WHAT:   Great Plains DB2 Forum & IBM are hosting a FREE IBM Data Governance Road Show

 

 WHEN:   Tuesday, June 17th   8:30 AM – 3:30 PM

         

 WHERE:  Peter Kiewit Lodge

                  Eugene T. Mahoney State Park

                  Interchange 426 from Interstate 80

 

 COST:     FREE but please register by June 12th, 2008

 

NOTE:   One-day State Park permits can be picked up at the main gate.  You do not need to sign in, just let the guard know that you are attending the Great Plains DB2 Forum/IBM meeting. If you have a State Park annual pass, you DO NOT need to stop to let the guard know you’re attending the meeting or to pick up a one-day permit.

 

 

IBM Presents “Understanding and Applying Strategies for Data Governance”

 

Given the complex mixture of government and industry regulations, business drivers, convergence of technologies and the general advance of databases from version to version, Data Governance has become an important topic for organizations at all levels.

 

The purpose of this event is to provide you with information regarding some of the key areas of concern and best practices to help address them. Whether you are working on an existing project or looking to justify a new and/or overdue project, these educational sessions have been designed to help you. While the discussions will cover technical topics, business users will benefit from them as well.

 

Agenda

 

8:30 – 9:00 am              Check-in and Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 -- 9:15 am              Introduction and Welcome

 

9:15 - 10:15am              The Rise of e-Discovery

 

Recent updates to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) have placed an increased burden on IT organizations to produce data as part of a civil or criminal “e-discovery” request.  If your company received an e-discovery request today, would your IT organization have the capability to retrieve the appropriate information and supporting evidence to comply? Would you be able to meet the timeframes dictated by law and civil procedure? With the rise of the “new data center” and “paperless” application environments, most corporate data is managed electronically. Improving the way you manage information and being prepared for e-discovery simply makes good business sense.

 

10:15 – 10:30 am           Break

 

10:30 – 11:30 am           The ROI of Database Archiving

 

Database archiving is a best practice endorsed by industry leaders and analysts which can help organizations to improve performance of their key databases and environments, while also mitigating risks and allowing them to more effectively control costs.  But the benefits don’t stop there.  Join us as we explore case studies of how sites across industries have deployed archiving strategies to support compliance and discovery initiatives, decommission obsolete applications, leverage cost effective tiered storage and speed application upgrades – just to name a few.  Most importantly, learn how database archiving joins with your organizational goals of maximizing business value of your current IT infrastructure.

 

11:30 – 12:30 pm           Lunch   (optional demos available 12:00pm-12:30pm)

 

12:30 -- 1:00 pm            Data Privacy Primer

 

News segments from Dispatches (UK) and 60 Minutes (US) that highlight the latest issues around data theft

 

1:00 - 2:00 pm               Data Privacy – Closing the Gap

 

Privacy breaches are making headlines, as organizations scramble to protect the confidentiality of their critical customer and business data. While companies are making great strides in protecting data privacy in production application environments, the idea of implementing similar strategies in their testing environments is often overlooked.  This “Privacy Gap” needs to be addressed immediately, because it often represents the most exploited area of an organization’s IT infrastructure. Taking a proactive strategy to remove this vulnerability within your enterprise is recognized as a best practice and will help your organization with compliance with many national, international, and industry-specific regulations, while at the same time protecting your company from being the next “Privacy Breach Headline”

 

2:00 - 2:15 pm               Break

 

2:15 – 3:15 pm              Improve Test Data Management Efficiencies

 

The application development cycle requires significant amounts of time and resources in order to effectively launch new and/or improve applications.  When testing with structured data, many times a full clone of a production database is made for testing purposes, while a relationally intact “right-size” subset will give users the necessary data required for testing instead.  Join us for a step by step demonstration that explores how a relationally intact subset can be created from your production environment as well as how that subset can be inserted into a previously created database or one that is new.  See how forced errors can be used to test the quality of the application, and then compared against data not yet tested.

 

3:15 – 3:30 pm             Wrap-up and Farewell

                                          (Demos available on request)

 

 

 

Registration is open for the June 17th, 2008 event

“Understanding and Applying Strategies for Data Governance”.

This is presented by IBM in cooperation with Great Plains DB2 Forum.

 

To register, mail, fax, or e-mail Carol Rosenow with the information requested below.

 

Carol Rosenow                       Fax:  402 422-2080

Qwest Communications         Office: 402 422-4030

1299 Farnam St, 7th floor       Email:   carol.rosenow@qwest.com   

Omaha, NE 68102

 

Name:       ___________________________________________________

Title:          ___________________________________________________

Company:  ___________________________________________________

E-mail:        ___________________________________________________

Phone:       ___________________________________________________

A registration confirmation will be sent to the e-mail id listed above.

 

Please register by Thursday, June 12th, 2008. Questions, contact Carol Rosenow.