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Managed Meta Data Environment (MME) Full Life-Cycle Guide

Overview

Meta data is one of the hottest arenas in information technology today. Corporations have realized the value of meta data and the absolute need for it in order for their businesses to thrive in increasingly competitive markets. Building a managed meta data environment (MME) is no longer an option, but an absolute requirement for corporations. Companies have realized that without an MME their IT departments cannot properly manage their systems and that their systems are not providing true value to the business end user. An MME is the system that manages your company’s systems.

This practical course leverages the lessons learned from companies that have successfully deployed MMEs. 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. You will learn to calculate return on investment (ROI), form the right team, and develop a project plan including a methodology for defining an attainable project scope. This course provides a walkthrough of a detailed meta data model, advanced meta data architectures and pulse-of-the-market analysis of meta data integration tool vendors.

Benefits To Your Company

  • Current IT systems are highly inflexible and poorly understood. Proper meta data management holds the key to reducing IT budgets and for creating a more adaptable IT environment
  • Meta data provides the semantic layer between the decision support system and the business end users. This significantly enhances the value of the data warehouse/data marts to the business end users
  • Proper meta data management reduces IT budgets as a MME shrinks development cycles for initially growing and maintaining the data warehouse
  • Gain competitive advantage by creating a Meta Data Sourcing Layer and Meta Data Integration Layer strategy for your company
  • Save valuable time and money by understanding the challenges of implementing a MME

Who Should Attend

  • Data architects
  • Enterprise architects
  • Data administrators
  • Database administrators
  • Database designers
  • Systems analysts
  • Business analysts
  • Project managers
  • IT professionals

Learning Objectives

  • You Will Construct Your Own Release 1.0 Meta Data Project Scope Document
  • Six layers of the Managed Meta Data Environment
    1. Meta data sourcing layer
    2. Meta data integration layer
    3. Meta data repository
    4. Meta data management layer
    5. Meta data marts
    6. Meta data delivery layer
  • In-depth analysis meta data tool vendors
  • Understand and build your own weighted tool checklist
  • Develop an MME architecture
  • Understand the architectural techniques of centralized, decentralized, and distributed
  • Learn a full life-cycle methodology for implementing an MME
  • Organize and manage your team
  • Understand how to define requirements that yield positive ROI
  • Understand how to manage risk and anticipate the stumbling blocks before they occur
  • Identify the challenges of implementing an MME
  • How to successfully build an IT portfolio management system
  • Understand how to build an MME that is flexible to the changing technical marketplace

What Makes This Certified Course Unique

  • This ICCP-certified course provides participants with practical, in-depth understanding of enterprise-wide data management. Through case studies and team interaction attendees will attain the real-world implementation skills necessary to build a successful MME on the first implementation. In addition, it provides valuable insight into how meta data is changing the way we implement all of our IT systems.

Course Outline

  1. Understanding Meta Data - Analyze the Current State of the Meta Data Industry
    • Cutting through the meta data market hype
    • Defining meta data
    • Technical meta data
    • Business meta data
  2. Challenges in the meta data industry
    • Selling the concept of building an MME to management (ROI)
    • Active vs. passive meta data
    • Top 10 things to avoid to ensure project success
  3. How to Implement an MME
    • Challenges of implementing an MME
    • Keys to a sound MME architecture
    • How to tie the data warehouse architecture to the 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 role walkthroughs
    • Creating the MME project plan
    • Meta data ROI definition
    • Constructing the MME scope document
    • Create a Meta Data integration strategy for your company
    • Meta data delivery
  4. Understanding the key meta data vendors
    • Evaluating meta data tools (integration and access)
    • Real-world, detailed analysis of all of the top meta data tool vendors
    • How to evaluation meta data tools vendors
  5. Meta data repository architecture
    • Centralized, decentralized, and distributed
    • Advanced architecture techniques (bi-directional, and closed loop)
  6. IT portfolio management
    • Defining IT portfolio management
    • Listing of the specific technical meta data needed for IT portfolio management
    • Keys to a successful IT portfolio management initiative
  7. Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
    • CMM overview
    • CMM applications
    • MME’s role in CMM
    • How an MME can move a company up the Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
  8. Understand the power of meta data
    • Meta data as the key to knowledge management
    • Meta data above and beyond data warehousing
    • Future direction of meta data
  9. Workshop conclusion
    • Summary, additional exercises, sources for further reading, etc.

Standard Duration

  • 3 days (may be customized as needed)

To learn more about how EWSolutions can provide our World-Class Training for your company or to request a quote, please feel free to contact David Marco, our Director of Education at DMarco@EWSolutions.com or call him at 630.920.0005 ext. 103.

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