Enterprise Business Meta-data - A Starting Point
Manish Malhotra
President
bimethods, inc.
Having successfully developed and deployed this application at a leading financial institute, I would like to share my experiences and knowledge gained about this simple topic, which is a challenge to implement in an ever-changing complex business environment. Having practically implemented the system, I will discuss practical topics like the complete development cycle, including the logical data-model, system design, content addition and maintenance, reports and a possible change management process. Having written some articles one of which received widespread acceptance and positive feedback in last months Gavilan Research newsletter (published by Stu Carthy) the audience (CIO’s & Business User’s, Data Management Professionals) are in for a treat from this presentation.
Presentation excerpt:
- Business meta-data in terms of tracking essential business elements.
- Various characteristics that should be tracked for these elements e.g. criticality, preferred physical aspects etc. with explanations.
- Roles associated with these elements e.g. Data Stewards, Data Advocates, Subject Matter Experts (SME) etc.
- Logical and physical data-models.
- The toughest challenge of all: Integrating this information with technical and reference meta-data.
- How can this information help in compliance efforts like SOX and other industry standards
- Other areas of enhancement like: Business Meta-Data content change management: who should be involved and how to approach it in a large enterprise?
- Can an application be built in-house for this and how?
Comments (1)
Stephen Thompson said
at 4:51 pm on May 2, 2006
Hi Manish, I didn't introduce myself after your presentation, but I just wanted to thank you for a fantastic overview of business metadata. I'm on the business side and all of this hoopla over metadata has had me a little baffled. After I saw you presentation and a couple of others, I now feel like I understand the relevant business issues and can work with my team to create a solid strategy and foundation. Thanks again for the fantastic presentation.
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