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Experts Wanted

Presented by Ken Orr, Founder and Chief Scientist, The Ken Orr Institute 

Course Description:

The course outlined is a 1 day course developed expressly for Business Architects to help them analyze their (current (as-is) and future (to-be) business architecture (including: business value chains, stakeholders, value streams and business processes) and data architecture (overall semantic data architecture, individual data architecture components.

Course Outline:
– Business Architecture

• What is Business Architecture

– Where does Business Architecture fit?

• What is Information (Data) Architecture?
  – An Enterprise View of Data (Information)
  – A Distinction between Operational and Informational Databases/Systems
  – An Data (Information) Architecture Based on Business Architecture
  – A Mechanism (Approach) for Implementation Business and Technology Strategies
• Operational and Informational Databases
  – Operational Database Strategies
  – Informational Database Strategies
• Ways of Organizing Data
  – Entity-Relationship Modeling
  – Object-Class Modeling
  – Dimensional Modeling
  – Semantic Modeling
  – Data Structure (View) Modeling
• Information Architecture Framework
  – Business Value + Data Classes
  – Understanding Information Architecture
  – Data Warehousing
  – Enterprise Information Architecture
  – Advanced Design Issues
• Future Directions in Information Architecture

Instructor Biography:
Ken Orr is a Principal Researcher with the Ken Orr Institute, a business technology research organization. He currently serves as a Cutter Consortium Businesses/IT Trends Council Fellow. Mr. Orr is the Co-chairman of the Brainstorm Business Architecture Conferences and a keynote speaker on Business process. Previously, he was an Affiliate Professor and Director of the Center for the Innovative Application of Technology with the School of Technology and Information Management at Washington University. He is an internationally recognized expert on business process management, technology transfer, enterprise architecture, software engineering, information architecture, and data warehousing. Mr. Orr is the author of three books and hundreds of articles. Mr. Orr is currently directing research on a new technology called eXecutable Business Processes (eXecutable business process).

Target Audience/Who Should Attend:

• Business Analysts
• Business Process Analysts
• Business Managers
• CPOs
• CIOs
• CTOs
• Systems Managers
• Systems Analysts
• Database Designers
• DBAs