Conference Chairs

META DATA:			Information Quality:
	Rosemary Rock-Evans RRE Associates			Larry P English INFORMATION IMPACT International Inc

DAMA International:
		Michael Brackett DAMA International

 META DATA: Rosemary Rock Evans, RRE Associates

Dear Colleague,

Thank you for your interest in this, the third European Conference dedicated to the subject of Meta Data. The extraordinary success of our first and second conferences, which attracted speakers and delegates from all over the world, has resulted in the co-location of the conference to include both DAMA and Information Quality Management Conferences. You will be able to choose from sessions on Meta Data, Information Quality and from the DAMA programme. We have also continued the successful approach we adopted last year whereby the first day offers you the opportunity to attend tutorials, which introduce the subject of Meta Data and Meta Data Management in some depth and provides a grounding for the following 2 days.

The programme we have chosen for you provides an unparalleled source of information on the state of the art of meta data management. It features a selection of international speakers from both the USA and Europe with a proven reputation both for their ability to inform and educate, but also entertain.

This conference is about the practicalities of meta data management. It also provides you with an unparalleled opportunity to meet not just the speakers in your area of interest, but also other delegates with their own problems, experiences and solutions. We have also carefully chosen our speakers so that they include both a mixture of vendor, independent consultants and end user speakers.

We all hope you will join us for what promises to be an exciting and immensely valuable experience. We look forward to seeing you in London in October.

Rosemary Rock Evans

About the META DATA Conference

This year we chose to organise the conference around the following key themes:

• Cost justifying meta data management/ROI/successfully implementing meta data management
• Meta model standards – particularly XML and meta data repository standards
• Integration – EAI, ETL, B2B communication, mergers and acquisitions, C2B and e-commerce as well as integration of tools and repositories

Cost justifying meta data management/ROI
The cost justification of the data management function has from the very early days been both a pre-occupation and challenge for data management professionals. Can the role of the data management function be explained to both IT developers and senior management with enough convincing evidence to obtain both the budget needed and the acceptance and commitment to make the function a success? Furthermore, is there a way of getting the same understanding and commitment from business users?

Our speakers will investigate this issue, offering proven and workable solutions which they have used to gain the commitment of both IT staff and end users.

Meta model standards – particularly XML and meta data repository standards
There are numerous standards which could be used for meta data. Over the past couple of years, however, the one standard around which the IT community has united is XML.

Our speakers will be explaining the importance of XML, its role as a meta data standard; XML schema definition tools; management of XML definitions, DTDs and schemas; ways of introducing XMl to an organisation; XML interchange; version control of XML schemas, DTDs etc; validation of XML; and the limitations of XML – security, bandwidth, stability, transmission times etc. and how to overcome them.

Integration – EAI, ETL, B2B communication, mergers and acquisitions, C2B and e-commerce
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is defined as "the process of integrating both new and 'legacy' (working) applications, built using diverse technologies, across a network connecting a company or companies, where the integration requires minimal or no change to the existing applications or data - a non intrusive approach". Integration between different parts of the business, between one business and another, between customers and your business or organisations and your business has become one of the major challenges facing many companies today.

Integration may be forced on a company because of a merger or acquisition; in some cases the integration may be needed to link trading partners, in others it may be to satisfy the statutory requirements of government bodies; in yet other cases some integration may be forced on a company because of the need to exchange data between previously stovepipe applications and packages.

Meta data is key to the success of any integration project whether it is intra business communication, inter-business communication (B2B), or consumer to business communication (C2B. Without a precise, complete description of the data, data cannot be exchanged between businesses, legacy applications cannot be integrated, and e-commerce fails to become a reality.

Our speakers will investigate the area of integration and the practical realities and mechanisms available to achieve integration as well as the pivotal role meta data plays in this.

Integration - of tools and repositories
Up until relatively recently, the emphasis of most users of tools and repositories, has been on trying to agree on standards for repositories, and standards for tools. These initiatives appear to have failed, - no common repository standard exists, nor do common tool standards. This is largely because many vendors perceive standards to be the enemy of profit, as standards mean there is no differentiator between products and products are sold by differentiation and lock in, not uniformity.

Our speakers will be exploring this apparent conflict of interests and discussing possible solutions to the problem, including the use of EAI architectures.

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About the fourth Annual Information Quality Conference

The Information Quality Conference will help you learn how to apply quality management and control principles to information - the Next Frontier of quality management. It provides case studies of organizations that have successfully implemented IQ processes as well as guidance from leading experts in information quality management.

Chair & Keynote Speaker: Larry P. English, Information Impact Int'l, Inc.

Featuring Quality Principles Applied to Information:

• ISO 9000
• EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) Excellence Model
• COPC-2000 Quality Standard for Call Centres
• Kaizen
• TQM
• Six Sigma Quality
• TQdM (Total Quality data Management)
• 5 Stream Approach to Data Quality

Success Stories and Lessons Learned from:

• British Telecommunications
• WorldCom International
• ITNET
• Motorola

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 DAMA International: Michael Brackett, DAMA International

Dear Colleague:

On behalf of DAMA International I want to thank you for your interest in the second DAMA International Europe Conference this year. The success and growth of the DAMA International Conferences in the United States and the success of the first DAMA International Europe Conference encourage us to continue expanding both conferences. They also prompt us to continue our efforts to develop a more professional data management discipline.

The theme of the DAMA Conference is "The Challenges Facing Data Resource Management". It is a time of crisis for data resource management, not confirmation of our past practices. It is a time for a new commitment to stop the increasing disparity and start developing a quality data resource that supports the changing business needs of an intelligent learning organisation. It is a time for the data management discipline to mature and become a recognised professional discipline.

The DAMA Conference is again co-located with both the Meta Data Europe Conference and is joined this year by the Information Quality Conference. The DAMA Conference has also been expanded to two tracks to offer delegates a total of four tracks containing a wide variety of data management topics. This increased scope makes this Event Europe’s premier conference for data resource management.

The Event offers tutorials, keynote presentations, and track presentations on many topics relevant to data management. The Event features speakers from a variety of countries, with many different backgrounds and experiences. The emphasis is on lessons learned, success stories, and viable approaches to professional data resource management. I hope that you will join us and other colleagues for a very exciting and rewarding experience at this Event in London.

Michael Brackett
President
DAMA International

About the Second Annual DAMA International Europe Conference

The theme of this year’s DAMA International Europe Conference is "The Challenges Facing Data Resource Management." The management of data is evolving from a concept of administering the data to a concept of managing a quality data resource that supports a rapidly changing, intelligent, learning organisation. It is evolving towards a recognised professional discipline that directly supports business activities. This evolution requires a new commitment to resolving existing data management problems and developing a quality data resource. It requires a commitment to concentrate on the information aspect of information technology, rather than the technology aspect, that is focussed primarily on business support.

The Conference is oriented towards the practical aspects of developing and managing a quality data resource. The emphasis is on approaches, lessons learned, and success stories related to data resource management. The data resource is the foundation for providing information to the business activities of public and private sector organisations. Proper management of that critical resource is mandatory for an organisation to be fully successful.

The Conference includes tutorials, joint keynote presentations, and individual track presentations related to data resource management. The topics presented at this Conference and the co-located Conferences provide an excellent coverage of the things that need to be done to develop a quality data resource that supports an organisation’s dynamic need for quality information. Any organisation interested in professional data resource management should send delegates to this Conference.

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 IRM UK Welcome

Dear Colleague,

The success of last year’s two co-located conferences, Meta Data Europe and DAMA International’s first European conference, has encouraged us to grow both conferences and expand the event further by also co-locating them with our very popular Information Quality Conference. On 29-31 October, you will be able to choose from over 40 sessions and tutorials on the subjects of meta data, information quality and data resource management.

The conferences feature a selection of international speakers from all over the world with a proven reputation both for their ability to inform and educate, but also to entertain. We have carefully chosen our speakers so that they include both a mixture of end-user speakers, vendors and consultants.

Case studies will include: Prudential, Agilent Technologies, European Court of Human Rights, WorldCom International, Motorola, British Telecommunications, Reuters, The Ministry of Defence, ITNet and Union Pacific Railway.

The Meta Data Management Conference will cover the practicalities of meta data management. It has been organised around the following key themes: Cost justifying meta data management/ROI/successfully implementing meta data management Meta model standards – particularly XML and meta data repository standards Integration – EAI, ETL, B2B communication, mergers and acquisitions, C2B and e-commerce as well as integration of tools and repositories.

The Information Quality Conference Europe 2001 is now in its 4th year. If you care about your customers who suffer from non-quality information and if you do not like to see people and money resources wasted on information scrap and re-work when they could do things that add value, do not miss THE Information Quality event of the year. Here is another opportunity for you to listen to the ‘Father’ of Information Quality Management. Larry P. English will be chairing the conference and will also be presenting a full day tutorial on the ABCs of Information Quality. He will also be presenting a keynote.

The theme of this year’s DAMA International European Conference is ‘The Challenges Facing Data Resource Management.’ The data resource is the foundation for providing information to the business activities of public and private sector organisations. Proper management of that critical resource is mandatory for an organisation to be fully successful. Hence, the management of data is evolving from a concept of administering the data to a concept of managing a quality data resource that supports a rapidly changing, intelligent, learning organisation. It is evolving towards a recognised professional discipline that directly supports business activities.

The DAMA Conference has been expanded to two tracks to offer delegates a total of four conference tracks containing a wide variety of topics to choose from. This increased scope makes this Event Europe’s premier conference for data management and information quality. The emphasis for all conferences is on lessons learned, success stories, and viable approaches to professional data resource management.

John Zachman, ‘Father’ of the Enterprise Architecture framework, will also be presenting a full day’s tutorial on Enterprise Architecture.

Don’t forget that this event provides you with the ideal forum to meet not just the speakers in your area of interest, but also other delegates with their own problems, experiences and solutions as well as solution providers.

Finally, a big thank you to our conference chairs, Larry P. English, Michael Brackett and Rosemary Rock-Evans, for working so hard to provide us with this, Europe’s most authoritative and exciting event of the year. We look forward to welcoming you in London in October. Chairs’ welcomes and introductory paragraphs can be found on the conference website.

Jeremy Hall
Managing Director
IRM UK Strategic IT Training Ltd

ps Select from over 40 sessions across ALL tutorials and conferences.

 

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