Meetings

2010

September, 2010 (Boston/Wellesley, MA): John O Biderman of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care presents "Wikify Your Metadata! Integrating Business Semantics, Metadata Discovery, and Knowledge Management"
June 23, 2010 (Hartford, CT): David Lawrence of MVF Associates, Inc presents "Up in the Cloud: Service-Oriented Architectures and the Future of Computing - A Data-Centric Approach"
June 22, 2010 (Boston/Wellesley, MA): David Lawrence of MVF Associates, Inc presents "Up in the Cloud: Service-Oriented Architectures and the Future of Computing - A Data-Centric Approach"
May 21, 2010 (Boston/Weston, MA): Robert J. Abate presents "The Convergence of SOA and Business Intelligence (BI)"
May 20, 2010 (Hartford, CT): Robert J. Abate presents "The Convergence of SOA and Business Intelligence (BI)"
March 18, 2010 (Boston/Cambridge, MA): Jim Starkey presents "Special Relativity and the Problem of Database Scalability"
February 18, 2010 (Boston/Cambridge, MA): Eirik Bakke presents "A Common Class of Business-Oriented Database Applications, or How I Hope to Achieve what Microsoft Access Didn't"

December 10, 2009 (Boston/Cambridge, MA): Michael Stonebraker presents "Task-Specific Search"
November 30, 2009 (Boston/Wellesley, MA): John Biderman presents "Master Metadata Management Using an ELDM"
September 24, 2009 (Boston/Waltham, MA): Peter Aiken presents "Data Quality & SOA What are the requirements?"
June 5, 2009 (Boston/Weston, MA): Susan Burk presents "A Case of Usage: Working with Use Cases on Data-Centric Projects"
April 30, 2009 (Hartford/Rocky Hill, CT): Susan Burk presents "A Case of Usage: Working with Use Cases on Data-Centric Projects"
March 26, 2009 (Hartford/Rocky Hill, CT): Barbara Nichols presents "Data Architecture in Successful Information Systems Deployments"
January 9, 2009 (Boston): Pramod Sadalage and Martin Fowler present "Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design"

November 20, 2008 (Hartford/Rocky Hill, CT): David Lawrence presents "From Here to There: How to Design an Transactional Database Which Provides Optimum Reporting Capabilities"
November 13, 2008 (Boston): David Lawrence presents "From Here to There: How to Design an Transactional Database Which Provides Optimum Reporting Capabilities"
October 24, 2008 (Boston): Michael Scofield presents "Linking Geospatial Data to Business Intelligence"
October 23, 2008 (Hartford, CT): Michael Scofield presents "Fundamentals of Data Quality Assessment"
July 2008: Karen Lopez presents "Enterprise Data Management: Seven Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make!"

November 2007: Michael Schwartz and Jeff Averick present "Reporting Data Quality Errors Back to Data Owners"
October 2007: Shiraz Kassam presents "Data Quality 101"
October 2007: Project Summit/Business Analyst World, co-sponsored by DAMA Greater Boston Chapter
May 2007: Mike Stonebreaker presents "One Size Fits All: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone"
April 2007: Roger Lepinsky presents "Cartesian Products: More Common than You Think!"
March 2007: Michael Scofield presents "Managing the Data Exchange Relationship"

November 2006: David Eddy presents "MetaData repositories: Lessons Learned from the Past"
October 2006: Barbara A. Nichols presents "Connections: Meta Data Driven Taxonomy Development"
September 2006: Terry Moriarty presents "The Business Behavior Triad™: Business Process, Rules and Knowledge"
June 2006: Steve Hoberman presents "The Data Modeling Scorecard"
May 2006: Rick Sherman presents "Ten Principles for Increasing the Business Value of your Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Investments"
March 2006: Data Warehouse Architectures in the Internet Age

November 2005: Emerging Directions for Enterprise Content Management
September 2005: An Enterprise Model: Where, oh where does my meta-data fit in? David Hay's presentation is available for download here.
April 2005: Questing for the Grail: the post-mortem of a federated metadata management project.
February 2005: Instituting the meta data Lifecycle

November 2003: Creating a Corporate Data Architecture - Leveraging the Power of Structure
October 2003: Establishing Information as a Corporate Asset Using a Data Integration Framework
June 2003: Five Steps To Metadata Sanity - Building the Enterprise Metadata Repository
May 2003: What wrong with this Data Management Picture?
April 2003: Your Model or Your XML: How You Can Have Them Both!
March 2003: Cross Functional Self-Serve Analytics for Real Business Users
February 2003: ROI for Your Modeling Dollar - Software Components from Metadata

November 2002: Improve Your Modeling Environment - Make Your Life Easier
October 2002: New Directions for Business Intelligence: Critical Lessons from the First Decade of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing

November 2001: Data Warehousing Using a Portal Approach - How do you Manage and Access all that Data?
August 2001: A Practical Approach to Scalable XML Architecture - A Case Study
May 2001: C-A-P-E: An Architecture for Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
April 2001: Clickstream Data Warehousing - Sink or Swim?

November 2000: Knowledge-Enabling Business Intelligence and Analytic Applications
October 2000: What is a Portal, Really?
September 2000: Implementing a Successful Information Architecture
June 2000: Business Rules: The Common Factor
March 2000: More Data, In More Detail, More Quickly
February 2000: A Platform for e-Business Analytical Applications
January 2000: Data Modeling - Testing the Foundations

November 1999: Evolution of E-Businesses in the Connected Community: - Emerging Paradigms
October 1999: Database Modeling for Object Oriented Applications
August 1999: The Impact of Design Decisions in DSS - Star vs. Normal Form
July 1999: Campaign Management & Data Mining
June 1999: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
May 1999: The Practical Use of Technologies
April 1999: An Ontology for Maintaining Data Definitions and Information Quality