vendor and many of the suggestions have already been implemented. The focus last year was on collecting suggestions. The focus this year will be on techniques and ideas to make better use of the product. Speaker Biography Fundamentals of the Capability Maturity Model Anne Marie Smith This presentation will outline the fundamentals
of process improvement, its place in the Total Quality Management
arena, the development of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), the
essential points of the CMM and a basic implementation process for
organizations who wish to incorporate software development and integration
best practices into their environments. In this presentation you
will learn: Speaker Biography Enterprise Architecture in ACTION! Derek Strauss Carl Gerber This presentation will show how the Southwest
Ohio DAMA Chapter utilizes an Enterprise Architecture to bring value
to members through improved chapter operations. John Zachman was
our 2003 DAMA Day keynote speaker and interest was high among the
chapter board to learn how to develop an Enterprise Architecture.
Thus, the timing and motivation was right for us to practice what
we preach. Benefits derived: What will the audience get from attending the
session? Copies of the Southwest Ohio Data Management Association Chapter’s Enterprise Architecture artifacts will be made available through our website. Speaker Biography Carl Gerber Electronic Health Record Strategy: Evaluating Metadata with a Web-based Registry LuAnn Whittenburg Marco Johnson The use of a Web-based Metadata Registry is a crucial tool to support cost and schedule strategies needed to plan, evaluate and compare Electronic Health Record (EHR) system requirements, capabilities and standards. Metadata describes the EHR selection and implementation requirements and documents the metadata solutions that most closely meet the documented needs. The United States Health Information Knowledgebase provides and maintains a metadata registry (based on ISO/IEC 11179) of health information data element definitions, values and information models that enable browsing, comparison, sychronization & harmonization within a uniform query and interface environment. The Knowledgebase also provides a viewpoint to examine Model relationships, overlaps and gaps. Speaker Biography Marco Johnson serves as the Information Management, Deputy Director, Operations, for the Chief Information Officer, of the $21 billion Defense Health Program for 8.9 million beneficiaries. Marco conducts all activities required to effectively and efficiently manage the organization's operations including web-based health metadata registries and associated net-centric technologies. SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS Ontologies: What are they and What should we
do? Click here for the Online Registration Form Questions
about attending? Call Wilshire Conferences
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