March 6, 2007

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Level: Intermediate

Intel recognized the need for an enterprise metadata container and implemented a repository to support data management. This presentation is a case study from Intel Corporation of how the metadata processes and the metadata repository are used to capture and show tangible evidence, in terms of $-value, that the productivity, governance, and alignment objectives of the enterprise architecture program are being realized. It includes a description of the metadata processes that support the creation and packaging of asset building blocks for work products and services. It also includes the philosophy and techniques for valuating and capturing reuse of these assets. It addresses the role of governance and the enterprise architecture framework, as well as the use of taxonomies to aid cataloging, administering, and searching for unstructured information resources, assets, and services. The presentation will discuss how the metadata repository is a key enabling technology for SOA by providing a discovery mechanism that enables consumers to find the reusable services that they need. Finally, it provides Intel’s experience about positive returns for the enterprise architecture program. Intel was recognized for its metadata program in 2004, when it received the Wilshire Award for Outstanding Metadata Implementation.

• Relationship between metadata, repository and architecture. How we tie each strategy together.
• Our federated repository approach.
• Our metadata and asset reuse framework methodology
• How we determine appropriate standard work products.
• How we are able to achieve buy-in from the Architecture community.
• How we align architecture work products to Enterprise Architecture.
• How metadata about services is captured in the repository, and utilized at design time by architects.
• How metadata and asset reuse is integrated with architecture governance.
• How the SOA repository improves programming productivity and increases re-use of software assets