ISE EVENTS CALENDAR

Metadata --- a foundation for an IT-Dashboard

 

 

Where

Collaboration Lab (1st floor) CS&T Building, DePaul University LOOP Campus
243 S Wabash Avenue

Chicago, IL, 60604

When
Thursday, May 26, 2005
What

Metadata is pivotal to managing today’s IT-driven enterprise. Once the purview of database administrators, the scope of metadata has expanded to encompass all aspects of IT and business. IT service management, IT portfolio management, business compliance assurance, business intelligence and data warehousing all depend on metadata – as do application development and data design. Metadata is the DNA of the enterprise and of IT itself.

 This seminar provides a frame of reference for understanding metadata and a foundation for metadata management by answering the following questions:

  • What is Metadata?

  • Why is Metadata important to IT and business?

  • What are the types of Metadata?

  • Is there a taxonomy for classifying and relating Metadata?

  • How is Metadata used in IT and business?

  • How is Metadata managed?

  • What are governance and stewardship?

  • What tools and processes are available for Metadata management?

  •   What practical steps can I take to apply this understanding in my organization?

 While addressing these questions, attendees will be introduced to important issues and industry trends, including:

  • Managing IT as a business

  • Enterprise Architecture as a producer and consumer of Metadata

  • Relationship between ITIL / COBIT / BS15000 and Metadata

  • Operational and decision support Metadata stores

  • Enterprise metadata repositories as “configuration data integrators”

 This seminar is designed for IT management and technical professionals.
Who

Robert Eugene Shelton, Vice President Enterprise Architecture, Herzum Software

Robert Shelton, Vice President Enterprise Architecture for Herzum Software, directs the company’s enterprise services practice. The Enterprise Practice encompasses consulting and technology delivery in enterprise architecture, metadata management and IT services management best practices. Herzum Software is an international consulting firm specializing in IT strategy, enterprise architecture, software integration and agile software development.

Prior to joining Herzum Software, Mr. Shelton rearchitected the service activation and fulfillment systems for a major Internet service provider and managed the turnaround and re-launch of a video-on-demand software company. He founded Open Engineering in 1990, and as that company’s CEO, led development of the OOBE business engineering best practices and business architecture framework. During his 25 year career, Mr. Shelton also co-founded a software product company specializing in environmental hazard monitoring, co-founded an application service provider company that offered logistics and deal negotiation for the processed foods industry, and lead mission-critical architecture, development, integration and organization change efforts at Pacific Bell, Uchida Yoko, Robert Flemings Management Services, General Motors, Bell South and other leading organizations.

Mr. Shelton holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Stanford University. He founded the OMG Business Object Management Special Interest Group that gave rise to much of that organization’s business object activity. Mr. Shelton is a frequent speaker at industry conferences worldwide, served as Editor for such publications as Hotline on Object-Oriented Technology and Database Management Review, worked as a technology analyst specializing in service-oriented architecture and configuration management systems with Patricia Seybold Group, and has written numerous articles on enterprise architecture and IT management best practices for software industry journals.

 

Last Updated: April 8, 2005