Tutorials and Night School
November 16, 2011
| Wednesday 16 November 7:00–6:00 |
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| Wednesday 16 November 7:00–8:30 |
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| 8:30 - 11:45 MORNING TUTORIALS | ||||||
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Choosing Your Data Governance Strategies: From All-You-Can-Eat Buffet to Haute Cuisine Pablo Riboldi, Solution Manager for Information Governance & Quality, LDS Church This tutorial will show the full menu of DG strategies and help attendees decides which strategies are best for their organizations. Every DG Program I've encountered is different. It seems that DG strategies are as numerous and varied as the plates served at a cruise's 24-hour buffet. However, the strategies for a particular DG program are probably more like the menu at fast-food corner stand. Nothing wrong with that, because you need to focus your resources on the most valuable strategies for your organization, choosing the best strategies for your DG Program is critical. But, how do you choose? What do you choose? In this tutorial, we will survey the available menu of DG Strategies and you will learn:
This session will help you present the strategies for your own DG Program as a finely crafted menu for best taste of your organization. |
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Metadata Governance - Overseeing Your Business Terms, Definitions, Uses, and Implications David Loshin, President, Knowledge Integrity Business policies drafted by non-technical people contain many references to business terms, concepts, and loosely-defined notions. In the context of an enterprise data architecture, the existence of differences in use and definition of commonly-used concepts exposes inconsistencies will complicate oversight, reduce efficiency, and stall application development. Extracting information requirements from business policies goes beyond the isolation of business rules that are linked to data expectations. It must incorporate the right approach to identifying data concept use, processes for clarification of definition, and overseeing metadata management. To ensure compliance with data policies linked to corporate business objectives, there must be processes for identifying key business terms, proposing definitions, iterative review and approval, and publication of standards. In this tutorial we explore the right approaches to collaborative semantics and metadata, tracking lineage and use, and tools to simplify analysis and evaluation of impacts of changes to terms and definitions. Attendees will learn about:
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Learning from Successful Data Governance Implementations Robert S. Seiner, President and Publisher, KIK Consulting and TDAN.com Sir Isaac Newton was quoted as saying that he could see further by "standing on the shoulders of giants". Following this line of thinking with a Data Governance twist, this half-day tutorial from Robert S. Seiner will focus on gathering valuable knowledge from successful Data Governance implementations with a focus on identifying useful take-aways from their stories. This session will concentrate on the success factors from these programs and the components that attendees should keep an eye out for during the balance of the conference. The case studies discussed in this session will range from data governance to information governance implementations, invasive to non-invasive approaches, and will describe how organizations sought quick wins versus prolonged and sustainable success. During this session, Seiner will highlight important aspects of successful programs that attendees can pursue and learn more about through the case studies and other sessions throughout the conference. Seiner will look at how organizations focus on:
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- 12:30 DATA GOVERNANCE SOLUTIONS |
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Using A Metadata Repository For Data Governance: 30 Minutes On The Practical Application Of Metadata Technology This session will demonstrate the use of ASG-Rochade to address a variety of practical data governance issues around the essential questions of “what information Assets have we got, where did it come from, what might it be used for, and who might be interested?” |
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A Roadmap from Data Management to Data Governance: You CAN Get There from Here! Data governance programs are beginning to make inroads and achieve success. But those successes have had their share of growing pains, with many starts and stops and with business benefits that can be difficult to measure. How can organizations establish the discipline of data governance and prove incremental success while ensuring an ongoing, sustainable and valuable program? It all starts at the core. Implicitly, many companies begin governing data when they implement master data management or data warehousing solutions. Even without a formal governance organization in place, rules for data quality, handling of data, and access to data are defined for the key elements being brought into these managed repositories. You may view this as governance in stealth mode, but it is governance nonetheless! In this session, you will learn how to:
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| 1:30 - 4:45 AFTERNOON TUTORIALS | ||||||
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The Implementation of an Award Winning Data Governance Program -
Our Experiences at Sallie Mae Michele Koch, Director, Enterprise Data Management. Sallie Mae This is an interactive workshop to help you design your Data Governance (DG) Program. Michele will review Sallie Mae’s approach to building a successful DG Program that has been recognized through winning the 2011 DG Conference Best Practice Award and the 2010 TDWI’s DG Best Practice Award. Michele will present how they utilized business initiatives to gain momentum and resources, lessons learned, and how IT works with the business areas. She will also cover the following modules of their DG Cookbook and help you tailor these topics for your own program:
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Understanding and Governing Your Master Data Domains David Loshin, President, Knowledge Integrity Eager data managers seek to build master data repositories by wholesale identifying, collecting, and consolidating data sets presumed to represent the same master data concepts. Yet years of isolated design, development, and operations have led to a broad variance in the meanings of commonly-used business terms. Data repurposing enables uncontrolled reinterpretation of master domain semantics, while cross-functional processes rely on different views of master data characteristics at different points of the workflow. The absence of data governance and the corresponding variance in master domain semantics confuses the data consolidation process, introduces systemic data inconsistencies, and at worst will jeopardize the success of the master data management program. In this tutorial we examine the root causes of variance in master domain semantics and introduce data governance processes to reduce variation, simplify master domain modeling, develop a unified model for data sharing, and increase the probability of MDM success. Attendees will learn:
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Implementing a Data Governance Program Office The Role of The Data Governance Director and Manager Martha Dember, Consulting Manager, Data Governance Practice, EMC Consulting Data Governance is beginning to mature and as such the amount of work effort is quickly growing to the level that dedicated resources such as lead domain stewards and data analysts are becoming the norm. This session will discuss the trends in instantiating a formal data governance office with a team of dedicated individuals reporting to the data governance director. It will specifically address the roles of coordination, communication and facilitation that are mandatory for the data governance director and why the additional roles are required. Participants in this tutorial session will learn:
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Using Data Governance to Mature End-User Computing Sean Kimball, Chief Enterprise Architect, MetLife James Luisi, Enterprise Architect, MetLife In many enterprises spreadsheets are used in large numbers for financial modeling and various kinds of reporting. However, this widespread use carries with it risks arising from data quality and other issues. Yet, the convenience of spreadsheets is well-liked by users. How do you change this environment? This presentation describes a multi-pronged approach taken in a large bank that encountered such a situation. It is a mixture of both governance and empowerment of end-users, and includes the introduction of a new architecture for data access. Users are able to locate data they require and assemble it in new end user environments where they can create reports in a more controlled fashion. A semantic layer enables the users to perform the data discovery. This approach solves many of the issues that have occur in spreadsheet-driven environments Attendees will learn:
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Measure Twice and Cut Once Metrics for Data Governance and Stewardship Loretta Mahon Smith, Lead Data Architect Every tool, methodology, and book that you read on data governance and stewardship references the need for metrics. But how do you measure something as intangible as this? This presentation will include an overview of how to develop measures, capture the information, and present it to executive management with flair. Attendees will learn how to:
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Unlocking the Real Value of Data Thru Data Governance Mark Meleski, Sr. Director of Data Governance, Privacy and Business Intelligence, Neustar Come learn about how a medium-sized Information & Analytics company that handles billions of transactions per day, manages their Data Governance program. Hear from Mark Meleski, Sr. Director of Data Governance, Privacy and Business Intelligence at Neustar, discuss the Data Governance approach he implemented across his organization. Learn from Mark’s insights on the value of discovering the underlying value locked within most data supplies. Bring home with you some fresh perspectives on how to develop or reinvigorate your Data Governance program. Topics include:
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| 6:00
- 8:00 RECEPTION |
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Evening Reception Sponsored by EMC EMC, a Gold sponsor of the Data Governance Winter Conference, invites you to an evening reception on Wednesday, November 16th beginning at 6:00pm. Come enjoy delicious cocktails, great food and amazing views at the Sky Terrace located on the 4th floor of the conference center. |
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