Resources

Enterprise Information Management (EIM) contains a lot of abstract concepts that are of interest to information architects, and of no interest at all to CxOs. So how do you present your EIM program and projects? In this webinar, John Ladley will cover how to describe and communicate key concepts like Information Asset Management, Information Maturity, and Data Governance at the CxO level.

Agile Analytics: Making Business Intelligence Work for the Business

Making effective use of information is a central focus of organizations both large and small in our contemporary competitive landscape. Information is an asset to exploit without restrictions on accessing new data and using it to provide better insight on overcoming business challenges.

Look Further on Up the Road: Anticipating & Addressing Data Governance Trials & Tribulations

No matter where you are in the development and deployment of your Data Governance program, you should always anticipate the trials and tribulations you will encounter along the way to achieving a sustainable and successful program. This webinar from Robert S. Seiner will briefly describe key points he will address in his half-day tutorial at the Data Governance Conference in San Diego in June. This webinar will briefly introduce ways to anticipate and address issues surrounding:

Now you have data governance up and running. Now what?

Is it self sustaining? (no) Is it hard to keep going? (yes) This webinar will highlight major roadblocks to keeping Data Governance programs running and some simple remediation strategies.

RECORDED WEBCAST: Better Business Definitions for Data Integration

All data professionals acknowledge the importance of definitions, but there is very little guidance on how to formulate and manage them. This is reflected by tool vendors, which emphasize the features of the containers for definitions, but say very little about the content of definitions. This presentation examines what definitions consist of and how high quality definitions can be produced.

RECORDED WEBCAST: Introduction to Data Quality Tools and Technologies

Once you have recognized that poor data quality impacts your business, how do you address the elimination of the sources of data flaws?

RECORDED WEBCAST: Data Governance and Dancing in the Rain

At the 2010 Enterprise Data World Conference, Robert S. Seiner will deliver a presentation on "Steps to Building an Effective Data Governance Program Without Budget." This webcast is a sneak preview of that topic.

RECORDED WEBCAST: Columnar DBMS 101

A columnar DBMS is an implementation of the relational theory, but with a twist. The data storage layer does not contain records. It contains a grouping of columns.

Due to the variable column lengths within a row, a small column with low cardinality, or variability of values, may reside completely within one block while another column with high cardinality and longer length may take a thousand blocks. In columnar, all the same data - your data - is there. It's just organized differently (automatically, by the DBMS).

RECORDED WEBCAST: Agile Database Development

On Sunday, March 14, 2010, Pramod Sadalage, Pricipal Consultant at Thoughtworks, Inc., will present a half-day workshop on the topic of "Agile Database Development." This webcast is a sneak preview of that topic.

RECORDED WEBCAST: What You Need to Know about Decisioning with Business Rules

Ronald G. Ross and his colleague Gladys S. W. Lam will be at Enterprise Data World 2010 leading a workshop called "Decision Models and Business Rules: Everything Data Professionals Need to Know." Join us as Ron takes us through a preview of this important topic.