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Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository

A 2 Day Seminar

Speaker:

David Marco

"Excellent – real life information very useful. Held my interest for the whole 3 days. Surpassed my expectations."
Evelyn Curran, Technical Analyst, NSITE

"Very useful information/tips, which I can use in my work starting tomorrow and will improve the quality of my work and relationship with my customers."
Rinus Vrind, NCR

IT Directors
Data Architects
Enterprise Architects
Data Administrators
Database Administrators
Database Designers
Systems Analysts
Business Analysts
Project Managers

Meta data has become one of the hottest arenas in information technology today. Corporations have realised the value of meta data and the absolute need for it in order for their business to thrive in markets that are becoming more and more competitive.

Building a meta data repository is no longer an option, but an absolute requirement for corporations. Companies have realized that without meta data their information technology ("IT") departments cannot manage their systems and their systems are not providing true value to the business end user.

This practical course leverages the lessons learned from companies that have successfully deployed meta data repositories. The case studies demonstrate the importance of having a methodology for defining meta data requirements, capturing and integrating meta data, how to calculate return on investment ("ROI"), form a team, and develop a project plan, advanced meta data architectures, pulse-of-the-market analysis of meta data integration tool vendors, methodology for defining an attainable project scope, and a detailed walkthrough of a detailed meta data model.

You Will Construct Your Own Release 1.0 Meta Data Project Scope Document
Learn about highly successful meta data repository initiatives
Understand How to Construct Your Own Meta Model
Analyze Meta Data Tool Vendors
Understand and Build Your Own Weighted Tool Checklist
Developing a Meta Data Architecture
Understand How to Model Meta Data
Take Away a Generic Meta Model
Learn a full life-cycle methodology for implementing a meta data repository.
Understand how to define requirements that yield positive ROI.
Identify the challenges of implementing a meta data repository.
Understand how to build a meta data repository that is flexible to the changing technical marketplace

Understand what ROI companies are achieving with their meta data repository investments.
Current IT systems are highly inflexible and poorly understood. Meta data holds the key to reducing IT budgets and for creating a more adaptable IT environment.
Meta data provides the semantic layer between the decision support system and the business end users. This significantly enhances the value of the data warehouse/data marts to the business end users.
Meta data reduces IT budgets as the repository shrinks development cycles for initially growing and maintaining the data warehouse.
A meta data repository creates a more adaptable IT environment.
Gain competitive advantage by creating a meta data integration strategy for your company.
Save valuable time and money by understanding the challenges of implementing a meta data repository

What Makes This Seminar Unique
This seminar provides participants with in-depth understanding into data management. Through case studies and team interaction attendees will attain the real-world implementation skills necessary to build a successful meta data repository on the first implementation. In addition, it provides a look into how meta data is changing the way we implement all of our IT systems.

1. Understanding Meta Data

Analyze the Current State of the Meta Data Industry
Cutting through the meta data market hype
Defining meta data
Technical meta data
Business meta data

2. Challenges in the Meta Data Industry

Selling the Concept of Building a Meta Data Repository to Management (ROI)
Centralized, Decentralized, Bi-Directional, and Closed Loop meta data repository architectures
Active vs. Passive meta data

3. How to Implement a Meta Data Repository

Challenges of Implementing a Meta Data Repository
Keys to a Sound Meta Data Architecture
How to tie the data warehouse architecture to the meta data repository architecture
Defining Meta Data Requirements
Identifying Sources of Meta Data
Integrating Sources of Meta Data
Accessing the Meta Data Repository
Approaches to Meta Data Development
Meta Model Walkthrough (relational & object)
Creating the Meta Data Repository Team
Meta Data Repository Team Role Walkthroughs
Creating the Meta Data Project Plan
Meta Data ROI Definition
Constructing the Meta Data Scope Document
Create a Meta Data Integration Strategy for your Company
Meta Data Delivery

4. Understanding the Key Meta Data Vendors

Evaluating Meta Data Tools (integration and access)
Real-world analysis of meta data tool vendors

5. Understand the Power of Meta Data

Case Studies of Real-World Meta Data Repository Initiatives With ROI Measurements
Meta Data Above and Beyond Data Warehousing
Future Direction of Meta Data
XML

Meta Data Repository Cover
All delegates will receive a free copy of the book as well as the seminar documentation
Descriptions and Ordering from AMAZON

David Marco

David Marco is an internationally recognized expert in the field of data warehousing, e-business, XML, business intelligence, and is the industry’s leading authority on meta data. He is the author of the book "Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository" (John Wiley & Sons, July 2000). This groundbreaking book has been broadly endorsed by many of the largest software companies in the industry and by several major magazines. In addition, he is the editor of Real-World Decision Support a widely read electronic newsletter that focuses on business intelligence and e-business topics (www.EWSolutions.com/newsletter.asp). Mr. Marco has published over 70 articles and is a columnist for Application Development Trends magazine, Database Trends magazine, DM Review magazine and is a judge in their 1998 - 2001 World-Class Solutions awards.

Mr. Marco is a highly sought after speaker as his keynote addresses and courses can be heard at all of the major data warehousing conferences throughout the world. He also cosponsors with the University of Chicago and Penn State University a certified series of courses on data warehousing and business intelligence. Mr. Marco is the founder and President of the Chicago-headquartered Enterprise Warehousing Solutions, Inc. a strategic partner and systems integrator dedicated to providing clients with best-in-class business intelligence solutions using data warehousing technologies. At Enterprise Warehousing Solutions, Inc. he serves clients as an architect, project manager, meta data manager, and has provided the vision and strategy across multiple project teams for numerous successful data warehousing projects.