This presentation discusses Data Profiling and Database Archiving from the point of view of lost opportunities.   Both of these technologies are available to data management professionals to push their management of important data up a notch.   They both promise significant cost savings, high ROI, improved operational performance, and better compliance with goals of data governance.   

 

Each technology is defined. The opportunities where they can bring big rewards are outlined and the basics of business cases for them are presented.    In spite of the opportunities, both technologies are very much under-utilized in IT shops.   Some of the reasons for this are presented along with an invitation to the audience to add comments about their successes or failure to get traction on them.

 

 Intended Audience:

Data / Information Resource Managers

Data Architects

Data Warehouse Architects

Database Administrators (DBA)

Data Modelers

 

Jack Olson has worked in the commercial software development business for 40 years. His career has mostly consisted of creating solutions to IT problems in the area of database systems and tools.    He spent 17 years in IBM R&D labs working on such notable products as CICS, IMS, DB2, and AIX.   He worked at BMC software as Corporate Architect, as Vice President of Development at Peregrine Systems, and as Chief Technology Officer for Evoke Software and NEON Enterprise Software.   He has worked with several other startup companies in recent years as a consultant, advisor, or board member.    He is currently the founder and CEO of SvalTech, Inc., a new startup company that provides education, consulting, and implementation services for database archiving.   Jack has published two books: “Data Quality: the Accuracy Dimension”, 2003 and “Database Archiving: How to Keep Lots of Data for a Very Long Time”, 2008.   Jack has a BS degree in Mathematics from the Illinois Institute of Technology and an MBA from Northwestern University.