metadata at the crossroads…

Copyright®2011 Allen Systems Group, Inc.www.asg.com

Metadata At The Crossroads…Metadata At The Crossroads…

September 15, 2011September 15, 2011

A Relentless Pursuit Of Implementations And Applications Of Metadata-Enabled Management To Maximize The Value Of Investment In Information technology …

Ian Rowlands, Senior Director of Strategy, ASG


Agenda


Some History

1974 (approximately) : MSP Datamanager

1986 R&O Rochade

2001 Soamai becubic

2009 ASG-metaGlossary

2011 ASG-METAMDM

BrownstoneBrownstone

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The Crossroads

Metadata management as a capability to optimize essential IT functions

Metadata management as a capability to enable real-time IT

Metadata management as a capability to optimize essential BUSINESS functions


Where We Stand

ASG-Rochade ASG-Rochade Enterprise RepositoryEnterprise Repository

ASG-Manager ASG-Manager ProductsProducts

Mainframe RepositoryMainframe Repository

ASG-metaGlossaryASG-metaGlossaryBusiness GlossaryBusiness Glossary

ASG-becubic ASG-becubic Applications Applications

RepositoryRepository

ASG-metaCMDBASG-metaCMDBInfrastructure Infrastructure

RepositoryRepository

ASG deploys a valuable and increasingly interconnected set of metadata solutions – but it’s not enough!


How The World Is Changing


Megatrends: The Metadata Explosion

Syntactic (Structural) Richness

Semantic (M

eaning) Richness

"Much of the work of finding, interpreting and connecting relevant pieces of information, negotiating meanings and eliciting knowledge in conversations with others, creating new ideas and using them to come up with a final product, happens in the head of a knowledge worker or as part of communication or doing work."

(Efimova 2004)


Risk of information misuse•Misinterpreted information•Bad decisions•Using the wrong information•Using the right information incorrectly•Using information that is

out of date

Risk of corporate exposure•Governance and compliance•Data theft•Criminal and corporate liability•Loss of intellectual property• Legal repercussions

Risk of business inertia•Inability to find information in a timely manner•Inability to combine information•Failure to collaborate

Risk of excessive cost•Loss of IT investment •Significant training/retraining•Recreating existing work product•Assistance required to find information

How can information risks

be mitigated?

Increasing IT Driven Business Risk


The Demand For A Changing IT Cost Model


The Demand For A Changing IT Cost Model

As a business resource, information technology today looks a lot like electric power did at the start of the last century [when manufacturers built and maintained their own generators]. Companies go to vendors to purchase various components — computers, storage drives, network switches and all sorts of software — and cobble them together into complex information-processing plants, or data centers, that they house within their own walls. They hire specialists to maintain the plants, and they often bring in outside consultants to solve particularly thorny problems. Their executives are routinely sidetracked from their real business — manufacturing automobiles, for instance, and selling them at a profit — by the need to keep their company’s private IT infrastructure running smoothly.

Nicholas G. Carr, The End of Corporate Computing, MIT Sloan Management Review, Spring 2005


The Transitioning Enterprise IT Environment

MainframeMainframeDistributedDistributedVirtualizedVirtualizedPrivate Private CloudCloud

Public Public CloudCloud


How Does This Affect Metadata Management?


Industrialized Metadata Management Applications

Dependent Dependent on “Craft on “Craft

Work”Work”

““Master Master Class”Class”

Skills shift Skills shift to USAGE to USAGE

not creationnot creation


Example metaApp Roadmap for Server Provisioning

Phas

e 1

Phas

e 2

Phas

e 3

Phas

e 4


The Broadened Scope Of Metadata Management

Off Premise Off Premise CloudCloud

On-Premise On-Premise ComputingComputing

On-On-Premise Premise

CloudCloud

The logical enterprise server

The dispersed workforce


The Broadened Scope Of Metadata Management

Managed Managed EnvironmentEnvironment

Managing Managing EnvironmentEnvironment

ConsumingConsumingEnvironmentEnvironment

Where does the metadata reside?


Model / metamodel relationships: Current State


The Metadata Landscape

Semantic RepositorySemantic Repository

Business RulesBusiness Rules Governance Governance InformationInformation

Business ProcessesBusiness Processes

Enterprise Enterprise RepositoryRepository

Application Application RepositoryRepository

Web Services Web Services RegistriesRegistries

Data models and Data models and definitionsdefinitions

InfrastructureInfrastructure(metaCMDB)(metaCMDB)


A Simple Proposal

Application ModelsWhich inherit from:

The Enterprise ModelWhich consolidates:

Subject ModelsWhich reconcile / rationalize:

Technology-specific Models

ARIS Oracle DB2 Java PL/IProvision

Terminology Organization Processes RDBMS’s Applications

All of the items types and all of the potential relationships implied by all of the subject models would be enormous! In practice, each enterprise uses its own unique combination to form the enterprise model


Refining The Subject Model

Terminology

Content Process Data

ServicesApplications

Terminology – describing business concepts is, in a sense, the “master” and bridges the other “subjects”


The User Interface Challenge

Business Users don’t want a special user interface – maybe not even a search box – but information at the click of a mouse!


CMSCMSCloud

ManagementSuite

ASG Product AreasASG Product Areas

AMSAMSApplication

Management Suite

ITOMSITOMSInfrastructure &

OperationsManagement

Suite

DIMSDIMSData &

InformationManagement

Suite

EAMSEAMSFoundation

Technology

Performance Performance ManagementManagement

Infrastructure Infrastructure ManagementManagement

Operations Operations ManagementManagement

Information and Information and Document Document

ManagementManagement

Metadata Metadata ManagementManagement

APMAPMApplication Portfolio Application Portfolio


Application Application Mainframe Mainframe


Cloud Portal Cloud Portal

Cloud Cloud Infrastructure Infrastructure ProvisioningProvisioning

Cloud Application on Demand

Cloud-in-a-BoxCloud-in-a-Box


Summary

metadata at the crossroads…

Documents

applications of metadata

metadata explosionmuch

enabled management

functionsmetadata management

enterprise model

subject models

transitioning enterprise

mit sloan management