March 7, 2007

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Level: Intermediate

This presentation recounts work done at General Motors in the area of data pattern identification and use. GM has developed an extensive catalog of data patterns to facilitate work effort in integrating data across the GM enterprise. The patterns help drive semantic reasoning and determine information appropriateness for integration. In addition, the data patterns are also used to derive work effort and costing associated with information integration initiatives.

• The IT integration imperative
• Fact, fiction, and reality
• Semantic disintegrity propagation
• Data pattern examples

Neal Fishman focuses on complex integration efforts within IBM. Co-author of the textbook “Enterprise Architecture Using the Zachman Framework.” Former member of the Business Rules Group and the IDEFobject Standards Committee.

Glen Birrell is GM’s Director of Global Data Management with responsibility for influencing all data initiatives. Glen has over 28 years of experience on high transaction IT systems in the manufacturing, financial services, and insurance industries.