subject: Itxpertpanel To Organize Webinar On business Glossary design And Technology [print this page] Description: Description:
This webinar is about the importance and nature of a Business Glossary for enterprise.
Organizations of all sizes are challenged in the communications that occur within the organization. One of the most common reasons for bad implementation of enterprise level data management is the lack of clarity of the terminology. The solution to this problem is in coming up with a business glossary that clearly and unambiguously defines each business entity.
A business glossary can connect workers across the enterprise to critical business information they can trust, helping to eliminate the misunderstandings that cause lost time, lost opportunities and lost revenue. It can be described as a data management application containing business terms and definitions and used by business people to get their jobs done.
Perhaps nothing drives home the importance of a business glossary more than these revealing figures arrived at in a study conducted with more than 1,000 middle managers:
oMiddle managers spend more than 25 percent of their time searching for information necessary to do their jobs
oMore than 50 percent of the information they obtain has no value to their original search request
o42 percent of respondents said they accidentally use the wrong information at least once a week
o53 percent said that less than half of the information they receive is Valuable
o59 percent said that as a consequence of poor information distribution, they miss internal company information that might be valuable to their job
o36 percent said there is so much information available that it takes a long time to actually find the right piece of data
This webinar will help participants with ways of creating a business glossary. Participants will have learnt the following at the end of this session:
oWhat are the business and IT challenges that a business glossary can help solve
oHow to position the benefits of a business glossary to get the effort budgeted
oMethods for establishing the Governance, standards and best processes
oMethods for determining how to create business term names and good definitions
oWhat the Glossary Logical Data Model could look like
oResolving design issues such as how to query the glossary and who should have access, what is the life-cycle of a Business Term
oTechniques for defining the Glossary taxonomy and leveraging your firms taxonomy
Lowell Fryman is recognized as a thought leader in business metadata/glossaries, enterprise application integration, DW/BI applications, and Data Governance. He has hands-on experience with over 80 business intelligence implementations. He has also been recognized by W. H. (Bill) Inmon, and is a contributor to six of his books. Mr. Fryman is a co-author of the book Business Metadata: Capturing Enterprise Knowledge. Lowell is a Data Architect in the Healthcare Practice of Edgewater Technology Inc.
Lowell has achieved a number of certifications including Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP) for ICCP/TDWI and has an MSIT degree. Lowell is a past Adjunct Instructor for the Masters in Business Intelligence, Daniels College of Business, Denver University. He is the past President of DAMA-International Rocky Mountain Chapter (RMC) and an active speaker at international conferences.
Lowell has developed technology best practice courses and trained thousands of professionals in data warehousing, metadata, data quality and enterprise application development. Recently, he has led teams in the implementation of enterprise Metadata/Governance repositories, business intelligence applications, and business intelligence Centers of Excellence for major international corporations.
