March 6, 2007

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Level: Intermediate

Is metadata management the heart of your development lifecycle or is it just a hairpiece? In order to make meta data initiatives relevant you need to integrate metadata management into the development lifecycle and avoid projects that leave you with a glorified glossary or a second hand metadata junkyard.

Learn about a metadata management initiative that integrates metadata from analysis through implementation in a continuous lifecycle.

This encompasses

• Screen Design
• Service Oriented Architecture
• ETL
• XML Schema
• Data Dictionary
• Compliance Management
• Database Design

Creating a multi environment repository which is the focal point for the Development effort. This presentation will outline the approach and discuss implementation details along with the successes and lessons learned from this project.

Mark Standring is Senior Vice President of Data Architecture for Countrywide Financial. He established a single XML Interchange Standard for Countrywide and was one of the original members of the of the MISMO Mortgage XML Standard. He has spent the last twenty five years primarily in data related positions and the last ten developing and building systems at Countrywide. Mark has a Business Degree from the University of the South Bank, London.