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Q2 2010 St. Louis Area TDWI Chapter Meeting
The TDWI St. Louis Chapter cordially invites you to attend our upcoming meeting on Friday, May 21, 2010. Come meet other local BI/DW professionals, swap business cards, share ideas, and exchange career advice while listening to quality presentations in a vendor-neutral setting, which is the hallmark of TDWI education.
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When: |
Friday, May 21, 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. |
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Where: |
Wells Fargo Learning Center
1 North Jefferson Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63103
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Registration is required 72 hours in advance of the meeting for security purposes, so sign up early! Parking for the meeting will be available at 2800 Market Street Garage (4th and 5th floors). Guests may park in any spot that is not reserved.
This event is free of charge and open to all interested BI/DW professionals. Breakfast will be provided. |
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Agenda:
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8:00 - 8:30 a.m. |
Registration, Continental Breakfast and Networking |
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8:30 – 9:00 a.m. |
Opening Remarks
M. C. Sankar, Chapter President |
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9:00 - 10:00 a.m. |
Session 1:
"Master Data Management (MDM) – Build a Foundation for Success"
By John Ladley, EIM Lead for IMCue |
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Abstract:
An organization’s master data is becoming increasingly important to sell more, connect to customers and partners more effectively, and increase business performance. The way in which data about products, customers, suppliers, employees, and partners is created, used, and communicated is critical to success of the organization. MDM can enable organizations to find new and better ways to explore, understand, and act upon the information for a competitive advantage. To sustain this competitive advantage and achieve the most success in your MDM requires infrastructure, people, and processes to work in concert. In this event, John Ladley will talk about challenges you may encounter with your MDM initiative and discuss how to overcome these challenges to build a foundation for corporate success.
You will learn:
- What is MDM
- MDM as a strategic asset is a function of Infrastructure, People and Process
- How MDM Architecture is essential foundation for corporate performance
- How data governance impacts the MDM Program
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10:00 - 10:30 a.m. |
Networking Break |
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10:30 - 11:30 a.m. |
Session2:
"Managing the Warehouse Through Major Changes: Mergers and Acquisitions = New SORs"
by Scott Wilton, Vice President, Wells Fargo Advisors – Data Management |
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Abstract:
The St. Louis area has experienced more merger and acquisition activity in the last decade than almost any other city in the country. Through it all, the historical data from both firms must be preserved and remain accessible to support the needs of business on a go-forward basis. Join Scott for an interactive discussion about how to manage the data warehouse through major changes like mergers, acquisitions, and new systems of record (SORs). Scott will share his experiences leading several different organizations through the technical and organizational challenges of combining the historical data from two distinct companies into a unified data warehouse. He will also encourage the audience to share their experiences so that we can leverage the lessons learned among the practitioners within the TDWI chapter.
Topics will include:
• Fork-lifting history to the retained DW platform for legal & compliance usage
• Commingling history into the go-forward data structures for combined reporting and analytics
• Technical challenges: DBMS differences, huge data volumes, complex transformation rules, narrow conversion windows, etc.
• Source system changes: data profiling, implicit business rules, managing conversion events, etc.
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11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Raffles and Closing Remarks |
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Space is limited so sign up early! To become a member at a 10% discount, please click here and use priority code stlchp1. For more information about TDWI Membership, contact chapters@tdwi.org.
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Bios of Presenters
John Ladley is a Business Technology Thought Leader and Executive with 30 years experience in planning, project management, improving IT organizations and successful implementation of information systems. John is a widely-known data warehouse pioneer and a recognized authority in the use and implementation of business intelligence, information architectures and knowledge management. Mr. Ladley began writing about Enterprise Information Management in the late 90's. He is a demonstrated leader, offering communications skills and management techniques gained in Fortune 100 companies, Big 5 consulting firms and as an industry analyst. John heads the EIM practice area at IMCue.
He has served as a META Group Research Fellow, and was a board advisor to DAMA International. He is widely published, co-authoring a well-known data warehouse methodology, and trademarked process for data strategy planning. John frequently writes and speaks on a variety of technology and enterprise information management topics. He co-authored "Data Warehouse, Advice from the Experts" in 1996 and has had regular columns in various publications. His Information Management experience is balanced between strategic technology planning, project management and practical application of technology to business problems.
Scott Wilton currently leads the Data Design team at Wells Fargo Advisors and has 12 years of data warehousing experience in both industry and consulting. Scott has had leadership roles in all disciplines within the warehousing space (data governance, modeling, ETL, BI, and testing/data quality) and had managed 4 different large data warehouse environments through major re-platforming events. Scott has an MBA from the University of Michigan specializing in Corporate Strategy and Information Systems.
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