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Taxonomies and Data Models: A Trip Through Parallel Universes

Tuesday, 3 May 2011
08:15 AM – 09:15 AM

This event is available now. It will be available through 5/7/2012 (54 sessions viewable).

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Speaker: Jamie Popkin
Location: Olympic Ballroom
Session Type: Registration is Required

How similar/dissimilar are taxonomies and data models? Historically each has been created and maintained by siloed organizations for siloed application-specific purposes. There is a growing demand from users to share data in new ways that require IT to break down the structured/unstructured data silos. For too long enterprises have been running their businesses on the information they can get and not the information they want to use. For a variety of reasons structured and unstructured data have been treated separately. Given technological advances and overall high levels of data and document digitization the obvious question is why should structured and unstructured data operate in parallel universes? The barriers between the parallel universes are strong, well-defended and have existed up until now without fatal results. Increasingly the failure to break down the barriers can lead to degraded competitive positioning, costly compliance violations and a loss of operational agility.