Upcoming Events
The Data Governance Annual Conference
June 2-5, 2008 - Hotel Kabuki, San Francisco
www.debtechint.com
The Data Governance Conference offers:
- DAMA Members up to a $150 discount off registration. This discount is in addition to early registration incentives and group discounts
- CPE credits for CDMP
- Featured presentation regarding utilizing the DMBok for a successful data governance program
- Presentations by DAMA International board members Peter Aiken, and Anne Marie Smith and DAMA International advisor, Len Silverston and the 2007 DAMA International Professional Award Winner, Bob Seiner
Practical Approaches and Success Stories The "How-To" Conference on Data Governance and Data Stewardship June 2-5, 2008 San Francisco, CA.
This annual event will focus on the "how tos" in getting started, deploying and sustaining a data governance and stewardship program.
This year the program has been expanded and includes 8 pre-conference tutorials, four conference tracks and enhanced networking and learning opportunities. The conference includes in depth tutorials and presentations by data governance experts and more than a dozen case studies.
NOTICE: Meeting to be rescheduled
please check back for more information.
Dear Members,
Due to a change in Bill Inmon's schedule, he will not be coming to Richmond this week. We are working to reschedule our chapter meeting sometime after the DAMA International conference later this month (Mar 16-21).
If you are interested in the international conference, there is still time to attend. Please see www.dama.org.
1. Bill Inmon to Speak at Upcoming DAMA-CV Meeting
October 2008
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)
School of Business
(more information below)
2. Bill Inmon's Public DW2.0 Certification Class
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 - Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)
School of Business
Richmond, Virginia
VCU Maps - Directions to VCU - Parking
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Bill Inmon
Bill Inmon, world-renowned expert, speaker and author on data warehousing, is widely recognized as the "Father of Data Warehousing."
He was also voted as "One of the Ten IT People Who Mattered in the the Past Forty Years" by the Computer World Magazine's July 2007 issue.
He is creator of the Corporate Information Factory and more recently, creator of the Government Information Factory. With over 35 years of experience in database technology management and data warehouse design, he has been a keynote speaker for many major computing association and many industry conferences, seminars, and tradeshows.
Bill Inmon to Speak at Upcoming DAMA-CV Meeting
October 2008
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)
School of Business
Richmond, Virginia
VCU Maps - Directions to VCU - Parking
- Meeting Agenda:
1. 5:15 - 5:50 Networking and Hors D?oeuvres
2. 5:50 - 6:00 Announcements
3. 6:00 - 7:00 Program speaker
4. [Optional dinner w/ Speaker]
- Cost: Free to registered members, $20 to non-members
- Membership is $35, $20 for students
- Members should expect to receive emails about this meeting
- Please continue to check the web site for updates
9/12/2007, Wednesday
DAMA-CV EARTLY FALL PRESENTATION
Michael Scofield,
Vice President,
Manager, Data Asset Development, ESRI, Inc.
DAMA Central Virginia is pleased to announce that Michael Scofield will give a presentation on "Issues of Geospatial Data Management". Mr. Scofield's presentation discusses, but not limited to, the foundational issues relating to GIS Systems, Data Integration Challenges and Data Management.
Michael Scofield is Manager, Data Asset Development, ESRI, Inc. in Redlands, CA. With annual sales of more than $610 million, ESRI is the world leader in the geographic information system (GIS) software industry. Mr. Scofield has lectured over 130 times to professional audiences across the U.S. and overseas on topics of data quality, semantic data integration, data warehousing, and data management. Prior to coming to ESRI, he was Assistant Professor of Health Information Management at Loma Linda University. He has held posts in the manufacturing and financial services industries. His articles appear in The Database Newsletter, Data Management Review, the B-Eye Network Newsletter, Information Week, IBI Systems Journals, and others. He also has humor published in the L.A. Times and other journals.
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm (Registration/Networking starts from 9:30am - Coffee will be served) (Please arrive by 9am so we can wrap up the discussion by noon. Also please note the new meeting location below.)
Cost: Free to members
Annual Membership: $35 for professionals, $20 for students.
(Numerous conferences offer DAMA member discounts of between $100-$250.)
Meeting Location: Maggie L Walker Business and Technology Center
501 E Franklin Street, Suite # 105 (1st Floor Class Room)
Richmond , VA 23219
DAMA-CV sponsored by:
Previous DAMA-CV Meetings
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Topic
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Summer Social Event
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Summer Social Event at James River Winery |
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Michael C. Daconta
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Mr. Daconta gave a presentation on
"Data Readiness for the Enterprise (DARE)?.
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Thomas C. Redman, Ph.D.
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Dr. Redman gave a presentation on
Who ?Owns? Data?: Workable Roles for IT and ?the Business?. |
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David Rafner
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Mr. Rafner gave a presentation on "Business Value of Loosely Structured Data" and then discussed "Hot Topics in Data Management".
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Jack Olson, Chief Technology Officer, NEON Enterprise Software, Inc.
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Mr. Olson gave a presentation on "Managing Data For Long Retention Periods: Requirements and Challenges" which explored the topics including
application independence, metadata independence, data authenticity, change management, storage management, and access control.
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Geoff Snowman, Mid Atlantic District, MS Developers' Network
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Mr. Snowman gave a presentation on "Querying XML using XQuery" which explored XPath and XQuery, two of the standards from W3C that support XML. XPath allows you to identify a sub-node within an XML document. It’s the standard format for searching XML documents. XQuery builds on XPath to allow selection and manipulation of sections within an XML document. Mr. Snowman also talked about the theoretical underpinnings of the two standards and demonstrate numerous examples based on Microsoft's implementations of the XPath and XQuery standards. |
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Clive Finkelstein ,
the "Father" of Information Engineering (IE)
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Mr. Finkelstein gave an abridged version of his one day course on "Rapid Delivery of Enterprise Architecture." The presentation summarized rapid delivery methodologies with a special focus on the technologies for delivering enterprise architectures .
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Michael Gorman, founder of Whitemarsh Information Systems
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Mr. Gorman has been involved in database--full time--since 1969. He is a charter member of X3H2, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) National Committee on Information Technology Standards (NCITS) H2 Technical Committee on Database, has been its secretary since 1978. Mr. Gorman is also a frequent contributor to the TDAN, The Data Administrator Newsletter, and has spoken on such diverse topics as business objects, methodologies, metrics, costing, and industry standards.
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Halloween: Data Horror Stories & Metadata Solutions:
Stories to include:
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ERP Implementation Saga: Once, Twice, Three Times a Loser?
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Project Management Newbies: Data? What Data?
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Migrating Customer Histories: Now You See It, Now You Don't.
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Rich Stevens & Bob Thoms - Cognos
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Best Practices in Developing
Corporate Scorecards and Dashboards:
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Why is the demand for corporate scorecards and dashboardsred hot?
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Technology overview -score carding vs. dash boarding The current state of the
market
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Going beyond pretty pictures -providing meaningful business insight
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How to deliver depth and data consistency
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How to leverage and/or sell data mart and data warehouse initiatives
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How to engage executive sponsors, set expectations, and drive strong ROI
Download: PowerPoint Presentations
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M. David Allen - Data Blueprint, Director of Technology and
Coauther of XML in Data Management
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Making it Happen: Working with People and Politics in Business
Contexts: Deals with the way that data people and technical people
interface with business users and managers. It discusses reasons why
communication between groups can be difficult, and offers suggestions geared
towards data professionals on how to make things happen. The presentation
covers the background of data people and those they communicate with, discusses
counterproductive strategies that lead nowhere, and provides alternative
examples of methods that can be used to sell projects internally and
communicate effectively.
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Dick Jones (Virginia Department of Transportation), Dennis
Kremer (Dominion Power), Jason Legum (CapitalOne), & John Morgan (Circuit City)
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Metadata: Challenges & Opportunities: Panel Discussion
Download: PowerPoint Presentations
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Burt G. Parker - Principal, Paladin Integration Engineering
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Data Management Maturity featuring the Enterprise Data
Management Framework: Review of the Enterprise Data Management
Framework that underpins the research efforts. The Framework consists of a
Template for Enterprise Data Management, including roles and responsibilities,
and a Template for Enterprise Data Management Maturity. Profiles of the
research results into the state of data management maturity are summarized in a
number of matrixes based upon the Templates of the Enterprise Data Management
Framework. The presentation included summaries of specific, commonly found
findings as reported in a number of data management process improvement
engagements.
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