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ebizQ is organizing a roundtable discussion webinar that will focus on MDM’s Role as a Critical Enabler for SOA

The event will be held next week, July 16, 2008 at 12:00 pm US Eastern.

What you will learn:
- The types of practices and tools required to provide a unified and consistent view of business entities common to the organization
- Best practices for implementing processes and tools
- How MDM can benefit other enterprise initiatives

DM Review, BI Review and The MDM Institute, the leading analyst authority for research and consulting in the areas of MDM, CDI, announced the MDM Summit – Fall 2008, which will take be held on October 19 - 21 at the Hilton New York.

MDM Summit – Fall 2008 is for IT professionals at any level. Newly formatted to better suit your business needs, this event will host both thought-leading speakers and attendees you want to hear from. Learn the best practice evaluation and implementation strategies from early adopters of customer data integration (CDI) and master data management (MDM) solutions. You’ll also network with fellow CDI and MDM technologists project leads that will share their success secrets.

Too bad there’s no agenda yet, but I’m sure it’ll be there soon. Keep in mind, early registration is available until august. =)

Renat Khasanshyn, the founder and CEO of Apatar, will speak on the future of enterprise data mashups at Dr. Dobb’s Architecture & Design World 2008 conference, the independent event dedicated to software architecture, design, modeling, and UML. The event will be held on July 21-24, 2008 at the Hyatt McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, and include 75 focused sessions on real-world topics, visionary keynotes, in-depth training, and networking with peers, industry leaders, and world-class speakers.

In his presentation, Renat Khasanshyn, the founder of the Apatar Open Source Data Integration project, will explore how enterprise architects, developers, and business users can leverage existing mashup technologies to build and deploy data mashups. The session will focus on tips and best practices and also highlight the major challenges preventing mashup design tools from being implemented across the enterprise sector. Finally, Mr. Khasanshyn will walk the audience through the process of building “Cold Call Assistant for Salesforce.com,” the mashup that won the 2007 IBM Business Mashup Challenge.

Session information: what, where, when
“Enterprise 2.0 and Data Mashups: Bridging the Information Gap”
Renat Khasanshyn, founder and CEO of Apatar, Inc.
July 24, 2008, 1:30–3:00 p.m.
Track: Service-Oriented Architecture
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, 2233 S. Martin L. King Drive, Chicago, IL
Audience Level: Intermediate

https://www.cmpevents.com/SDUM8/a.asp?option=G&V=3&id=575532

Visit http://drdobbsarchworld.com/ to learn more about the conference.

Apatar CEO Renat Khasanshyn is currently attending Interop-Software 2008 data integration conference in Las Vegas, NV. Hope you get a chance to meet him in person, if you happen to be there at the same time. If not, you can always check out Renat’s impressions of the conference in his blog.

And if you didn’t get to visit this Interop, you are just in time to register for the next one in Tokyo, Japan on 9-13 of June this year.

The conference will take place on May 13-15, 2008 in Las Vegas

A new Data Service World conference will launch on June 24 in New York City, Roosevelt Hotel. Looks like a n event not to miss! The Conference Chair Ken North says:

DataServices World is about the confluence of databases, data warehousing, business intelligence, enterprise computing and Internet computing. Its focus is architectures and technologies for accessing data from heterogenous data sources and providing that data to consumers such as components, services and applications.

At DataServices World, we’ll uncover architecture and technology solutions for accessing, integrating and processing data from multiple sources while guaranteeing security and scalability. These solutions include robust, high-performance data access middleware, optimized databases, efficient protocol handling, tuned queries and state of the art data services. We’ll be looking at technology of interest to CTOs, enterprise architects, system architects, information architects, developers, database gurus, consultants and analysts.

And another thing to note: the conference will be co-located with another event you shouldn’t miss - SOA World 2008 East =)

“Widespread confusion was created during the 1950s and 1960s when each U.S. locality could start and end Daylight Saving Time as it desired. One year, 23 different pairs of DST start and end dates were used in Iowa alone. For exactly five weeks each year, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia were not on the same time as Washington D.C., Cleveland, or Baltimore–but Chicago was. And, on one Ohio to West Virginia bus route, passengers had to change their watches seven times in 35 miles! The situation led to millions of dollars in costs to several industries, especially those involving transportation and communications. Extra railroad timetables alone cost the today’s equivalent of over $12 million per year.” (From here.)

Yes, DST is a problem, and yes it’s gonna become only more so over the years. We live in a world totally different from the one our parents lived in. We live in an extraordinarily connected world, where the slightest time inconsistence may lead to irrecoverable errors and losses. That’s why speculations arise as to whether DST really is as important and ncessary of a thing, as is portrayed? Let’s see. With DST:

1. SaaS vendors have problems with updating time if they run applications on multiple servers. I.e., there’re problems with Google Calendar.

2. We face problems with synchronizing data and scheduling. The trouble lies in synchronizing and avoiding all the mismatches that might occur as a result of different countries switching to DST at different times and timezones changing “on the run”.

3. Time changes disrupt sleep patterns, cause harm to the health, and so on. According to health researches, DTS increase death rates, suicide commitments, heartaches, etc.

4. DST wastes more energy resources rather than saves any, according to various studies.

Clock shifts and DST rule changes have a direct economic cost, since they entail extra work to support remote meetings, computer applications and the like. For example, a 2007 North American rule change cost an estimated $500 million to $1 billion.

5. We miss meetings and appointments

6. Have problems interpreting and meeting deadlines
7. Struggle to tackle security-related issues and correlating log files

8. International business systems that function across multiple time zones face confusion

9. And so on and so forth.

Globalization made us as interdependent as ever and our world as web-connected as never (and you can only wonder how much closer it will get) and if the problems over DST might have been insignificant a decade or so back, they are far from being so today. Today DST makes businesses stumble, business intelligence fail and lead to the loss of our most precious resources - time and data… The question is why are things like that still allowed to happen?

Western Michigan University I.T. Forum to take place on March 28 forum at WMU’s Fetzer Center in Kalamazoo.

The forum will focus on the latest trends in Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Software as a Service, SaaS and the hosted systems is offers, and mashups, unifying internal and external data sources.

“Every business is using technology in some way,” Thomas Rienzo (who heads this year’s Western Michigan University I.T. Forum) said. “Every job is a tech job in some way. The question is, how do you do it? We’re hoping to provide some insight.”

David King, software architect for IBM, will propose how properly done service-oriented architecture can deliver more, deliver it faster and do it for less.

Ross Emerton, director of Fusion Solution Architecture of Oracle Consulting, will explain mashups.

Adam Caplan, president of Model Metrics, the largest Salesforce.com partner in metropolitan Chicago, will talk about the role of Software as a Service and its impact on business.

SaaS involves hosted systems - that is, the servers that power it live somewhere other than at the business for which they work. Having the hardware and the data offsite alleviates many of the maintenance headaches, but it also demands high trust, Rienzo noted.

You can register in advance at www.cis.hcob.wmich.edu/itforum, or by phone at 269-387-5410. Registration also will be taken at the door, beginning at 8 a.m.