First there were internal financial statements and management reports, which were difficult enough. Then different external stakeholders required "performance" reports. Now there are more and more reports needed to demonstrate compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements (Sarbanes-Oxley; Basel II, etc.).

Unfortunately, most enterprises treat every new requirement as a brand new report that must be developed and produced independently - the result is increased operational and maintenance burden and reporting chaos.

It doesn't have to be that difficult or complex. This presentation describes using enterprise metadata to simplify, govern and enable compliance reporting - the result is an integrated, strategically-driven, architecture-based, reporting environment that can efficiently produce a myriad of compliance reports and flexibly react to new and changing requirements.

Mr. Perkins has over thirty years of business and information management experience - Systems Analyst on the White House staff, Director of the US Army Data Processing School in Germany, Vice President of Research and Development for a virtual corporation, and General Manager of a high-tech consulting firm. He has provided information and enterprise management consulting to numerous companies, associations and government agencies.

In his current role as Chief Solutions Architect for Rochade/becubic (ASG Software Solutions), Mr. Perkins is responsible for development of metadata management solutions for a diverse set of large international customers - commercial and government.