Embarcadero Presents “Metadata Management Best Practices” Workshop And Showcases Tools at COLLABORATE 12 OAUG (Booth 1420)

Embarcadero Technologies, a leading provider of database and developer tools, will present an Educational Breakout session and showcase its tools in (booth 1420) at the COLLABORATE 12 conference, being held April 22-26, 2012 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. Joshua Travers and Scott Walz will present “Metadata Management: Putting the Management into Your Metadata” at 1pm on Wednesday, April 25 in Educational Breakout session #964.

This session will lay down best practices for ensuring your metadata is accessible and clear for every user. Organizations are plagued by both the over-organized metadata dictionary and the dirty-closet metadata dictionary. In either case, distributing data definitions to disparate users is a struggle. The answer to this is to use metadata search services to discover and distribute metadata. After all, why organize when you can just search searchable and accessible metadata.  Poor quality of the metadata and duplication across systems can ultimately make it more difficult for business users to understand or, worse, to trust their search results. The upshot is structuring and tagging the metadata upfront – even with a robust search function in place – will optimize the search, retrieval and interrogation of the results for end users.
 
About the Speakers
Scott Walz, Senior Director, Product Management, has more than 15 years of experience in the area of database development and currently serves as the senior director of product management for Embarcadero Technologies. In this position, Scott oversees the direction of the company’s Database product family, while focusing on database development and administration products. Prior to joining Embarcadero, Scott served as a development lead for Louisville Gas & Electric. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems from Western Kentucky University.
 
Joshua Travers is a Software Consultant and Global Lab Manager at Embarcadero. Josh has been in the IT industry for over 10 years and is an expert in virtualization implementations and database and design management. He also has a strong background in Citrix and VMWare and is a technical infrastructure guru with a certification in Computer Networks Engineering Technology.
 
COLLABORATE 12 is the annual Technology and Applications Forum for the Oracle community jointly hosted by the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG), the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) and Quest International Users Group (Quest).
 
About Embarcadero Technologies
Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of award-winning tools for application developers and database professionals so they can design systems right, build them faster and run them better, regardless of their platform or programming language. Ninety of the Fortune 100 and an active community of more than three million users worldwide rely on Embarcadero products to increase productivity, reduce costs, simplify change management and compliance and accelerate innovation. Founded in 1993, Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices located around the world. Embarcadero is online at www.embarcadero.com
 
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Contact Information

Colleen Martell

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Embarcadero

(1) 415-834-32131

colleen.martell@embarcadero.com