Friday, July 18, 2003 4:00 PM Pacific Time
Press Release Source: Data Advantage Group & PHD Brasil

Innovative Workshop for IT & Business Professionals Addressing the Need for Metadata Management

A great opportunity for technical professionals to improve their knowledge on metadata solutions design and implementation; and for business area specialists to evaluate new strategies for managing their knowledge domains.

July 18, 2003 - San Francisco, CA & Sao Paulo, Brazil: Data Advantage Group, a leading provider of meta data management software and PHD Brasil, LTD, a leading technology services firm will promote a workshop, "Metadata Solutions: Project and Implementation". This unique seminar in the Brazilian market will address best practices in the implementation of metadata solutions. The instructor and coordinator will be Gefferson de Medeiros, PHD's consultant and Data Warehouse Professional Services Director. During this seminar, Gefferson will explore the metadata value chain, the association between metadata and data, information and knowledge; illustrated through a variety of interactive training examples. The target audience includes data warehouse administrators, data stewards, business specialists, project and repository managers, and all professionals that work directly on the administration or development of data warehouse framework components.

About the Seminar
This course aims at presenting aspects of the problem before discussing the solution. Learning begins with revisiting mistaken, conflicting and disperse foundations and continues by examining the solid principles of technical metadata and, most important, business metadata. It promotes an introduction into the world of pragmatic, architected, integrated and evolving metadata solutions, which leverage the building of architectural components and make possible the use of complex informational environments by business communities.

During the seminar attendees will learn to design a comprehensive metadata solution architecture, aimed at supporting on-demand information analysis needs shared by the different knowledge worker communities, and map the problem to the solution. Attendees will also have the opportunity to extend a virtual repository (MetaCenter) from Data Advantage Group; e.g. to support business metadata mapping without recourse to specific schemas or additional coding. PHD Brasil's workshop will further look into the problems and possibilities of different architectures (network/distributed, centralized and hybrid). This includes: the traditional, centralized metadata architectural approach, its manifest drawbacks and under which circumstances this approach can be temporarily used; the advantages of a network/distributed architecture; and the pragmatic adoption of a hybrid metadata architecture (all of which are supported by MetaCenter).

Location:
Hotel Transamérica
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
October 13th - 17th, 2003

About PHD Brasil, LTD
A PHD Brasil reúne algumas das maiores autoridades em Large-Scale Data Management - manipulação e ordenação de grandes volumes de dados com alta performance, em ambientes Unix, NT e mainframe.

Por isso fizemos deste site um centro de referência de Data Warehousing e CRM. Aqui você conhece nossos produtos e serviços, conhece o talento da casa e encontra, ainda quentes, as notícias mais importantes sobre data warehousing, CRM e, em particular, sobre manipulação e tratamento de dados.

Publicamos regularmente artigos e estudos de alguns dos maiores especialistas no assunto em todo o mundo. E, no Centro de Inteligência, temos um Fórum reservado às pessoas que lidam a sério com dados, seja na área administrativa, seja nas áreas técnicas.

About Data Advantage Group
Data Advantage Group is a leading provider of information resource management software. Data Advantage Group's MetaCenter™ Platform is a browser-based meta data analytics platform and integrated corporate information asset repository that empowers both business and technical users to collaborate and easily research, locate, and manage enterprise meta data assets. Data Advantage Group's clients include: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Boeing, Cable & Wireless, Fidelity Invesents, General Electric, Marsh Companies, Pacific Life & Annuity, Palm Inc. and VW Credit. Visit www.dag.com for more information.

Note: MetaCenter is a trademark of Data Advantage Group, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact:
Data Advantage Group, Inc.
+1 (415) 947-0400
info@dag.com

PHD Brasil
Gefferson de Medeiros
+55 11 3744 1600
phdbrasil@phdbrasil.com.br

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