Metadata At The Crossroads…

1. Metadata At The Crossroads… 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 September 15, 2011

2. Agenda

3. Some History 1974 (approximately) : MSP Datamanager 1986 R&O Rochade 2001 Soamai becubic 2009 ASG-metaGlossary 2011 ASG-METAMDM LAN Repository Reltech Brownstone

4. The Crossroads Metadata management as a capability to optimize essential BUSINESS functions Metadata management as a capability to optimize essential IT functions Metadata management as a capability to enable real-time IT

5. Where We Stand ASG deploys a valuable and increasingly interconnected set of metadata solutions – but it’s not enough! ASG-metaGlossary Business Glossary ASG-Rochade Enterprise Repository ASG-Manager ProductsMainframe Repository ASG-becubic Applications Repository ASG-metaCMDBInfrastructure Repository

6. How The World Is Changing

7. Megatrends: The Metadata Explosion "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) Semantic (Meaning) Richness Syntactic (Structural) Richness

8. Increasing IT Driven Business Risk • 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• Bad decisions • Using the wrong information • Using the right information incorrectly • Using information that is • out of date • Risk of corporate exposure • Governance and compliance • Data theft • Criminal and corporate liability • Loss of intellectual property • Legal repercussions How can information risks be mitigated? • 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

9. The Demand For A Changing IT Cost Model

10. 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

11. The Transitioning Enterprise IT Environment Public Cloud Mainframe Virtualized Private Cloud Distributed

12. How Does This Affect Metadata Management?

13. Industrialized Metadata Management Applications Dependent on “Craft Work” “Master Class” Skills shift to USAGE not creation

14. Example metaApp Roadmap for Server Provisioning Phase 1 Phase 3 Phase 2 Phase 4

15. The Broadened Scope Of Metadata Management Off Premise Cloud On-Premise Computing The logical enterprise server On-Premise Cloud The dispersed workforce

16. The Broadened Scope Of Metadata Management Managed Environment Managing Environment Consuming Environment Where does the metadata reside?

17. Model / metamodel relationships: Current State

18. The Metadata Landscape Business Rules Governance Information Business Processes Semantic Repository Enterprise Repository Application Repository Data models and definitions Web Services Registries Infrastructure (metaCMDB)

19. A Simple Proposal Application ModelsWhich inherit from: The Enterprise ModelWhich consolidates: 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 Subject ModelsWhich reconcile / rationalize: Terminology Organization Processes RDBMS’s Applications Technology-specific Models ARIS Provision Oracle DB2 Java PL/I

20. Refining The Subject Model Terminology – describing business concepts is, in a sense, the “master” and bridges the other “subjects” Terminology Data Content Process Applications Services

21. 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!

22. ASG Product Areas Cloud Portal Performance Management ITOMS Infrastructure & Operations Management Suite DIMS Data & Information Management Suite CMS Cloud Management Suite EAMS Foundation Technology Cloud Application on Demand Operations Management Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning Infrastructure Management Cloud-in-a-Box AMS Application Management Suite APM Application Portfolio Management Information and Document Management Application Mainframe Management Metadata Management

23. Summary