Workshop - 13 July 2006

CDI-MDM Workshop • Agenda
13 July 2006 • Royal Garden Hotel • London

Aaron Zornes Aaron Zornes
Chief Research Officer
The CDI Institute

Here's a rare chance to improve your success as a CIO, CTO or other IT professional embarking upon your first CDI or MDM initiative. During your focused training, you'll learn the best practises every IT professional must know to fast-track success and minimise risk. This is your pre-conference opportunity to ask the questions and set your own personalized agenda to maximise your conference experience the following day. Combining presentations, small group discussions, and case studies, the CDI-MDM Boot Camp’s proven agenda is practical, personal, and uniquely tailored to the needs of the participants.

0800-0900 • Registration

0900-1030 • CDI-MDM Strategic Planning Assumptions

  • Business imperatives 2006-07
  • Technical challenges 2006-07
  • Deployment strategies
  • Justification strategies
  • CDI futures

1100-1200 • CDI-MDM Evaluation Criteria

  • Review of “top 10” evaluation criteria in use by large IT organisations
  • Review of architectural options

1300-1400 • CDI-MDM Case Studies

  • Review of requirements on industry “use case” basis

1430-1530 • CDI-MDM Field Reports – Software Vendors

  • Data Foundations, i2 MDM, IBM WebSphere Customer Center, Initiate Systems Identity Hub, Oracle Customer Data Hub, Oracle-Siebel Universal Customer Master, SAP Master Data Management, SAS/DataFlux, Purisma Customer Registry, Siperian MRM

1600-1700 • CDI-MDM Field Reports – Systems Integrators

  • Accenture, BearingPoint, BusinessEdge, Cognizant, IBM BCS, Deloitte, Knightsbridge, Tata, …

1700-1730 • Q&A and Wrap-Up

1730-1900 • Drinks Reception (Sponsored by Trillium Software) & Exhibits

Intended audience: CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, data architects, integration architects, VPs/ Directors of IT, data stewards, data quality analysts. Ideal for IT managers who are charged with evaluating one or more CDI-MDM providers and who need a quick ramp up on the technology options, the vendor landscape, strategic planning assumptions, and overall best practises in delivering CDI-MDM solutions.

"Aaron's research was a critical component of our CDI solution decision. It is very important to have an objective view of how to handle the issue of master data consolidation.”

Thomas Hannigan, Director Sales & Marketing Informatics, Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc.

“Aaron Zornes’ provided us with high quality and timely feedback on potential System Integrators with the CDI experience we need. This was especially helpful since real-world CDI experience is not easily found in the marketplace.”

Mike Overby, MBA, PMP, CLU, Manager, Information Systems, COUNTRY Insurance & Financial Services

Aaron Zornes, Chief Research Officer, The CDI Institute
Aaron Zornes is the founder and chief research officer for The CDI Institute. Mr. Zornes is a noted speaker and author on Global 2000 enterprise IT issues and is the most quoted industry analyst on the topics of customer data integration’ (CDI) and master data management (MDM). Mr. Zornes is also the editor and lead contributor to DM Review’s CDI Newsletter as well as the monthly columnist for both master data management and CDI. Prior to founding the CDI Institute, he was founder and executive VP of META Group’s largest research advisory practice for 15 years. Mr. Zornes also held line and strategic management roles in leading vendor and user organizations, including executive and managerial positions at Ingres Corp., Wang, Software AG of North America, and Cincom Systems. Mr. Zornes received his M.S. in Management Information Systems from University of Arizona.