Date/Time
Thursday April 3, 2008 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm (EDT)

Who Should Attend
IT Managers, Business Managers, Data Architects, Metadata Project Managers, Data Warehouse and BI Managers, Data Governance/Compliance Managers

Gavilan Research Presentation
The webinar will feature metadata industry expert Stu Carty, who will discuss the typical challenges that Global 5000 companies face today in supporting data governance and compliance. He will present lessons learned from successes and failures in real world data governance initiatives; and practical tips and best practices for effectively using metadata management to support data governance.

Adaptive Presentation
Adaptive will present how its premier metadata management repository solution, Adaptive Metadata Manager™, helps address these challenges.

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About Adaptive

Adaptive is a global corporation providing a web-based and industry standards compliant Metadata and Enterprise Architecture Management Repository. Its products are open, enterprise-scale software that integrate architecture information from modeling tools, office applications and operational systems.

Adaptive Foundation™ is a repository platform that enables Adaptive and its partners to quickly create Adaptations which encompass techniques, tools and analytical capabilities tailored to target specific domains or markets. The Adaptive suite includes a number of “Adaptations”, including Adaptive Enterprise Architecture Manager™ (EAM), Adaptive Metadata Manager™ (MM) and Adaptive IT Portfolio Manager™ (ITPM).

Adaptive works with many large organizations and governments around the world to address the challenges of enterprise architecture, business performance improvement, IT governance, meta-data management and Model Driven Architecture™.

Max Gano, VP and General Manager, Information Delivery Services at Adaptive recently joined the company. As part of his initial responsibilities, Max is spearheading the framework and organization for managing Adaptive product requirements, marketing, packaging, delivery, and quality assurance for Metadata offerings. He is also focusing on understanding requirements and opportunity areas for interoperability with best of breed third-party technologies. As part of this effort, he will participate in industry standards bodies representing Adaptive such as the Object Management Group (OMG®), to help fuel Adaptive’s commitment to an open architecture. Max has over 15 years of experience in data and information management, most recently serving at Washington Mutual as Vice President of Data Architecture for the Information Management Governance program. He was a member of the core leadership team delivering a two-year Data Management Program, establishing one of the financial industry’s most mature platforms of capabilities and processes in support of enterprise information management.

James Cerrato, Chief Product Officer at Adaptive, is responsible for the full product lifecycle of all of Adaptive’s products. Prior to working for Adaptive, James co-founded a leading enterprise architecture modeling tool vendor. During this time he guided the successful development and release of a suite of products including enterprise architecture modeling tools and web portals. In his role as representative to the Object Management Group (OMG®), James participated in the OMG Object Analysis and Design task force that developed the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®). In addition to his involvement with the OMG, James speaks frequently at conferences.

About Gavilan Research

Gavilan Research Associates (GRA) is an expert consulting firm that helps companies to evaluate and select enterprise technology solutions. GRA is the world's foremost authority on metadata management applications and vendor/product research.

Stu Carty, the Principal & Founder of GRA, is an accomplished, international metadata solutions expert with 20 years progressive experience in the enterprise software industry. Mr. Carty has worked for notable metadata companies such as Informatica, Data Advantage Group, R&O Software (the original vendor of Rochade), Manager Software Products, Viasoft, and Reltech Group (the original vendor of CA's Advantage Repository). Stu gave his first metadata presentation over 20 years ago at Portland-DAMA. Since then, Mr. Carty has personally given over one thousand presentations & training workshops to Global 5000 companies on enterprise metadata management and has successfully helped hundreds of companies to evaluate, select, & implement metadata management solutions.

For more information about Stu Carty and Gavilan Research Associates, please visit www.gavilanresearch.com