Member Events Calendar

• February 11, 2010 - MagicDraw & Blu Age Joint Webinar - Get the best of your UML models: generate 100% of your Web and Rich Internet Applications!  - Thursday, February 11, 2010  10am EST

  No Magic, Inc., and Blu Age Corp. have combined their technologies, jointly releasing highly innovative, new generation software development bundles which automatically generate executable programming code from UML business models.
  Attend this exciting live webinar and discover how you can get the best of your UML models by generating up to 100% of your Web and Rich Internet Applications!
  
  This webinar will detail how the use of Model2Code tools (including MagicDraw UML) helps automate Spring, JavaEE or Flex based enterprise application development. It does so by providing a high level UML modelling approach for structuring application business logic and agile model-driven transformation features for generating ready to deploy applications. Presenters will highlight the new features of MagicDraw and TeamWork Server, and demonstrate how BluAge’ Model2Code works with this award winning CASE tool to build and generate business applications, without significant manual coding.

   

• February 15-16, 2010 - Data Modelling Fundamentals - Steve Hoberman,  London, UK
  
  This seminar and workshop contains a complete explanation of data modelling concepts and terminology, along with techniques for producing solid relational and dimensional data models. This course is designed to give you a practical understanding of data modelling that can be applied to your current projects.  It is for anyone who needs formal data modelling training. This includes those new to data modelling or in need of a refresher who need to be able to understand, build, or implement data models as part of their job.

  Delegates will learn:

  • Data modelling concepts and terminology
  • How to read a data model
  • Steps to building a subject area model
  • Logical data modelling techniques of normalization, abstraction, and dimensionality
  • Physical data modelling techniques of denormalization, partitioning, views, and indexing 
    
     
• February 17-18, 2010 - Data Modelling Masterclass- Steve Hoberman, London, UK
  
  This interactive seminar and workshop is for anyone who already knows modelling fundamentals and is seeking more advanced techniques.  In this Masterclass, delegates will first apply a best practices approach to building and validating data models through the Data Model Scorecard™, a tool for validating data model quality. Delegates will then focus on a collection of intermediate and advanced modelling techniques, including advanced normalization and enterprise data modelling. The final section contains guidelines used to gain consistency across data models in areas such as in abstraction and whether to star schema or snowflake.

  Delegates will learn:

  • How to apply the Data Model Scorecard™
  • Advanced normalization rules and limitations of the logical data model
  • A value-driven approach to building the enterprise data model
  • Techniques for converting the logical into an physical design
  • Factors to consider in deciding whether to Star Schema or Snowflake
  • Three key questions to ask yourself before you abstract
  • When to use a surrogate key

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• February 23-25, 2010 - Mastering the Requirements Process - Suzanne Robertson,  London, UK
  
  Requirements are the most misunderstood part of systems development, and yet the most crucial. Requirements must be correct if the rest of the development effort is to succeed. This workshop presents a complete process for eliciting the real requirements, testing them for correctness, and recording them clearly, comprehensibly and unambiguously. 

  Delegates will learn:

  • Determine your client's needs—exactly
  • Write requirements that are complete, traceable, and testable
  • Precisely define the scope of the project
  • Discover all the stakeholders—and keep them involved
  • Use up-to-date techniques such as storyboarding and e-collaboration
  • Get the requirements quickly, and incrementally

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• March 2-3, 2010 - Zachman Certification - Zachman Enterprise Architecture MasterClass™ Part 1: Framework Fundamentals 
  John Zachman,  London, UK

  This two day seminar, presented by John Zachman himself, Father of Enterprise Architecture, is designed for enterprise professionals of every discipline including non-information disciplines as well as information disciplines. The seminar provides the bedrock for understanding Enterprise Architecture and The Zachman Framework™. Seminar topics include Business Drivers for Enterprise Architecture; The Zachman Framework™; Architecture versus Implementation; Enterprise Architecture Implementation Practicalities; Four Frameworks for Knowledge Management; Simplifying the Enterprise; Reducing I/S 'Time-to-Market'; Federated Architecture.

  Delegates will learn:

  • A sense of urgency for aggressively pursuing Enterprise Architecture
  • A comprehensive definition (description) of Enterprise Architecture
  • A "language" (that is, a Framework) for improving enterprise communications about architecture issues
  • An understanding of basic Enterprise "physics" - laws of nature that govern Enterprise implementations
  • Differentiation of < Enterprise Architecture from Systems Implementation
  • A strategy for reducing "time-to-market" for systems implementations to virtually zero
  • Some pragmatic approaches for implementing Enterprise-wide strategies
  • Strategy for integration beyond jurisdiction (Interoperability)
  • Architectural Principles for meeting enterprise requirements 
  • A list of resources to facilitate architectural work

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• March 4-5, 2010 - Zachman Certification - Zachman Enterprise Architecture MasterClass™ Part 2: Enterprise Implementation 
  Stan Locke, London, UK

  This seminar will show you how to strategically implement Enterprise Architecture in your organization. It will explain how the underlying constructs of the Zachman Framework™ support business agility and demonstrate this with real world examples of what to do and not to do when architecting an Enterprise.

  Delegates will learn:

  • To enable the participant to use the framework as a tool for thinking about business and technology
  • To consider framework implications for integration when making enterprise design decisions
  • To understand the underlying framework constructs of fractals and other frameworks
  • To be able to select appropriate implementation strategies for the delegate’s organization and explain the rationale for them
  • To understand how implementation composites can be assembled from primitive cell elements
  • To review framework implementations in business, not for profit and government situations

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• March 8-10, 2010 - Zachman Enterprise Modelling Workshop & Certification - Stan Locke,  London, UK
  
  This workshop is only applicable to delegates who have attended the Enterprise Architecture Masterclass Parts 1 and 2. It is the final required component for completion of the Zachman Certification. It is designed to bridge the gap between the conceptual and the practical. The concepts presented in the MasterClass provide the bedrock for understanding Enterprise Architecture and The Zachman Framework™, however the catalyst for bringing these concepts together is application. The modelling workshop is designed for just that - applied knowledge.
  
  Delegates will learn:
  • Build primitive models for every Cell of The Framework.
  • Build the Enterprise's Architecture piece by piece.
  • Integrate the Enterprise implementation by (horizontal) associations.
  • Ensure alignment and transformation Quality through the (vertical) associations.
  • Define implementation phase boundaries (Enterprise Architecture planning).
  • Use Enterprise Architecture in the day-to-day management and operation of the Enterprise.

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• March 9-10, 2010 -  Finance for IT Decision Makers - Michael Blackstaff,  London, UK
  
  Some organizations are able to invest their way out of recession; others unfortunately are having to cut back, at least temporarily, by disinvesting, canceling or delaying IT or other projects. Fortunately the same methods for determining their financial effect are applicable to all these activities. The purpose of this practical seminar is to facilitate the making of financially sound decisions about IT, whatever the circumstances.
  
  Delegates will learn:
  • How to construct an IT cost/benefit financial case from given data
  • Evaluate an IT cost/benefit case financially
  • Use various methods for financing IT
  • Explain various other IT-relevant aspects of finance
  • Interpret the Accounts of an organization and explain how IT services, software and hardware are dealt with therein
  • Explain some key financial ratios and their relevance in an IT context
  • Understand those elements of financial jargon that are inescapable

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• March 15-18, 2010 - Cloud Connect - Santa Clara Convention Center

  Don't miss Cloud Connect, the first event to bring together developers, executives and IT professionals to explore and define the cloud. See the latest cloud technologies and learn from thought leaders in Cloud Connect's comprehensive conference and expo.
  
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• March 22-23, 2010 - Enterprise Level Business Process Management - Roger Burlton,  London, UK

  This seminar, presented by Roger Burlton, a BPM Pioneer, provides a comprehensive examination of the state of the art in Enterprise-level Business Process Management (BPM). It addresses innovations in ways of managing processes as assets of the enterprise. It focuses on maintaining the critical role that processes play in the alignment of the strategic objectives of the organization with what people do every day..

  Delegates will learn:

  • Understand what's new in BPM practices and how these may work for you strategically
  • Be able to apply enterprise and process level techniques that are practical
  • How to set up an internal pragmatic BPM Centre of Expertise
  • Learn how to sell the Enterprise BPM value proposition and gain cross-organization acceptance
  • Be able to develop a process architecture that is the foundation for planning, budgeting, organization design, compliance, change management, SOA and the introduction of breakthrough BPMS technologies
  • See how to institute day-today process management and governance for continued progress

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• March 22 - 24, 2010 - Gartner Business Process Management Summit - Las Vegas, NV
  
  At this year’s summit, you'll take away valuable insights and information that fit your industry, experience level and area of involvement. Connect with people who know BPM best and collaborate with colleagues while you experience case studies, best practice sessions and private consultations with Gartner analysts to deliver insights based on real-world situations.

  Whether your focus is BPM technology or the business initiatives it supports, you’ll take away valuable insights and information that fit your industry, experience level and area of involvement. Connect with the people who know BPM best and collaborate with your colleagues while you experience case studies, best practice sessions and private consultations with Gartner analysts to deliver insights based on real-world situations, experiences and lessons learned in the field.
  
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• March 24-26, 2010 -  Business Process Modelling, Analysis and Design - Kathy Long,  London, UK

  This workshop specifically addresses the tactical aspects of process improvement project work. It is unique in that it is built around a case study developed by the participants in team workshops. Consequently, participants leave with real world knowledge that can be used for accelerating their own projects

  Delegates will learn:

  • The importance of properly managing the "people" aspect of process redesign
  • Critical Success Factors for process improvement
  • Practical process modeling and analysis and design techniques
  • How to avoid creeping project scope and analysis paralysis
  • The recommended tools currently available
  • Tips and Techniques for avoiding common pitfalls in process improvement projects

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• April 12-14, 2010 -  Information Quality Improvement - Larry English,  London, UK

  Poor information quality costs organizations 10-20% of operating revenue in process failure and “information scrap and rework” in direct costs with missed opportunity costs often greater.

  This seminar, presented by Larry English, Father of Information Quality, describes quality principles applied to business and systems processes in order to achieve effective business performance. It provides guidelines for implementing an effective IQ environment

  Delegates will learn:

  • How to define information quality and its three components
  • Describe categories of information quality tools and how to use them
  • Describe how to measure information definition and content quality
  • Describe how to measure costs of non quality information
  •  Describe how to re-engineer and correct data and implement audits and control for data movement
  • Conduct an information quality process improvement initiative 
  • Describe how to organize and manage an information quality environment

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• April 12 - 16 - 3 Events, One Location - Las Vegas, NV
  
  From April 12 – 16, three relevant Gartner Summits will take place during the same week that will help you take your information management and architecture capabilities to the next level. Spend the week with us and have full access to all of these events:

  
  

  • At the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit, you will learn how BI and performance management can provide you with the insights and metrics you need to make better decisions more quickly.
    
  • At the Gartner Master Data Management Summit, discover how to enable growth and improve efficiency, risk management and compliance by creating a single view of your customers, products and suppliers.
    
  • At the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit, hear how our brand-new “hybrid thinking” on EA can help you better harmonize your business and IT priorities and adjust to more distributed, “chaotic” business and collaboration models
    
    The Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2010 will provide a strong foundation for the establishment of a successful enterprise architecture (EA) program, explore how EA affects and is affected by critical technologies, and introduce groundbreaking innovations in EA and business strategy thinking that will be mandatory for many organizations in the not-too-distant future.

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• April 13-14, 2010 -  Successfully Aligning Business and IT - Jeroen Derynck, London, UK

  This seminar introduces the major alignment concerns that companies face today and aims at offering a pragmatic approach towards alignment, which is underpinned with rock solid models and real-life lessons learned from various companies and sectors who have achieved better Business/IT alignment.

  Delegates will learn:

  • Alignment models and mechanisms for improving the relationship between business and IT
  • Organizational concepts and impact towards alignment: what works and what does not?
  • Positioning of IT, building trust and putting IT on the map
  • Building a lasting relationship towards management and towards the board
  • How to implement alignment, how to manage the change towards an aligned IT, and how to maintain alignment
  • Best-Practice in alignment and how to avoid over-engineering of alignment structures

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• April 15-16, 2010 - The Corporate Strategy for IT - Chris Potts,  London, UK

  This seminar and workshop provides a framework for deeply integrating IT with corporate and business strategies, and explores its impact on the organization's people, investments, operating costs, Enterprise Architecture, and sourcing decisions.  It harnesses the energy of business-led strategies for exploiting IT, to create maximum total value. It also makes transparent the linkages between business decisions and IT costs – often with some very surprising results

  Delegates will learn:

  • From the experiences of other companies
  • Rapidly formulate the Corporate Strategy for IT in collaboration with business leaders
  • Integrate IT with corporate and business strategies, and keep it that way
  • Transform IT costs and budgets into a portfolio of investments in business change
  • the contribution and influence of IT expertise at all stages of the investment process

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• April 19-21, 2010 - Data Governance Conference Europe 2010 -  London, UK
  
  Data Governance has emerged as a new discipline in response to both regulatory requirements as well as business necessity. This conference will focus on the “how to’s” in data governance from getting started to achieving data governance maturity.

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• April 19-21, 2010 - Master Data Management Summit Europe 2010 - London, UK
  
  The 5th Annual MDM Summit Europe 2010 is Europe's premier event dedicated specifically to MDM, CDI, PIM and Data Governance.

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• April 22-23, 2010 - SOA: Technology, Products & Best Practices for Designing SOAs - Rick van der Lans, London, UK

  Due to mergers, new regulations and market changes, companies are looking at what SOA could mean for them. For some, SOA will be the basis for the automation of business processes. Others see it as a means to gradually remove their legacy systems, and others see it as a means to transform their organization into an agile organization - one that can adapt quicker to market changes and opportunities. This seminar presents an in-depth overview of the products and the technologies that are available today to develop SOA. It will also describe the crucial guidelines when designing SOA. The seminar is based on experiences gained at several SOA projects.

  Delegates will learn:

  • Learn how an organization could benefit from SOA
  • Learn how different technologies are needed to develop SOA
  • Understand what the differences are between SOA-related technologies and other older integrations solutions
  • Learn how an Enterprise Service Bus speeds up the development of SOA Avoid well known pitfalls
  • Avoid well known pitfalls
  • Learn from real life experiences and understand the best practices for designing services and interfaces
  • Learn about the different service layers that make up a loosely coupled SOA

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• April 26-27, 2010 - Mastering Business Analysis - James Robertson & James Archer, London, UK

  Business analysis provides the foundation for almost every kind of business change. The craft of business analysis is to investigate the business, to find its problem hot spots and recommend ways to improve them.  This two-day seminar and workshop in business analysis gives you the skills and tools to discover your client's real business, and to determine and demonstrate the best ways of improving it.

  Delegates will learn:

  • Discover real business needs, not just the most talked-about ones.
  • Improve the business processes by applying automationor other means.
  • Define the most beneficial scope for the analysis project.
  • Use models to understand and communicate the business processes, and ensure stakeholders also understand.
  • Understand how to employ business events as a way of partitioning the business for easier understanding.
  • Be better at interpersonal communication.
  • Think systemically, and find truly the best way to improve your client's business.
  • Be a better business analyst

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• April 26-27, 2010 - Working with the Business: Consulting Skills for IT Professionals -  London, UK

  Being right isn’t enough. One of the major challenges – often the greatest challenge – is engaging the client: understanding their requirements, winning their support, and meeting their expectations. Yet most IT professionals give far less attention to these consulting skills than they give to their technical expertise. If you are an experienced professional who has not previously studied consulting skills, this workshop is likely to be more valuable in improving your effectiveness than any technical course .

  Delegates will learn:

  • A deeper understanding of consulting relationships – and how to make them work
  • Practical techniques for establishing expectations – checklists and questions
  • A set of practices to keep assignments on track
  • Techniques for dealing with problems and difficult clients
  • Practical approaches to writing reports and delivering presentations

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• April 29-30, 2010 - DW 2.0: Next Generation of Data Warehousing - Bill Inmon,  London, UK

  In the two decades that data warehousing has been around, there has been much change.  Today, there are many different renditions of what a data warehouse is and there is no integrity in the definition of what a data warehouse is.  Now there is DW 2.0 which is the definition of data warehouse architecture for the future of data warehousing.  In this 2 day seminar, Bill Inmon, the Father of Data Warehouse, describes what DW 2.0 is and addresses what data warehousing for the future will look like. 

  Delegates will learn:

  • What the architecture for the future of data warehousing looks like
  • How metadata fits into DW 2.0
  • The levels of data of DW 2.0 - interactive, integrated, near line, archival
  • How unstructured data can be gathered and integrated into a data warehouse
  • The flow of data from outside of DW 2.0, into DW 2.0 and out of DW 2.0
  • Why data warehouses do not have to cost a huge amount of money, even when they contain a lot of data and have lots of users
  • The fundamental transformation of data that takes place as data passes through ETL processing
  • The role of new data warehouse technologies such as Talend, Dataupia, SeaTab, Kalido, and others
  • The migration path from existing 1st generation data warehouses to DW 2.0
  • The issues of data base design in different parts of the DW 2.0 environment
  • The issues of building a data warehouse on a fluid foundation that can be changed as business requirements change

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• May 10-14, 2010 -  TOGAF™ 9
  
  May 10-11, 2010, London - TOGAF™ 9  Level 1 Foundation
  May 12-14, 2010, London  - TOGAF™ 9  Level 2 Certified
  -Paul van der Merwe

  TOGAF™ 9  Level 1 Foundation and TOGAF™ 9  Level 2 Certified prepare delegates for the Open Group’s Level 1 and Level 2 Certification Examination.  

  May 10-11, 2010, London- Level 1 provides an overview of TOGAF™ 9 and will introduce delegates to all the components of TOGAF™ 9.  The terminology, structure, and basic concepts of TOGAF™ 9 will be covered as well as the core principles of Enterprise Architecture and TOGAF™. 

  May 12-14, 2010, London- In Level 2, delegates will learn the practical application of TOGAF™ 9 framework, building on the foundational knowledge and comprehension of Level 1, using practical scenarios to enforce concepts.

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• May 17, 2010 - Designing the Enterprise for Rapid Change: A One Day Strategic Briefing by the ‘3 Amigos’
  John Zachman, Roger Burlton and Ron Ross on today’s most urgent business and IT issues, London, UK

  If you are involved in where your company's business processes and IT architecture are going, you don't want to miss this one-day event on Enterprise Architecture Planning, Enterprise Business Process Management and Enterprise Decision Management and Business Rules.  Presented by 3 of the world’s most renowned experts on IT, find out what you need to know about designing the enterprise for rapid change. 

  Spend a day with the world-class thought leaders on business innovation through business architecture and business-driven requirements and planning. Find out what 'doing the right things in the right way' really means. Find out how your company can put the "business" back in "business processes", "business rules," and "business architecture".   Find out how your business can ...

  • Regain control of its planning, development, and transformation practices.
  • Architect and engineer itself for maximum agility. 
  • Make the most of its strategic investment in IT.

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• May 24-25, 2010 - Business Rules and Decisioning Masterclass -Ron Ross, London, UK

  This hands-on workshop gives you the essential tools you need to achieve order-of-magnitude improvements in your company's capacity to manage decisions. The result is simpler, smarter process models and a huge boost in business agility. Learn applied techniques from the recognized world leader in the field.

  Delegates will learn:
  • Conduct smarter, more effective business analysis
  • Identify and analyze decisions in business processes
  • Capture business rules
  • Write clear, business-friendly rule statements
  • Create robust decision tables
  • Identify anomalies in decision logic and correct them early
  • Perform concept analysis and develop a structured business vocabulary
  • Develop a pragmatic rule management approach

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• June 16-18, 2010 - Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2010 - London, UK

  Explore what it takes to be a responsive business with agile processes, systems and technologies.  This 11^th Annual Enterprise Architecture Conference will evaluate what works best in different business environments, and what doesn’t, through practical case studies and examples from Global 2000 companies and major public services. 

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• September 13-15, 2010 - Mastering the Requirements Process - Suzanne Robertson,  London, UK

  Requirements are the most misunderstood part of systems development, and yet the most crucial. Requirements must be correct if the rest of the development effort is to succeed. This workshop presents a complete process for eliciting the real requirements, testing them for correctness, and recording them clearly, comprehensibly and unambiguously. 

  Delegates will learn:

  •  Determine your client's needs—exactly
  • Write requirements that are complete, traceable, and testable
  • Precisely define the scope of the project
  • Discover all the stakeholders—and keep them involved
  •  Use up-to-date techniques such as storyboarding and e-collaboration
  • Get the requirements quickly, and incrementally

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• September 14-16, 2010 - 8th International Conference on Business Process Management - Stevens Institute of Technology and IBM, Hoboken, New Jersey

BPM 2010 is the eighth conference in a series that provides the most distinguished forum for researchers and practitioners in all aspects of BPM including theory, frameworks, methods, techniques, architectures, systems, and empirical findings. The conference has a record of attracting innovative research of highest quality, from a mix of disciplines including Computer Science, Management Information Science, Services Computing, Services Science, and Technology Management. The acceptance rate at the BPM conference has traditionally been around 15%. In addition to showcasing leading research, the conference provides a venue for the discussion of BPM education, the demonstration of innovative systems with BPM functionalities, and an exchange among BPM practitioners. For more information please see: http://www.bpm2010.org/

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• September 20-21, 2010 - Data Modelling Fundamentals - Steve Hoberman, London, UK

  This seminar and workshop contains a complete explanation of data modelling concepts and terminology, along with techniques for producing solid relational and dimensional data models. This course is designed to give you a practical understanding of data modelling that can be applied to your current projects.  It is for anyone who needs formal data modelling training. This includes those new to data modelling or in need of a refresher who need to be able to understand, build, or implement data models as part of their job.

  Delegates will learn:

  • Data modelling concepts and terminology
  • How to read a data model
  •  Steps to building a subject area model
  • Logical data modelling techniques of normalization, abstraction, and dimensionality
  •  Physical data modelling techniques of denormalization, partitioning, views, and indexing 

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• September 22-23, 2010 - Data Modelling Masterclass - Steve Hoberman,  London, UK

  This interactive seminar and workshop is for anyone who already knows modelling fundamentals and is seeking more advanced techniques.  In this Masterclass, delegates will first apply a best practices approach to building and validating data models through the Data Model Scorecard™, a tool for validating data model quality. Delegates will then focus on a collection of intermediate and advanced modelling techniques, including advanced normalization and enterprise data modelling. The final section contains guidelines used to gain consistency across data models in areas such as in abstraction and whether to star schema or snowflake.

  Delegates will learn:

  • How to apply the Data Model Scorecard™
  • Advanced normalization rules and limitations of the logical data model
  •  A value-driven approach to building the enterprise data model
  • Techniques for converting the logical into an physical design
  •  Factors to consider in deciding whether to Star Schema or Snowflake
  •  Three key questions to ask yourself before you abstract
  • When to use a surrogate key

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• September 27-29, 2010 - Business Process Management Conference Europe 2010 - London, UK

  This conference will discuss what it takes to align strategy, processes and services.  The emphasis will be on the practical aspects of making BPM work, on both initiating and sustaining BPM.  The conference will consist of pre-conference workshops and 3 conference tracks.  There will be novice and advanced practitioner sessions.

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• October 12-13, 2010 - Zachman Certification - Zachman Enterprise Architecture MasterClass™ Part 1: Framework Fundamentals . John Zachman, London, UK

  This two day seminar, presented by John Zachman himself, Father of Enterprise Architecture, is designed for enterprise professionals of every discipline including non-information disciplines as well as information disciplines. The seminar provides the bedrock for understanding Enterprise Architecture and The Zachman Framework™. Seminar topics include Business Drivers for Enterprise Architecture; The Zachman Framework™; Architecture versus Implementation; Enterprise Architecture Implementation Practicalities; Four Frameworks for Knowledge Management; Simplifying the Enterprise; Reducing I/S 'Time-to-Market'; Federated Architecture.

  Delegates will learn:

  • A sense of urgency for aggressively pursuing Enterprise Architecture
  • A comprehensive definition (description) of Enterprise Architecture
  • A "language" (that is, a Framework) for improving enterprise communications about architecture issues
  • An understanding of basic Enterprise "physics" - laws of nature that govern Enterprise implementations
  • Differentiation of Enterprise Architecture from Systems Implementation
  • A strategy for reducing "time-to-market" for systems implementations to virtually zero
  • Some pragmatic approaches for implementing Enterprise-wide strategies
  • Strategy for integration beyond jurisdiction (Interoperability)
  • Architectural Principles for meeting enterprise requirements 
  • A list of resources to facilitate architectural work

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• October 14-15, 2010 - Zachman Certification - Zachman Enterprise Architecture MasterClass™ Part 2: Enterprise Implementation. Stan Locke,  London, UK

  This seminar will show you how to strategically implement Enterprise Architecture in your organization. It will explain how the underlying constructs of the Zachman Framework™ support business agility and demonstrate this with real world examples of what to do and not to do when architecting an Enterprise.

  Delegates will learn:

  • To enable the participant to use the framework as a tool for thinking about business and technology
  • To consider framework implications for integration when making enterprise design decisions
  • To understand the underlying framework constructs of fractals and other frameworks
  • To be able to select appropriate implementation strategies for the delegate’s organization and explain the rationale for them
  • To understand how implementation composites can be assembled from primitive cell elements
  • To review framework implementations in business, not for profit and government situations

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• October 18-20, 2010 - Zachman Enterprise Modelling Workshop & Certification - Stan Locke, London, UK
  
  This workshop is only applicable to delegates who have attended the Enterprise Architecture Masterclass Parts 1 and 2. It is the final required component for completion of the Zachman Certification. It is designed to bridge the gap between the conceptual and the practical. The concepts presented in the MasterClass provide the bedrock for understanding Enterprise Architecture and The Zachman Framework™, however the catalyst for bringing these concepts together is application. The modelling workshop is designed for just that - applied knowledge.
  
  Delegates will learn:
  • Build primitive models for every Cell of The Framework.
  • Build the Enterprise's Architecture piece by piece.
  • Integrate the Enterprise implementation by (horizontal) associations.
  • Ensure alignment and transformation Quality through the (vertical) associations.
  • Define implementation phase boundaries (Enterprise Architecture planning).
  • Use Enterprise Architecture in the day-to-day management and operation of the Enterprise.

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• October 25-29, 2010 - 14th International EDOC Conference - The Enterprise Computing Conference

  The IEEE EDOC Conference is the key annual event in enterprise computing. EDOC conferences address the full range of engineering technologies and methods contributing to intra- and inter-enterprise distributed application systems. EDOC 2010 will be the fourteenth event in the series of conferences. Since 1997, EDOC has brought together leading computer science researchers, IT decision makers, IT architects, solution designers and practitioners to discuss enterprise computing challenges, models and solutions from the perspectives of academia, industry and government.

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• November 3-5, 2010 - Data Management, Information Quality and Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Conference Europe 2010 -  London, UK

  This 12^th Annual Conference will consist of 3 co-located conferences on Information Quality, Data Management, and  Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence. 

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• November 23-24, 2010 - The Corporate Strategy for IT - Chris Potts, London, UK

  This seminar and workshop provides a framework for deeply integrating IT with corporate and business strategies, and explores its impact on the organization's people, investments, operating costs, Enterprise Architecture, and sourcing decisions.  It harnesses the energy of business-led strategies for exploiting IT, to create maximum total value. It also makes transparent the linkages between business decisions and IT costs – often with some very surprising results.

  Delegates will learn:

  • From the experiences of other companies
  • Rapidly formulate the Corporate Strategy for IT in collaboration with business leaders
  •  Integrate IT with corporate and business strategies, and keep it that way
  • Transform IT costs and budgets into a portfolio of investments in business change
  • Maximize the contribution and influence of IT expertise at all stages of the investment process

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• December 1-3, 2010 - Business Process Modelling, Analysis and Design - Kathy Long, London, UK

  This workshop specifically addresses the tactical aspects of process improvement project work.   It is unique in that it is built around a case study developed by the participants in team workshops. Consequently, participants leave with real world knowledge that can be used for accelerating their own projects.

    Delegates will learn:

  • The importance of properly managing the "people" aspect of process redesign
  • Critical Success Factors for process improvement
  • Practical process modeling and analysis and design techniques
  • How to avoid creeping project scope and analysis paralysis
  • The recommended tools currently available
  • Tips and Techniques for avoiding common pitfalls in process improvement projects

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