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Metadata Solutions: An Overview
*This seminar is only offered on client site.

What is the best way to deal with your metadata mess? Metadata is everywhere, and it is not always in the best shape or location.  In today's environment, metadata's importance has reached frightening levels; yet, the strategies for creating it, maintaining its accuracy, and guaranteeing its accessibility always seem to fall short.

This seminar is geared toward providing a management overview of metadata and its associated management solutions.  Metadata is introduced and defined from perhaps the most solid IT angle imaginable.  The definition and perceived usefulness of metadata directly impact both the type of envisioned solution as well as the scope of its implementation.

A summarized approach to metadata requirements analysis and the resulting metamodels is presented before solutions are addressed.  Finally, various metadata situations are described, each presented with a suggested solution strategy.  Examples and strategies cover all types of metadata solution implementations including off-the-shelf repository tools, standalone vendor metadata stores, custom-built solutions, intranet solutions, and XML-based implementations.  Where appropriate, organization and methodology-based factors are incorporated into the discussion.

About Your Instructor

All Database Design Solutions, Inc. instructors are Consulting Associates with at least 15 years of data modeling and database design experience.  Their client assignments constantly broaden their industry-specific knowledge of business data and associated corporate data issues.

Adrienne Tannenbaum is President of Database Design Solutions, Inc., a consultancy specializing in the revitalization of corporate databases. She is the author of: Metadata Solutions: Using Metamodels, Repositories, XML, and Enterprise Portals to Achieve Information on Demand (2001, Addison Wesley: Boston, MA) as well as the first book on metadata solutions, Implementing a Corporate Repository: The Models Meet Reality (1994, Wiley: New York, NY). Adrienne is a major voice at most industry conferences and has lectured internationally.  She holds an MBA from Rutgers Graduate School of Management.

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