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2-Day Seminar
XML in Data Management:
Strategic Implications and Implementations
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Overview
This course is for those who are getting started with XML and want
to tangibly benefit from its implementation - quickly. XML has transformed
the technology implementation, application development, enterprise
application integration (EAI), and data management practices for many
organisations. While they are not choosing to speak of it loudly, organisations
are saving $100s of millions in development, integration and data management
costs because of XML-based implementation.
This seminar presents a clear look at the strengths and weakness of XML so that you can most effectively benefit from the technologies. It will show you how to quickly and easily focus your XML capabilities in ways that easily help. You will learn how repeatable XML implementation will play an increasingly important role in business and systems engineering.
Seminar Features
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- How XML and technology implementation are inextricably linked as "the" new way of delivering solutions to enterprise capability challenges.
- How the existing XML component architecture ensures that it can provide the basis for solving many forms organisational challenges - now and in the future.
- Why XML enables organisations to implement solutions that are solid foundations for future development and not just the latest "silver bullet."
- How XML can compliment ERP initiatives and (in case you have not yet jumped onto the ERP bandwagon) and how XML can help you save money on and better utilise your existing ERP.
- Why XML is and will continue to be the cornerstone of e-business and e-commerce - without it your organisation cannot participate in this important business revolution.
- How XML will cause us to rethink the role of traditional data management technologies such as CASE tool(s) and repositories. Our perception of these will change from methodology specific monolithic applications to integrated utilities that far increase organisational technology capabilities.
- How the data management group can develop and deliver complete information delivery solutions to organisational clients - solving forever the "what have you done for me lately" problem.
- How organisations can easily and tangibly profit (from reduction in the amount of legacy code requiring management) from XML-based information delivery portals.
XML Basics
- What XML is and what it is not
- How does its technological format (a meta-language) provide organisations with a category of capabilities that it otherwise couldn't access
XML Usage
- What business problems can XML solve
- How complex is XML parsing
- How do management capabilities increase with XML implementation
- How XML is being used by organisations to save money, implement e-business and B2B initiatives, appreciate and evolve legacy applications and build XML-based application delivery.
XML Architecture
- How does XML work from an architectural perspective
- Overview of XML Architectural Components including: XML Elements, Attributes, Entities, DTDs, DOM, XSL, RDF, XLink, Xpointer. More importantly, the seminar will describe how each component provides organisations with significant and new technological capabilities.
XML Technologies
- What types of XML-based tools have been developed to assist in the development of XML applications and other tasks (for example BizTalk, EB-XML, and - of course .net from Microsoft™).
- How can these tools be incorporated on a basic level to increase organisational dexterity as in enterprise application integration, information marketplace hub interchange models (such as Envera), and other, capability-focused areas
XML, Information Delivery, and Reengineering
- What role will XML play in an expanded definition of information delivery/management and what have traditionally been two separate disciplines: business and systems reengineering. This section explores the role of XML in the integration of business and systems engineering. The requirements and promise for integration of management of unstructured data becomes a significant new capability to be integrated with more effective use of traditional organisational technological capabilities. These point to more flexible and adaptable information management challenges and associated technologies that must be mastered by organisational technology managers.
XML Technologies
- What are the XML-based implications for organizational CASE tool(s), metadata management, and repository usage
- How can these technologies play a role in XML implementation and specifically in structural data quality analyses?
XML-based Portal Technology
- How do XML-based portals give managers the ability to leverage advanced XML and Inter/Intranet technologies?
- How investments in this technology can be quantified conceptually.
- How XML-based portals can lead directly to tangible organisation cost savings using unconventional data quality engineering methods using ERPs as integration platforms and as knowledge management technologies
- CIO
- CTO
- IT Manager
- IT Consultant
- Systems Analyst
- Systems Manager
- Systems Developer
- Project Manager
- Enterprise Architect
- Data Architect
- Project Manager
- Business Analyst
- Data Manager
and anyone who is responsible for understanding the incorporation of strategies in technology implementation. This seminar assumes no prior knowledge of XML and teaches XML concepts but does not teach XML.
In-House Training
If you require a quote for running an in-house course,
please contact us with the following details:
- Subject matter and/or speaker required
- Estimated number of delegates
- Location (town, country)
- Number of days required (if different from the public course)
- Preferred date
Please contact:
Jeanette Hall
E-mail: jeanette.hall@irmuk.co.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8866 8366
Fax: +44 (0)1923 828 770
Speaker: Peter Aiken
Institute for Data Research
Peter Aiken is the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Data Research and an Associate Professor of Information Systems, Virginia Commonwealth University. He has worked with many organisations to help them form data management strategies and evaluate the use of new technologies within the area of data engineering and its relationship to systems and business engineering. In 2001 he was awarded the DAMA International Achievement Award and he has been a DAMA International Advisor since 1999. He is the author of Data Reverse Engineering and Clive Finkelstein's co-author of Building Corporate Portals Using XML (McGraw-Hill 1996/99). Mr. Aiken is the co-author of the book "XML in Data Management" published by Elsevier.
Endorsed by:
DAMA International
UK Chapter