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2003 Wilshire Award for Best Practices in Meta Data Management |
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AWARD WINNERS
Winners of the second annual “Wilshire Award” recognizing best practices in Meta Data management were announced on Monday, April 21, 2003. The award is given to a corporate data organization to recognize business value, innovation, and excellence in design and/or implementation of meta data as a critical component in data management success.
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Practices Awards Give Corporate Wilshire Conferences, Inc. and DM Review magazine today announced the winners of the second annual Wilshire Awards for Meta Data Best Practices. The award, which is co-sponsored by the two organizations, is given to leading corporate practitioners to recognize excellence in meta data management. The primary award – the Outstanding Enterprise Meta Data Implementation – was given to BellSouth Corporation, of Atlanta, Georgia. Allstate Insurance Company of Northbrook, Illinois received the top award for Outstanding Data Warehouse Meta Data Implementation. Additional awards for Highly Commended Meta Data Implementation were given to United Parcel Service and Abbey National plc. Recognition was also given to additional award finalists from Fleet Bank, HQ Air Mobility Command, Thomson Learning and Workers Compensation Board of Alberta. All of the submissions from the winners and finalists, as well as the judges comments, including strengths, weaknesses and follow up questions, can be viewed from the links below.
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JUDGES Ron
Powell Robert
S. Seiner David
Hay Terry
Moriarty Sid
Adelman Mike
Jennings Karen
Lopez Todd
Moore Tony
Shaw |
In commending the award winners, the publisher of DM Review, Ron Powell, said "The winners of the Meta Data Best Practices Award have demonstrated they understand the true business leverage gained from effective meta data management. They’ve also shown they are capable of realizing that leverage through innovation, management commitment, and of course, hard work."
Acknowledging the award, R. Todd Stephens, BellSouth’s Director of Metadata Services Group, reiterated the importance of the meta data strategy at his organization: “BellSouth is delighted to have won this year's Enterprise Meta Data award. Over the past three years, we have dedicated ourselves to building a repository collection that delivers true business value to the enterprise. Metadata is an imperative to building an enterprise environment and I can't see any organization being successful without a solid metadata strategy. This award is really a reflection of the dedication, commitment and never-ending focus of the individuals that make up BellSouth's Metadata Services Group.”
Chairman of the judging panel, Tony Shaw of Wilshire Conferences, remarked on the closeness of the judging: “The quality and quantity of nominations was remarkable this year, resulting in very tough competition. The judging was very close. I think it’s evident that management of corporate meta data is an increasingly important priority for organizations in all sectors, and this was reflected in the high quality of the submissions we received.”
What was it that set the winners apart? According to Shaw, the leading companies demonstrated substantial ROI, and proved the biggest meta data impact across enterprise IT assets. Among the judges, Robert Seiner, publisher of TDAN.com and founder of KIK Consulting, said “BellSouth’s meta data program is among the best organized I have seen. It has a strong management team and is producing well-defined benefits.” Karen Lopez, president of InfoAdvisors, said “the senior management support and commitment at BellSouth is evident. The meta data ROI is clearly enabled by that commitment.”
The judges selected Allstate Insurance to receive the Outstanding Data Warehouse Meta Data Implementation award on the strength of its homegrown codes management solution. Award judge Sid Adelman of Sid Adelman & Associates complimented many aspects of Allstate’s meta data program, including “good reuse, the stewardship is well done, and they have employed an interesting use of meta data to communicate requirements to outside data vendors.” Linda Hall, Systems Director, Enterprise Data Services at Allstate said: “We are extremely gratified to have won the Wilshire award this year. This is great validation of the effort Allstate has put into the development and implementation of Warehouse Metadata to enable our business initiatives.”
Presentation of the Wilshire Award will take place on April 30, 2003 at the Wilshire Meta-Data Conference & DAMA Symposium, in Orlando, Florida. Ron Powell, of DM Review magazine, and co-sponsor of the award, will make the presentation.
About the Wilshire Award for Meta Data Best Practices
The Wilshire Award is an annual award to a nominated organization which, in the opinion of the judges, best demonstrates business benefits and technical excellence in the implementation of a meta data-based IT solution. The Award was inaugurated in 2002 and is given to corporate practitioners (not to vendor companies). The judges of the Award are:
- Ron Powell, Publisher, DM Review
- Sid Adelman, Founder, Sid Adelman & Associates
- David Hay, President, Essential Strategies
- Mike Jennings, HRe Technology, Data Warehousing & Architecture, Hewitt Associates
- Karen Lopez, President, InfoAdvisors
- Todd Moore, Project Manager – Metadata Management, RBC Financial Group
- Terry Moriarty, President, Inastrol
- Patrick O’Brien, Partner, Orbtech
- Robert S. Seiner, Founder, KIK Consulting and Publisher, TDAN.com
- Tony Shaw, Chairman, Wilshire Conferences
The judging process, which takes approximately 3-months, requires that companies submit a 2500-word nomination, followed by two rounds of judging. Additional questions are posed to the finalists following the first round of eliminations. Further information can be obtained from Tony Shaw of Wilshire Conferences, at 310-477-4475 ext 102 or tony@wilshireconferences.com.
About the Wilshire Meta-Data Conference + DAMA International Symposium
The Wilshire Meta-Data Conference + DAMA International Symposium is the single largest vendor-neutral data management event in the world. This authoritative industry forum attracts over 1000 data management professionals from more than 20 countries to exchange ideas, experiences and lessons learned. Among the 130+ educational sessions at this year’s conference are Keynote Speakers such as John Ladley and Graeme Simsion, enterprise architecture pioneer John Zachman, and Dublin Core metadata guru, Stu Weibel.
For more information on this event and to view the complete agenda please visit www.wilshireconferences.com/MD2003. For registration and other questions please contact Sylvie Scoville at Sylvie@wilshireconferences.com or (310) 477-4475 ext 100.
About Wilshire Conferences
Wilshire
Conferences, Inc., headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, sponsors and organizes
educational conferences for information technology professionals, primarily
in the areas of data management and application development, including
the annual Wilshire Meta-Data Conference, and EDF:
The Enterprise Data Forum. Wilshire’s philosophy is
that the most effective educational environment is one which provides
for a high degree of interaction and shared experience between professional
peers, industry experts, and technology developers.
www.wilshireconferences.com
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