10:30 am - 11:30 am &
For the first time at this conference (and perhaps anywhere) most of the major metadata vendors will provide a speaker/panelist for this extensive discussion of metadata integration. These are the people and companies who are responsible for making interoperability possible between their disparate tools. In this panel of (mostly) tool developers, we will learn how each one approaches the metadata component of their system and how they make it available to other vendor tools. We all know that the available solutions are not perfect yet, so what are the challenges and opportunities as the vendors see them, and what can you as the customer expect to see in future software releases and build-outs?
VENDOR PANELISTS
Geoff Sherwood
Senior Consultant, Adaptive Repository
Adaptive
Scott McCurdy
VP of Solution Platform
ASG - Rochade
Awez Syed
Director, Product Management
Business Objects
Danny Sandwell
Product Manager, Erwin
CA
Rachel Bland
Product Manager, Metadata and Modeling
Cognos
Greg Keller
Vice President, Product Management
Embarcadero
Nathan Bobbin
Product Manager, Metadata Services
IBM
Marc Bourget, Product Manager
Metadata Services
Informatica
John P. A. Verhaeg
Principal Software Engineer
MetaMatrix
Donald Farmer
Group Program Manager, SQL Server BI - Integration Services
Microsoft
Steve Long
Product Manager, Meta Data Services
NCR
Joseph Zheng
Director, Software Development, Oracle Warehouse Builder
Oracle
Liz McIntosh
Metadata Integration Technologies
SAS
Dave Dickman
Product Manager, PowerDesigner
Sybase