MDUG Seminar

Date: April 17, 2008

Hotel: The Crowne Plaza (Novi)

Seminar Program

Presentation Abstracts

This session will be a review of trends and directions in the industry. While it's obvious that most warehouses are growing, where is it going to stop? What are the pressures on the infrastructure and delivery teams? What is working for business today? As part of this tour, you'll learn where "the rocks in the river" are located.

This session will introduce Master Data Management (MDM). MDM will be defined in terms of what it is and what it isn't, including comparing MDM to data warehousing. The session will compare the most common implementation methodologies and the different styles of MDM. Job roles, skills needed, and technologies to implement MDM will be included in the presentation.

DB2 9 for z/OS continues to extend on DB2’s leadership in the areas of availability, scalability, and performance; while delivering several complimentary, extensible features. DB2 9 for z/OS introduces new design choices to meet your enterprise application and governance needs. This presentation is an excerpt from the DB2 9 for z/OS Migration Planning Workshop and will focus on migration planning. Topics covered in the presentation include: packaging, prerequisites and migration processes. Attendees will also receive an abbreviated checklist covering: prerequisites, feature considerations and migration considerations.

IBM DB2 Data Warehouse Edition (DWE) is a flexible warehousing architecture that provides a powerful foundation to support current and future business needs related to managing and using information. This presentation is an overview of the integrated components of DWE with emphasis on the new and improved features of version 9.5.

Implementing a data warehouse requires many design decisions with respect to hardware and software configuration. This session will review IBM's Balanced Warehouse approach and portfolio on AIX, Linux, and Windows. In addition, this session will provide a peek at a new module that IBM is working on to more prescriptively define the ETL process.

IBM DB2 Data Warehouse Edition (DWE) is a flexible warehousing architecture that provides a powerful foundation to support current and future business needs related to managing and using information. This presentation is an overview of the integrated components of DWE with emphasis on the new and improved features of version 9.5.

Speaker Biographies

Lee Goddard is the Mid-West Team Lead for IBM's Business Intelligence Best Practice Team and has led hundreds of DB2 implementations in the last dozen years, including "60+TB"-class data warehouses. He has presented Leadership and Technical topics in several countries, both internal IBM and in external forums. Lee has authored many white papers, workshops, and planning session methodologies, including the precepts for each chapter for a possible book called the "17 Laws of Building Terabyte Class DB Systems". Lee has been with IBM over 26 years and is certified in HW, SW, and Consulting.

Mike McCarthy leads a Master Data Management training services team for IBM. His team trains strategic System Integration business partners on IBM's Websphere Customer Center and MDM Server products. Mike has worked with IBM database, information management, and application development products for 18 years and has worked for IBM in the IT industry for over 28 years. He also serves as a member of MDUG board of directors.

Paul Wirth is a Senior Data Management Technical Sales Specialist with IBM Corporation located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Paul has been involved in database administration and storage management for the past twenty years. Over the years Paul has worked in database administration with IMS, DB2 and Oracle. Paul has also worked extensively with enterprise storage subsystems for both Open Systems and zOS.

John Sheppard is a Senior IT Specialist with IBM Information Management, located in the Detroit area. John has 20 plus year of IT experience and is a member of IBM's BI Best Practice Team. He also serves as a member of MDUG board of directors.