Abstract:

YES, YOU CAN CREATE AN ARCHITECTURAL DATA MODEL IN UML

Traditionally, the object-oriented community and the data modeling and design community have found it difficult to understand each other. The premises are completely different. The entity/relationship model, which is the "data" people’s tool of choice, is not readily supported by UML, the object-oriented community’s tool of choice.
 
As a data modeler, your author has been one of UML’s strongest critics in the past. However, in the spirit of Richard Nixon, a fervent anti-communist, being the only one who could open a diplomatic door to communist China, this presentation is an attempt to make peace between the two groups.
 
Yes, it is possible to create a serviceable entity/relationship model with the UML notation. Because UML was designed to support object-oriented design, and entity/relationship modeling is intended to produce models of the business for review by non-technical business people, some tinkering with the notation and a lot of tinkering with "best practices" are required to pull this off.
 
This presentation will describe what is required to do it. It will describe how to constrain both the assignment and the parts of UML to use, in order to make it all work. Along with that, it will present important aspects of business modeling that even many data modelers neglect - at their cost.
 
The presentation will include examples from Dave’s new book, Enterprise Model Patterns: Describing the World.
 
Ultimately, the goal is to present an approach to modeling that will produce outstanding models, regardless of the notation chosen.
 
Time permitting, sample models from Enterprise Model Patterns: Describing the World will also be shown to demonstrate the approach.

Speaker Bios for:

David C. Hay
Essential Strategies, Inc.

In the Information Technology Industry since it was called "Data Processing", Dave Hay has been producing data models to support strategic and requirements planning for more than twenty-five years. He has worked in a variety of industries, including, among others, banking, clinical pharmaceutical research, and all aspects of oil production and processing.
 
For 19 years he has been President of Essential Strategies, Inc., a consulting firm dedicated to helping clients define corporate information architecture, identify requirements, and plan strategies for the implementation of new systems.
 
Dave is the author of the original data model patterns book, Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought, as well as books on requirements analysis and metadata after that.
 
Early last year, he published the book Enterprise Model Patterns: Describing the World, a comprehensive set of patterns addressing enterprise models from several levels of abstraction. Since he took the unusual step of producing model patterns in UML, a follow-on book, UML and Data Modeling: A Vademecum for Modern Times should be published shortly.
 
He has spoken at numerous international and local DAMA, user group, and other conferences.
 
He can be reached at dch@essentialstrategies.com, (713) 464-8316, or via his company's web site at www.essentialstrategies.com

Directions to: Chubb Insurance
15 Mountain View Road
Warren, NJ 07059

Open a printer friendly pdf file, of directions to Chubb Insurance.

FROM NORTH:
NJ Turnpike South to Exit 14 onto I-78 West.
I-78 West to Exit 33 - Make a left at light at top of ramp.
Stay in left lane.
At second traffic light make a left onto Mountain View Road.
See on site directions below.
 
FROM SOUTH:
NJ Turnpike North to Exit 10 onto I-287 North.
Take I-287 North to I-78 East (toward Newark).
Take I-78 East to Exit 33 (first exit once on I-78).
Ramp exit is 4 lanes, use second lane from right.
Make right turn at light at top of ramp into the left lane.
At next light (only a few hundred feet after turn), make a left onto Mountain View Road.
See on site directions below.
 
FROM THE WEST:
Take I-78 East to Exit 33.
Ramp exit is 4 lanes, use second lane from right.
Make right turn at light at top of ramp into the left lane.
At next light (only a few hundred feet after turn), make a left onto Mountain View Road.
See on site directions below.
 
FROM THE EAST:
Take I-78 West to Exit 33.
Stay to the left on the exit ramp.
Make left turn at light at top of ramp into the left lane.
At second light (only a few hundred feet after turn), make a left onto Mountain View Road.
See on site directions below.
 
ON SITE DIRECTIONS:
Once on Mountain View Road go straight and you will drive into Chubb & Son. Once you see the guardhouse move over to the left of the Guardhouse.
Obtain parking card.
Proceed around to Parking Lot F or G.
Once you've parked you will see a small building (Engineering), go to the right of it, and follow walkway to the back of the large building. The meeting will be held in the Classroom area, to the left, just inside the rear doors.

Upcoming Events:
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DAMA New Jersey 2012 Events

May 2012

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2012 Enterprise Data World Conference
Atlanta, GA
April 29-May 3, 2012
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DGIQ: Data Goverance and Information Quality Conference
San Diego, CA
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June 25-28, 2012,

2012 DataVersity Webinars

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NYEMUG (NY ERwin Modeling User Group) for further info please email carol.lehn@pepsi.com"
 
SEEMUG (South East Enterprise Modeling User Group)for further info please email dan.dechichio@raymondjames.com
 
MDM University offers webinars related to MDM and data quality.
 
Meta-Data Professional Organization (MPO) offers webinars and teleconferences on metadata and related topics.

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