Webinars
Where Data Meets SOA: Data Services
Date: June 28, 2006
Time:
12:00 pm US Eastern
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Featured Speakers:
Craig Muzilla, Senior Vice President, Marketing, MetaMatrix Inc. (bio)
Ted Friedman, Research VP, Gartner (bio)
Moderator:
Sandy Kemsley
Sponsored By:
Most organizations today are moving steadily toward implementing a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for standards-based software interoperability and business flexibility. However, most organizations forget about the data issues associated with true interoperability until it's too late. This MetaMatrix Webinar, featuring Gartner, will discuss how Data Services can address the data access, interoperability and re-use challenges within SOA environments.
Part 1 - Featuring Gartner
Ted Friedman, Gartner Research VP, will present the following:
Where Data Meets SOA: The Emerging Data Services Vision
The concept of data services is gaining interest as an approach for ensuring that data and data integration challenges in SOA are adequately addressed. Data services will increasingly become recognized as a critical component of SOA initiatives. This portion of the Webinar will explore the data-oriented challenges in SOA and how data services can assist in addressing those challenges. The key issues addressed in this presentation will include:
- Why are data and data integration critical to achieving the flexibility and interoperability benefits of SOA?
- What is the concept of data services and how can it address these challenges?
- What are the classes of data services and what roles do they play?
- How do metadata and semantics impact the deployment of data services and SOA?
Part 2 - Featuring MetaMatrix
Craig Muzilla, MetaMatrix, will present the following:
Deploying Data Services: Real World Lessons and Solutions for Data Interoperability
In this part of the Webinar, we'll discuss how the best practices in Data Services involve metadata and using data modeling to facilitate vocabulary driven transformations. This portion of the Webinar will also discuss how a new class of model-driven software products called data services management systems is helping companies create, deploy and manage their data services. This presentation discusses how these solutions can facilitate greater data sharing and consistency while reducing development cost and time. The key issues addressed in this part will include:
- Best practices in creating, deploying and managing data services
- How a data models help drive data consistency, re-use while reconciling semantic and other data differences
- What role does metadata play
- How data services can be used to deploy real-time views of data across multiple data sources
- Real world experiences of data services to provide "single view of customers"

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Featured Speaker Bios:
Craig Muzilla is Senior Vice President of Marketing for MetaMatrix where
he is responsible for driving corporate and product strategy and driving
the overall marketing, product marketing, and product management
functions. Craig has over 20 years experience leading strategy,
marketing, product management and business development functions for
high profile enterprise software companies. He has extensive experience
with application integration and data integration technologies.
Prior to joining MetaMatrix, Craig was Vice President of Strategy and
Marketing for Avaki Corporation, a leader in the enterprise data
integration software market. At Avaki he developed a product and market
strategy that resulted in the successful acquisition of the company by
Sybase Corporation. Prior to Avaki Craig was Vice President of Marketing
and Business Development for OpenPages, a leader in the enterprise
compliance and content management market. Craig was also Vice President
of Marketing for Bowstreet, a pioneer in providing software for Web
Services infrastructure and SOA. Craig has also held various senior
product marketing and product management positions for the enterprise
software units of Samsung and Eastman Kodak, as well as for Lotus
Development Corporation.
Craig holds an MBA with honors from Boston University and a BA from Ohio
State University.
Ted Friedman is a vice president in Gartner Research, where he is a member of the Data Management & Integration team. His research focuses on data integration and data quality.
Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Friedman was employed by several large companies, including Andersen Consulting and GE, where he designed and deployed large-scale relational database applications, business intelligence systems and advanced information technologies. He has more than 20 years of experience in the information technology field.
I greatly enjoy assisting Gartner clients in thinking strategically about how they manage a critical corporate resource -- their data.