The Data-Centric Manifesto

Speaker: Dave McComb of Semantic Arts

Description:
Data is a firm's primary asset. Applications are merely a way to access and update data. We all know this, and we all espouse this, but almost no one lives it. When a business unit wants new functionality the first thing they do is buy or build an application. The second thing they do is ask for help "converting" their data to the form that the new application needs. The third thing they do is ask for help in integrating this new application (with its own APIs) and this new data set (with its own data model) to the already existing information ecosystem. This isn't "a" prescription, this is "the" prescription for the deplorable state of enterprise information systems in the early 21st century. In this talk we outline the data-centric revolution, discuss the key enabling technologies and describe some case studies from firms who have begun this journey.

Preregistration:

Just email your first and last name and “Monday, September 26, Wellesley" to damabostonprereg@yahoo.com by 8pm on Thursday, September 22

Cost: free for DAMA New England members; $20 for non-members; includes dinner

Speaker bio:
Dave is a hands on practitioner and thought leader in the area of applying Semantic Technology to Enterprise Architecture and Applications.

For fourteen years as co-founder and President of Semantic Arts he has managed major Semantic Technology projects with over a dozen large enterprises, including Goldman Sachs, Broadridge Financial Systems, Procter & Gamble, Lexis Nexis, Sentara Healthcare, Sallie Mae, and seven different Agencies in
the States of Colorado, Texas and Washington.

Dave is the author of Semantics in Business Systems (Morgan Kaufmann) and was the co-founder of the Semantic Technology Conference, the go-to place for companies looking to commercialize semantics. He is a frequent speaker and writer on the topic and has inspired many to enter the field.

In the early 90’s Dave pioneered an approach to ontology development based on facilitated brainstorming in focused Semantic Modeling sessions. In the intervening 20 years he has lead over 200 of these sessions and built almost as many ontologies. Prior to founding Semantic Arts, Dave spent 13 years with Andersen Consulting (the part that became Accenture) designing and building Enterprise Applications for large firms including: Boise Cascade, Georgia Pacific, Wildish Construction, Norton Abrasives, the US Geological Survey, Bougainville Copper, US West and Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin). He founded First Principles and co-founded Velocity Healthcare.

wWho should attend:

• Application Programmers and Designers
• Big Data Practitioners
• Data Architects
• Data Administrators
• Data Administration Managers
• Data Managers
• Data Modelers
• Enterprise Data Architects
• IT Managers
• Metadata and Taxonomy Management Practitioners
• Ontologists
• SOA Architects After attending this meeting, you will be able to :
  Clearly articulate the cause of information system diseconomy and project overrun
  Explain why past efforts in this area have not been successful
  Outline the essential characteristics of next generation data architectures and platforms