KEYNOTES

Tuesday
28 October
9:30-10:30

META DATA KEYNOTE
DATABASE GRAFFITTI: SCRIBBLES FROM THE ASKEW WALL
Chris Date
Wednesday
29 October

9:00 - 10:00
INFORMATION QUALITY KEYNOTE
REVERSING THE HIGH CO$T$ OF LOW QUALITY INFORMATION

Larry P. English, President and Principal, INFORMATION IMPACT International, Inc.
Wednesday
29 October
13:20- 14:20
DAMA INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE
A ROADMAP TO ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION AND COLLABORATION

Mike Ferguson, European Managing Director, Intelligent Business Strategies
 

Tuesday
28 October
9:30– 10:30

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Meta Data Keynote:
DATABASE GRAFFITTI: SCRIBBLES FROM THE ASKEW WALL


This presentation is based in part on one of Chris Date's regular columns for Database Programming & Design (the tenth anniversary issue), but includes much additional material. It consists of a series of quotations, aphorisms, and anecdotes - seasoned with a fair degree of personal commentary - that are directly or indirectly relevant to the general subject of database management. The presentation is not technically deep, but several serious messages do lie not too far below the surface. The aim is partly to edify, partly just to amuse.
  • The prehistoric era
  • Objects and objections
  • Normalisation, networks and nulls
  • The role of simplicity
  • The joy of self-reference
  • Relational misconceptions
  • Some good quotes
  • Books and book reviews
  • Miscellany

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Chris Date

Chris Date

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Wednesday
29 October
9:00 – 10:00

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Information Quality Keynote:
REVERSING THE HIGH CO$T$ OF LOW QUALITY INFORMATION


Organizations that ignore information quality problems today do so at their own risk. The high costs of information "scrap and rework" that in the past was considered a "normal cost of doing business," devastate the organization’s balance sheet and can cause business or mission failure in the realized Information Age.

The same condition was true of manufacturing in the Industrial Age when companies were squandering 20-40% of their revenue in costs of manufacturing scrap and rework. That is, until Deming, Juran, Ishikawa, Imai and Crosby proved to the world that by designing quality in, you can eliminate the high costs of low quality products. Just as quality principles transformed manufacturing processes to recover and eliminate the costs of scrap and rework, so also does Information Quality Improvement principles and processes help you recover and eliminate the costs of processes failure and information scrap and rework caused by low-quality information.

In this presentation, Mr. English describes how to measure the costs of nonquality information, both direct costs and opportunity costs. He describes how process improvement, information presentation design improvement and error proofing can transform business process effectiveness and business success. Mr. English describes how leading-edge organizations are gaining competitive advantage and increasing business effectiveness through information quality management.

  • The high—and hidden—costs of low quality information
  • The real metrics of information quality: $$$, £££, €, ¥¥¥
  • How to measure the real costs of nonquality information
  • How to prevent customers from leaving and losing their customer lifetime value
  • Measure the ROI of process improvement and quality information
  • How to create and sustain the High IQ™ Organization

High IQ™ is a trademark of INFORMATION IMPACT International, Inc.

Featured Speaker

Larry English Larry P. English
President and Principal
INFORMATION IMPACT International, Inc.

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Wednesday
29 October
13:20– 14:20

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DAMA INTERNATIONAL Keynote:
A ROADMAP TO ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION AND COLLABORATION


This keynote presentation begins by outlining examples of business problems caused by lack of integration and collaboration. It then defines an enterprise architecture that shows how processes, applications, information, and collaborative tools can be integrated. This architecture also shows why common business metadata is the missing piece of the puzzle that integrates the enterprise. In addition, the session includes a roadmap showing the steps to achieving enterprise integration. This includes requirements, how EAI and ETL can be integrated on common metadata and how intelligence and collaboration can be used to guide business operations to meet strategic business objectives.

Featured Speakers

Mike Ferguson Mike Ferguson
European Managing Director
Intelligent Business Strategies

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