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Metadata At The Crossroads…Metadata At The Crossroads…
September 15, 2011September 15, 2011
A Relentless Pursuit Of Implementations And Applications Of Metadata-Enabled Management To Maximize The Value Of Investment In Information technology …
Ian Rowlands, Senior Director of Strategy, ASG
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Agenda
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Some History
1974 (approximately) : MSP Datamanager
1986 R&O Rochade
2001 Soamai becubic
2009 ASG-metaGlossary
2011 ASG-METAMDM
BrownstoneBrownstone
ReltechReltech LA
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Repo
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The Crossroads
Metadata management as a capability to optimize essential IT functions
Metadata management as a capability to enable real-time IT
Metadata management as a capability to optimize essential BUSINESS functions
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ASG deploys a valuable and increasingly interconnected set of metadata solutions – but it’s not enough!
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How The World Is Changing
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Megatrends: The Metadata Explosion
Syntactic (Structural) Richness
Semantic (M
eaning) Richness
"Much of the work of finding, interpreting and connecting relevant pieces of information, negotiating meanings and eliciting knowledge in conversations with others, creating new ideas and using them to come up with a final product, happens in the head of a knowledge worker or as part of communication or doing work."
(Efimova 2004)
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Risk of information misuse•Misinterpreted information•Bad decisions•Using the wrong information•Using the right information incorrectly•Using information that is
out of date
Risk of corporate exposure•Governance and compliance•Data theft•Criminal and corporate liability•Loss of intellectual property• Legal repercussions
Risk of business inertia•Inability to find information in a timely manner•Inability to combine information•Failure to collaborate
Risk of excessive cost•Loss of IT investment •Significant training/retraining•Recreating existing work product•Assistance required to find information
How can information risks
be mitigated?
Increasing IT Driven Business Risk
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The Demand For A Changing IT Cost Model
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The Demand For A Changing IT Cost Model
As a business resource, information technology today looks a lot like electric power did at the start of the last century [when manufacturers built and maintained their own generators]. Companies go to vendors to purchase various components — computers, storage drives, network switches and all sorts of software — and cobble them together into complex information-processing plants, or data centers, that they house within their own walls. They hire specialists to maintain the plants, and they often bring in outside consultants to solve particularly thorny problems. Their executives are routinely sidetracked from their real business — manufacturing automobiles, for instance, and selling them at a profit — by the need to keep their company’s private IT infrastructure running smoothly.
Nicholas G. Carr, The End of Corporate Computing, MIT Sloan Management Review, Spring 2005
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All of the items types and all of the potential relationships implied by all of the subject models would be enormous! In practice, each enterprise uses its own unique combination to form the enterprise model
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Refining The Subject Model
Terminology
Content Process Data
ServicesApplications
Terminology – describing business concepts is, in a sense, the “master” and bridges the other “subjects”
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The User Interface Challenge
Business Users don’t want a special user interface – maybe not even a search box – but information at the click of a mouse!
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