Overview

With the explosion of available data and the need for understanding this data, corporations have realized the value of meta data its importance to their businesses to thrive in increasingly competitive markets. Understanding meta data is essential to transforming data into information, usable across the enterprise. This overview presents the lessons learned from companies that have successfully implemented managed meta data environments. The real-world MME case studies will be used to demonstrate the importance of having a methodology for defining meta data requirements, capturing and integrating meta data, understanding the meta data return on investment (ROI), meta data integration products, and provide a basic methodology for defining an attainable meta data management project scope.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the concepts of meta data management

• Learn about a full life-cycle methodology for implementing meta data management

• Overview of a successful meta data management team

• Understand how to define requirements that yield positive Return on Investment (ROI)

• Understand how to manage risk and anticipate the challenges in meta data management

• Identify the challenges of implementing an MME

Seminar Outline

1. Understanding meta data

   • Overview of meta data and its role in information management

   • Analyze the current state of the meta data industry

   • Defining meta data

   1. Technical meta data
   2. Business meta data
2. Challenges in the meta data industry

   • Meta data ROI definition

   • Selling the concept of building a MME to management (ROI)

   • Active vs. passive meta data

   • Top 10 things to avoid to ensure project success

3. Overview of a managed meta data environment (MME)

   • Challenges of implementing a MME

   • Keys to a sound MME architecture

   • Defining meta data requirements

   • Identifying sources of meta data

   • Integrating sources of meta data

   • Accessing the MME

   • Approaches to meta data development

   • Creating the MME team

   • MME team roles

   • Overview of an MME project plan

   • Constructing the MME scope document

   • Overview of a meta data integration strategy

   • Meta data delivery

4. Overview of the meta data market

   • Evaluating meta data tools (integration and access)

   • How to evaluate meta data tools vendors

5. Meta data repository architecture

   • Centralized, decentralized, and distributed overview

6. Understanding the power of meta data

   • Meta data as the key to knowledge management

   • Future direction of meta data

7. Workshop Conclusion

   • Summary, additional exercises, sources for further reading, etc.

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