SF-DAMA Organization - Current News and Recommended Seminars

2006-08-18T10:23:00.000-07:00

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Special Notice:

DAMA OFFERS CDMP WITH DAMA-ICCP DEVELOPED EXAMS

Through the Institute for the Certification of Computing Professionals (ICCP), of which DAMA is a member, we offer a Certified Data Management Professional program.

SF-DAMA EVENTS www.sfdama.org

Francois Cartier - Mapping Entities to Objects

January 9, 2008
Thinknicity 5 Third Street, #500, San Francisco, CA 94103(Click for map - just outside the Montgomery Street BART station)
Please RSVP to Jeff Pekrul

8:30 - 9:00
Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15
Welcoming Remarks
9:15 - 10:15
Mapping Entities to Objects
10:15 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 11:45
Continued Review and Working Session
11:45 - 12:00
Questions and Wrap-Up
12:00 - Lunch
Restaurant (to be announced at the meeting)

Mapping Entities to ObjectsPresenter: Francois Cartier Topics covered: - The context: a system built in layers according to ROOLSA (Relational Object Oriented System Architecture). - Key notions that make the mapping possible: normalization, entity types, and entity key dimensions. - The mapping process. - Challenges to the mapping process: multi-faced objects. - A closer look at ROOLSA layers 3 & 4: Logical Operations & Translation - Mapping and layer coding automation.

About the presenter: François Cartier has more than thirty years of diversified experience in Information Technology in a wide variety of commercial sectors, including telecommunications, transportation, manufacturing, wholesale, government agencies, insurance, and financial institutions. He has designed systems marrying relational with object-oriented technologies, built and contributed to corporate data models, designed operational and decision support databases under a variety of DBMSs. He has managed data analysis, system development, application support and IT change control teams. He has given classes at Golden Gate University, and made technical and management level presentations at various forums in the USA and Japan.

Data Quality in a Software-as-a-Service Environment

February 13, 2008
Blue Shield of California 225 Bush St (bet. Sansome & Montgomery) 19th floor, Room 19-023 SF/CA 94104(Click for map - around the corner from one of the Montgomery St. BART/Muni exits. )

Please RSVP to Jeff Pekrul

8:30 - 9:00
Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15
Welcoming Remarks
9:15 - 10:15
Data Quality in a Software-as-a-Service Environment
10:15 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 11:45
Continued Review and Working Session
11:45 - 12:00
Questions and Wrap-Up
12:00 - Lunch
Restaurant (to be announced at the meeting)

Data Quality in a Software-as-a-Service EnvironmentTopics covered: The presentation will examine the new business imperatives driving enterprise data integration, spotlight the drive to ensure data quality across the enterprise and beyond, and demonstrate how a unified enterprise data integration platform supports such major trends as Software as a Service (SaaS), Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), and Business Process Outsourcing.Presenter: TBD, Informatica

OTHER SEMINARS OF INTEREST:

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Upcoming TDWI Webinars
(All Webinars begin at 9:00 a.m. PT/12:00 noon ET)

Determining the Success of Your BI Initiative
9am PT/12pm ET--> Nov. 14

Data Warehouse - A Model Approach
Dates & Times: On Demand

Data is just bits and bytes if you aren't able to access it quickly and use it to provide answers to today's business problems. This on-demand Webcast will help you build a better data warehouse so you can make the best use of your data. Presenters are David Dichmann, senior product manager for PowerDesigner, and Matt Creason, Sybase senior systems consultant.
http://list.sourcemedia.com/t/5440042/2153996/958219/0/

Data Replication for Mixed Database Environments
Dates & Times: On Demand
Today's enterprise supports an increasingly complex data environment with third-party applications, legacy systems and homegrown solutions all in the mix. Linking customers, partners and account information across these disparate systems in a quick and timely fashion has become a critical success factor.
Learn how heterogeneous data replication solutions can extend the life and enhance the effectiveness of systems in mixed database environments. Malcolm Chisholm, a leader in the fields of master data, reference data management and business rules, and Dave Ebbels, a Sybase integration specialist, discuss ways to enable enterprise systems to perform and thrive across a wide range of database types.
www.dmreview.com/eletters/clickReg.cfm?URLID=5449

LINKS to other sites containing Data Management seminars and training:

http://www.b-eye-network.com/events/

http://www.wilshireconferences.com/

http://www.semantic-conference.com/

http://www.kimballgroup.com/html/events.html

http://www.dmreview.com/web/reg.cfm

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SF-DAMA Organization - Current News and Recommended Seminars