Successful Information Management is critical for business success; Business Process Management, Web 2.0 and Service-Oriented Architecture can only succeed where there is a common understanding of the meaning, availability and provenance of data. How can your systems be integrated, if you can't agree how long your account numbers are, how many lines there are in a customer’s address, or the mandatory data required when creating a customer? Reduce the risk and costs of integrating your business systems, by generating your XML Schemas from a canonical data model.

Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010  
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific
 
Topics will include:

• Why you should use a canonical data model
• Which canonical model should you use
• What if you manage it all in XML
• What if you leverage your enterprise or other common business model
• A practical demonstration using a popular data modelling tool
• What other approaches are available for generating XSDs

About the Speaker:
 
George McGeachie has worked in the field of modelling and metadata since the 1980s, in the UK and recently in Saudi Arabia. George's first IT role utilized the ICL Data Dictionary System, which generated application systems and databases from a metadata repository. Has the world progressed since those days?