Questing for the Grail: The Post-mortem of a Federated Metadata Management Project
William Brooks
Data and Integration Architect
MFS Investment Management
Beginning in late 2002, MFS began developing a strategy for integrating and managing a wide variety of business and technical metadata. The centralized project team, within the company’s IT group, sought to develop an approach to store and provide access to metadata from physical databases, an XML-based messaging infrastructure, ETL tools, data modeling tools, and enterprise scheduling systems. The project accomplished many of its goals, but still fell far short of the “holy grail” it had intended to produce: a unified, universal Metadata Repository. Although not a stunning success, the project was far from a failure. Bill will explain the nature of the project, why it didn’t meet its original lofty goals, and the lessons that MFS has been able to integrate into its subsequent metadata (and data) management approach.
Comments (1)
K Reister said
at 1:37 pm on May 8, 2006
This was the best of the presentations that I attended!
Mr. Brooks is a great speaker.
His presentation was:
Very well put together.
Full of content. Very Clear and Fast paced.
Appropriate for both those who are thinking about creating a data repository or even those who have one. Mr. Brooks presents experience for us to learn from.
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