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Tutorial Abstract: An Introduction to XML for Data Management
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is the third great technology of the 1990s moving us into the Information Age – the Internet and Java being the first two technologies. This one-day tutorial seminar for data management professionals provides a comprehensive introduction to XML and to the related Extensible Style Language (XSL) and Extensible Linking Language (XLL). It provides a detailed overview that shows how XML uses Metadata to describe the content, structure and business rules of any document or database. No data management professional can afford to ignore XML; knowledge of XML will be essential for your success in the competitive years ahead.
XML is an open architecture metadata capability for integration of structured data in relational databases with data in legacy systems and files. It enables that legacy to be migrated seamlessly into future applications. It integrates this structured data also with unstructured data in text documents, reports, email, graphics, images, audio and video files to present new application and knowledge management opportunities for the new millennium. For example, XML, XSL and XLL allow the easy integration of dissimilar systems for multiple worldwide customers and suppliers in any industry. It permits the ready integration of those systems, regardless of whether they are legacy systems and databases, current EDI systems or Electronic Commerce.
XML is also used to build Corporate Portals or Enterprise Portals, the next evolutionary step for Data Warehouses and Data Marts. XML sets the technology direction for Metadata, Data Management, Business Rules and Systems Reengineering. XML will become a vital technology for Systems Development.
- What are XML, XSL and XLL? Why are they important? How are they used?
- What is the role of XML in the Internet, Intranets and Extranets?
- How will legacy systems integration be transformed by XML?
- What is the role of CASE tools for XML Implementation?
- Typical XML applications and their use of Metadata.
- What are the business opportunities opened up by XML?
- How is XML used in conjunction with Enterprise Portals?
Audience: CIOs, IT Managers, DAs, DBAs, Business Analysts, Systems Analysts
Clive Finkelstein, acknowledged worldwide as the "Father" of Information Engineering, is Managing Director of Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd in Australia. He is the Chief Scientist of Visible Systems Corporation in the USA and is Managing Director of Visible Systems Australia Pty Ltd. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of DAMA International and has over 38 years' experience in the Computer Industry.
Clive is the author of the first publication on Information Engineering: a series of six InDepth articles in US ComputerWorld in May - June 1981. He co-authored with James Martin the influential two-volume report titled: "Information Engineering", published by the Savant Institute in Nov 1981. At that time IE was an IT-driven methodology. He has since developed the business-driven variant of IE – enhancing it further as Enterprise Engineering – and has written two later books. The first is "An Introduction to Information Engineering", Addison-Wesley (1989). The second is "Information Engineering: Strategic Systems Development", Addison-Wesley (1992).
These books draw directly on the knowledge of business experts and IT staff, so enabling organizations to gain competitive advantage using Enterprise Engineering to move to Data Warehouse and Internet / Intranet / Extranet technologies. He has published many papers throughout the world and contributed Chapters and Forewords to books published by McGraw-Hill ["Software Engineering Productivity Handbook" (1992) and Foreword: "Data Reverse Engineering", Peter Aiken (1996)], and by Springer-Verlag ["Handbook on Architecture of Information Systems" (1998)]. His latest book, co-authored with Peter Aiken, is titled: "Building Corporate Portals with XML", published by McGraw-Hill in September 1999.