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Perspective
Sessions
Trillium
Software
1 November 13:20-13:50
The Data Quality Timebomb - What You Need to Know About
Your Data
Ed Wrazen, VP Operations, EMEA, Trillium Software |
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quality problems" is a frequently quoted cause of CRM, Data Warehouse
and Business Intelligence failure. Why? Because problems are discovered
far too late in the project lifecycle resulting in fire-fighting.
Faced with these challenges and the increasing need to meet regulatory
compliance for acts such as Basel II and Sarbanes-Oxley, organisations
need to better understand the quality of their data, plan their projects
accurately and deliver these on time and on budget. This presentation
discusses the issues and challenges of total data quality management
and explains how technology automates the understanding and management
of data quality, from planning through to production. |
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DataFlux
1 November 13:20 - 13:50
Analyze, Improve, Control – Turning Data into a Competitive
Advantage
Brett Dorr, Solutions Engineer, DataFlux Corporation
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| Staying
competitive in today’s economy requires in-depth knowledge about
your customers and your marketplace. To gain an advantage –
and exploit business opportunities – companies need consistent,
accurate and reliable information to help make reasonable, results-oriented
decisions. Building better business information requires an effective
data management program that encompasses people, process and technology.
This session will demonstrate how a complete end-to-end data management
solution can be combined with a proven process for analyzing, improving
and controlling your data. The result? More useful information that
can drive effective enterprise applications, including data warehousing,
ERP and CRM systems. |
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Ab
Initio
1 November 17:50-18:20
Enterprise
Scale Data and Quality Management
Elliott McClements, Consultant, Ab Initio Software Corporation |
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Ab Initio has been helping the largest companies in the world –
in industries as diverse as telecommunications, finance, retail,
insurance/health care, e-commerce, manufacturing and shipping –
to integrate and manage their data. As companies strive to extract
more information from their data the demands on data quality become
more and more apparent.
Ab Initio
provides best-of-breed capabilities for both ETL (Extraction, Transformation,
and Loading) and EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) tasks
within a single, consistent framework whilst also providing enterprise
Metadata Management. Ab Initio software enables organisations to
continuously measure the quality of data as it is being processed
at full volume. |
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ObjectStore
1 November 17:50 - 18:20
Real Time Data Services
Simon
Waterer, Senior Managing Consultant, ObjectStore |
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| Organisations
need to deploy IT infrastructures that enable real-time data services,
to connect business systems together, both within and outside an organisation,
and to deliver up-to-date information with zero latency. Real-time
data services promise to reduce costs by removing the need for manual
intervention and by enabling straight through processing, but they
place a new set of requirements on IT systems, especially if these
systems are batch oriented.
Based on real-life
examples, including Amazon.com, Orange and Delta Airlines we will
provide insights into why a caching solution can be beneficial,
the key requirements, and the relationship between caching and the
operational data store. |
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Similarity
Systems
2 November 12:50 - 13:20
Data Quality Beyond the Name and Address: Ensuring Product,
Inventory and Supply Chain Information Meets High Standards
Garry Moroney, CEO, Similarity Systems |
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| To
date the data quality efforts of most organizations have focused primarily
on profiling, matching and cleansing customer name and address data.
This work has gone a long way towards improving the performance of
customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing efforts. However
the more pressing business issues of today, such as corporate accountability
and streamlining the supply chain, require cracking the much harder
nut of non-customer-oriented data quality. Similarity Systems CEO
Garry Moroney explains how broader data quality capabilities are helping
enterprises to solve data quality problems beyond the name and address. |
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QAS
2 November 12:50 - 13:20
Managing Data Integrity With Confidence; a Consistent Approach
Rebecca Clayton, Head of Marketing, QAS
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| Data
integrity is a constant challenge that impacts businesses worldwide.
Recent independent research from NOP World - Data quality: driving
business with data - identifies a clear gap between a company’s
ideals and the reality of their customer data quality. The most effective
way to fix the quality gap is through a watertight data strategy,
which determines the consistency of existing data and policies for
the collection and storage of new data. As organisations employ a
growing number of channels to collect data, a consistent approach
is essential to ensure companies have a single view of their customers. |
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Sybase
2 November 17:30 -18:00
PowerDesigner®: Enterprise-Wide Modelling
Justin List, Systems Consultant, Sybase® |
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| Current
trends in application design show the convergence of different techniques
and technologies. It is no longer enough to have separate tools
for Data Models, Business Process Models or UML Diagrams.
Modern technology
architectures such as Web Services, demand holistic enterprise-wide
visibility from data level to process level, in order to successfully
reconcile the needs of the business with the demands of the technology.
Using PowerDesigner
we aim to show that requirements can be captured, modelled for the
business and linked to UML. This can then be persisted through a
data model, whilst maintaining a coherent data dictionary, backed
up by an enterprise repository.
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Tranato
2 November 17:30 - 18:00
Practical Steps to Improving Information Quality
Steve Tuck, Managing Consultant, Tranato |
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| Improving
Information Quality is an ongoing exercise; left alone data not
only stagnates but degrades. This session will discuss the challenges
of maintaining and improving the quality of your data. Learn how
to:
- Provide
a consistent and comprehensive understanding and appreciation
of IQ issues throughout the organisation
- Monitor
data defects through the use of a Tracking Framework
- Drive quality
improvements by making best use of available resources
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The
Data Circle
2 November 18:05 - 18:35
The One-Stop Resource for Data Management Issues
Simon Hughes, DT/Studio Account Manager, Embarcadero
Alan Wenden, Business Development Manager, Business Data Quality
Martin Doyle, CEO, DQ Global
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The
hardest data quality task is acquiring the knowledge and best practice
to deliver an integrated strategy. Embarcadero Technologies recognise
this and has built on its existing relationships with data improvement
specialist, DQ Global, and data profiling specialist, Business Data
Quality, to create The Data Circle - a one-stop resource of best
of breed solutions with full connectivity. This end-to-end data
management solution is presented by experts in different areas of
data management and addresses key issues of ease of use, time to
delivery and cost of delivery.
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