March 7, 2007

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Level: Intermediate

SoX and BASEL II have made painfully obvious that there is no "single version of the truth" to describe lineage for an organization, nor to correctly identify impacts due to change. At its core, lineage (impact) analysis is multi-concurrent development milestone infested and requires configuration managed support for change. This session goes beyond the usual "single" "enterprise architecture" "version of the truth" to analyze the soft underbelly of metadata management in the post-modern metadata world: a world with a wide array metadata sources and targets, gaggles of formats and APIs for exchange, a myriad of versions of systems being concurrently "tweaked" (and out-right modified), and an army of one (or a few good) data administrator trying to merely get accurate lineage reports.