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Wednesday, September 21st, 2005 - TUCC
We hope you joined DAMA Philadelphia/Delaware Valley to hear
Doug Laney
Information Management Specialist - Navigant
Consulting
and
Ron Steiger
Consultant
- Embarcadero Technologies
The Affects of Trends in the Data Management Industry on a Vendor
The Presenters:
Doug Laney is an information management specialist with Navigant Consulting, providing information strategy counsel to Navigant's global clientele. He is also founder and chief research officer with Evalubase Research, a market intelligence service offering continuous, peer-based technology insights and custom technology portfolio benchmarking.
Previously, he formed and managed META Group's Enterprise Analytics Strategies service. In this role he advised hundreds of organizations on product selection, implementation, development and marketing strategies. Mr. Laney is an internationally recognized expert on data warehousing, data quality and information asset management. Previously, he ran Prism Solutions’ Asia-Pacific consulting business and led product development for the
industry’s first commercial data warehouse project methodology offering. He also spent several years in the expert systems field managing the development of complex decision support and natural language query systems. Mr. Laney began his career with Andersen Consulting where he advanced to managing technical architecture design and development projects on multi-million dollar engagements.
Emergent Infomaniacs: Maximizing Information Asset Value
Organizations intending to initiate or respond to market shifts must have a solid inventory of what resources they have and how to leverage them optimally. Unfortunately, the typical focus on inventorying and managing financial, human and material assets ignores the wealth and potential embodied within an organization’s information assets. Businesses no longer can expect to compete effectively when treating information merely as a business by-product.
All information has value, whether to fuel business performance, to catalyze creativity and innovation, to reduce risk, to seal business partnerships, or to sell outright as a marketable asset. Only through increasingly mature information management practices, tools and cultures can organizations squeeze increasing value out of an ever-abundant array of information sources.
Based on his experience working with hundreds of enterprises, Mr. Laney will offer insights, best practices advice on advanced information management practices including:
· Solidifying (and simplifying) the information supply chain to achieve information flow efficiencies
· Capitalizing on subtransactional data (Details! Details!) to enhance performance at all business process levels
· Auditing information assets periodically to foster a culture of information accountability
· Ascending the information maturity model – how to benchmark your organization’s information maturity quotient
Frank Padavano has over 18 years of experience in Information Technology auditing with focus on the Financial Services, Insurance and Healthcare industries. Accume Partners delivers uniquely focused expertise in internal auditing, IT internal auditing, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and related risk management services to over 500 financial and commercial clients. Frank’s
responsibilities include managing the IT Audit practice in Accume Partners’ offices in
Sarbanes Oxley and the Impact on Information Technology
The Sarbanes Oxley law requires that all publicly traded companies be in compliance within stringent timelines for documenting and testing the internal controls over financial reporting (ICOFR). The focus of this 2002 law is that these companies maintain a series of controls that management must sign off on and acknowledge in the
company’s financial statements. This rule is now impacting privately held and non-for-profit businesses as well. Information Technology plays a critical and integral role in ensuring that the ICOFR are in place and effective. The far reaching impact of the IT control environment requires the CIO to be involved to the same extent as the CAO and other
executive officers whose responsibilities include ICOFR. Software development, information security, database management and other IT areas have great impact on SOX outcome reporting requirements. IT management is now responsible for maintaining a system of controls that can be audited.
Ron Stieger has spent the last seventeen years in the software industry. After graduating from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1988, he spent the next twelve years developing software at Nielsen Marketing Research and Pepsi, with a stint at publisher Grolier (now Scholastic) developing children’s software in between. Six years ago he moved to the vendor side
of the table, taking on more of a consultative role. During this time he has held positions with innovative companies in the Service Oriented Architecture and CRM space, Asera and Chordiant.
Ron is currently a Consultant with Embarcadero Technologies, a leader in the fields of Data and Meta-Data Management. At Embarcadero Ron works with customers on developing strategies to harvest and use Meta-Data effectively and moving data between systems.
The Affects of Trends in the Data Management Industry on a Vendor.
This business level presentation will cover trends in the data management and meta-data management industry from a vendors’ perspective. It will start with a basic discussion of trends in the data management industry from a technology and resource perspective and cover the way in which those trends have shaped how a vendor thinks about their solutions as a whole.
The presentation will discuss how Embarcadero is aligning their solutions with the needs of organizations throughout the world, and how Embarcadero is in turn driving the effective use of Meta-Data for everything from Sox Compliance to Application Development.
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