XML in Data Management: Strategic Implications
and Implementations
2 Day Seminar
Endorsed
by
DAMA INTERNATIONAL
UK Chapter
Speaker:
Peter Aiken
"Enjoyable
and challenging. Well presented and good coverage of key themes."
Indi Liepa, Information Architect, Nokia
"Very
enthusiastic presentations"
Michael Poerschke, IT Manager, Unilever NV
"Clearly
on top of his topic"
Mark Connolly, IT Audit Manager, Electricity Supply Board
"Very
enthusiastic" Graham Disselduff, Disselduff Ltd
CIO
CTO
IT Manager
IT Consultant
Systems Analyst
Systems Manager
Systems Developer
Project Manager
Enterprise
Architect
Data Architect
Project
Manager
Business
Analyst
Data Manager
and anyone who is responsible
for understanding the incorporation of strategies in technology implementation.
This seminar assumes no prior knowledge of XML and teaches XML concepts
but does not teach XML
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Focuses on XML
'the business case,' cost cutting methods, and results for those who
are getting started with XML and want to implement tangible savings
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Cuts through
the XML "buzz" to deliver practical understanding of important
XML-based technologies for technology managers to apply in their respective
domains
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Contains sufficient
conceptual depth to appeal to experienced data architects, administrators,
and managers
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Presented in
a style that appeals to technology, application, software development
managers - each will understand how to apply XML most effectively
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Provides a comprehensive
overview of XML capabilities in an easy to understand format – allows
you to identify which XML components are required to address your
organizational challenges
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Features a specific
look at XML and its relationship to software application packages
ranging from ERPs (SAP, PeopleSoft, etc.) to XML's relationship with
your legacy applications and their possible reengineering
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Vividly illustrates
the power of XML-based integration architectures and methods
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Features many
real-life examples and lessons learned based on organizational best
practices and years of experience
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High levels of
delegate interaction – provides opportunities for your specific problems
and challenges to be addressed
This course is for those
who are getting started with XML and want to tangibly benefit from its implementation
– quickly. XML has transformed the technology implementation,
application development, enterprise application integration (EAI), and data
management practices for many organisations. While they are not choosing to
speak of it loudly, organisations are saving $100s of millions in development,
integration and data management costs because of XML-based implementation.
This seminar presents a clear look at the strengths and weakness of XML so that
you can most effectively benefit from the technologies. It will show you how
to quickly and easily focus your XML capabilities in ways that easily help.
You will learn how repeatable XML implementation will play an increasingly important
role in business and systems engineering.
How XML and technology
implementation are inextricably linked as "the" new way of delivering
solutions to enterprise capability challenges.
How the existing XML
component architecture ensures that it can provide the basis for solving many
forms organisational challenges – now and in the future.
Why XML enables organisations
to implement solutions that are solid foundations for future development and
not just the latest "silver bullet."
How XML can compliment
ERP initiatives and (in case you have not yet jumped onto the ERP bandwagon)
and how XML can help you save money on and better utilise your existing ERP.
Why XML is and will
continue to be the cornerstone of e-business and e-commerce - without it your
organisation cannot participate in this important business revolution.
How XML will cause us
to rethink the role of traditional data management technologies such as CASE
tool(s) and repositories. Our perception of these will change from methodology
specific monolithic applications to integrated utilities that far increase
organisational technology capabilities.
How the data management
group can develop and deliver complete information delivery solutions to organisational
clients - solving forever the "what have you done for me lately"
problem.
How organisations can
easily and tangibly profit (from reduction in the amount of legacy code requiring
management) from XML-based information delivery portals.
XML Basics
What XML is and what
it is not
How does its technological
format (a meta-language) provide organisations with a category of capabilities
that it otherwise couldn't access
XML Usage
What business problems
can XML solve
How complex is XML parsing
How do management capabilities
increase with XML implementation
How XML is being used
by organisations to save money, implement e-business and B2B initiatives,
appreciate and evolve legacy applications and build XML-based application
delivery.
XML Architecture
How does XML work from
an architectural perspective
Overview of XML Architectural
Components including: XML Elements, Attributes, Entities, DTDs, DOM, XSL,
RDF, XLink, Xpointer. More importantly, the seminar will describe how each
component provides organisations with significant and new technological capabilities.
XML Technologies
What types of XML-based
tools have been developed to assist in the development of XML applications
and other tasks (for example BizTalk, EB-XML, and – of course .net from Microsoft™).
How can these tools
be incorporated on a basic level to increase organisational dexterity as in
enterprise application integration, information marketplace hub interchange
models (such as Envera), and other, capability-focused areas
XML, Information Delivery, and Reengineering
What role will XML play
in an expanded definition of information delivery/management and what have
traditionally been two separate disciplines: business and systems reengineering.
This section explores the role of XML in the integration of business and systems
engineering. The requirements and promise for integration of management of
unstructured data becomes a significant new capability to be integrated with
more effective use of traditional organisational technological capabilities.
These point to more flexible and adaptable information management challenges
and associated technologies that must be mastered by organisational technology
managers.
XML Technologies
What are the XML-based
implications for organizational CASE tool(s), metadata management, and repository
usage
How can these technologies
play a role in XML implementation and specifically in structural data quality
analyses?
XML-based Portal
Technology
How do XML-based portals
give managers the ability to leverage advanced XML and Inter/Intranet technologies?
How investments in this
technology can be quantified conceptually.
How XML-based portals
can lead directly to tangible organisation cost savings using unconventional
data quality engineering methods using ERPs as integration platforms and as
knowledge management technologies
Peter Aiken
is the Chief Executive
Officer of the Institute for Data Research
and an Associate Professor of Information Systems, Virginia Commonwealth
University. He has worked with many organisations to help them form data
management strategies and evaluate the use of new technologies within
the area of data engineering and its relationship to systems and business
engineering. In 2001 he was awarded the DAMA International Achievement
Award and he has been a DAMA International Advisor since 1999. He is the
author of Data Reverse Engineering and Clive Finkelstein’s co-author
of Building Corporate Portals Using XML (McGraw-Hill 1996/99).
A new collaboration titled Achieving EAI with Service-Based Architectures
(ISBN: 0471415154) is scheduled for publication by John Wiley in 2002.
