IPL has teamed up with Embarcadero Technologies Inc., a leading vendor of tools empowering application developers and database professionals, to launch an autumn 2008 web seminar series for Data Architects.
Entitled "Taking Data Modelling BEYOND the Database", each webinar focuses on a separate topic of significance to information-intensive enterprises. The webinars aim to show how data models can be leveraged to assist different areas of the enterprise. The stakes are high; getting metadata and models wrong can lead to costly inefficiencies and failing regulatory compliance.
These days Data Architects are asked to build much more than the classic data dictionary. The traditional entity and attribute definitions are simply not sufficient when it comes to truly documenting the data, processes and usage demanded by today's portfolio of diverse technologies.
Put simply, metadata and models must keep up. They need to support the basics that made modelling the right approach initially, but additionally they need to be increasingly agile and to evolve with the growing needs of the organization.
