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Host:   801 Market, 11th Floor

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Topic:  Universal Business Glossaries and Data Models:

Practical Tools, Techniques, and Approaches to Jump-Start Your Initiatives
By Len Silverston, President, Universal Data Models, LLC

Having clear, consistent, enterprise-wide, and agreed upon business glossary, terms and models can have a huge effect in improving productivity, facilitating more effective communications, decreasing costs of systems development and maintenance, increasing data quality, and enhancing systems integration.

Yet, so many organizations struggle to develop a commonly accepted vocabulary of business terms and models. Many of them fail due to excessive cost and it just taking too long.

This presentation provides tools and techniques to jump-start development of a business glossaries as well as associated data models using ‘universal’ constructs.

We will discuss case studies of organizations that successfully used these tools and developed a common business glossary as well as agreed upon models.

In this information, fun, and interactive seminar, Len Silverston will share:

- How to jump-start development of a business glossary and data models, saving huge costs and time

- Keys in developing a business glossary including how to Identify critical data elements, categorize terms, manage issues, and handle human factors.

- The greatest challenges regarding developing a ‘Universal’ business glossary and common models from decades of past experiences

- 16 important guidelines for developing definitions within the business glossary or for use in developing data model definitions

- Many examples of ‘Universal’ data constructs, models, data catalog structures, business terms, and definitions.

About Len Silverston

Len Silverston is a best-selling author, consultant, and speaker with over 30 years of experience helping organizations in various data governance and data management programs. Mr. Silverston is an internationally acclaimed expert and thought leader in the fields of data modeling, data governance, data management, and in the human dynamics of integrating information and has helped many organizations around the world implement successful data management and data governance programs.

He is the author of The Data Model Resource Book series (Volumes 1, 2, and 3), which describe hundreds of reusable data models. The volume 1 book was rated #12 on the Computer Literacy Best Seller List and his books have been translated into numerous languages. Mr. Silverston has published many articles and has been a keynote speaker at many international data conferences. He is the winner of the DAMA International Professional Achievement Award and the DAMA International Community Award. He has given many keynotes and has received the highest speaker rating at several international conferences. Mr. Silverston also provides seminars and writes articles in his column ‘Zen and the Art of Data Maintenance’ through ‘Zen With Len’, as he is an ordained Zen priest and shares how practices of awareness can help us in our data industry. Mr. Silverston's company, Universal Data Models, LLC, provides consulting, training, publications, and software to enable information integration.