Aligning Business and IT With Metadata

300 Pages·2007·1.54 MB·English

by  Hans Wegener

Aligning Business
and IT with Metadata

Aligning Business
and IT with Metadata
The Financial Services Way
Hans Wegener
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Contents
Foreword xi
Preface xv
Acknowledgements xvii
1. Introduction 1
1.1. Whythisbook? 1
1.2. Change,risk,andcompliance 4
1.3. Objectives 8
1.4. Scope 11
1.5. Whoshouldreadthisbook? 13
1.6. Contentsandorganization 15
Part I: ChangingtheWay You Change 21
2. TheRole of Metadata in Supporting Change 23
2.1. Overview 23
2.2. Managingchangeadoption:whenchangeimpactbeginstobite 24
2.3. Theessenceofmetadata:reificationofdata 29
2.4. Theessenceofmetadatamanagement:couplingprocessesfor
systematicchange 37
2.5. Whatis‘meta’?Whatisn’t? 47
3. AligningBusinessand IT: the Roleof Metadata, Strategy, and Architecture 49
3.1. Overview 49
3.2. Change,alignment,models,andmetadata 50
3.3. Architecture:structure,compliance,andthemanagementofportfolios 60
3.4. Supportingevolutiontowardsandadoptionofstandards 62
3.5. AligningbusinessandIT:usingaglobaldatalanguage 65