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Executive Education ProgramStrategies for Achieving Enterprise Integration Led by Kent Bimson, PhD

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1. The innovation imperative. Creating strategic advantage.

• From the Information to the Conceptual Age- “Big Picture” thinking - The role of semantic integration to the future of government and business

• Creating the innovation-driven organization- The knowledge basis for action

• The virtual enterprise• Real world examples

2. The semantic imperative. The business case for integration.

• The meaning behind frameworks: Semantics mortar for Enterprise, Information & Service-Oriented Architectures

• Future-proofing your legacy data: - Recapturing enterprise meaning from disparate data sources

• Leveraging semantic infrastructures for: - The Semantic Web - Net-Centric Data Strategies - Business Intelligence - Knowledge management initiatives

• Meeting new governance imperatives

3. Creating clarity.Achieving a shared understanding.

• How do we organize knowledge? • Common confusions:

taxonomies, ontologies, conceptual modeling, semantic modeling, meta data and enterprise models

• Understanding the “O” word: Ontology defined

• Dimensions of knowledge: - Capture, representation, analysis, delivery and maintenance

• Real world example

4. Semantic architecture. Amap for enterprise knowledge.

• The purposes of ontologies and semantic models • Creating meaningful enterprise concepts

from your data • Constructs of a semantic model:

- Concepts and instances - Attributes and relations - Axioms - Rules

• Relation types and uses: Connecting concepts in meaningful ways

• Formal foundations: Tightening up semantic interpretation

5. A virtual tour.Real world case study.In this walk-through session, team members will gain an overview perspective of the key steps involved in initiating a semantics project includinglessons learned from various implementations.

6. Return on meaning. Understanding your enterprise information values.

• ROI: Building strategic advantage

• Information Quality Values - Establishing stakeholder priorities in information delivery

- 10 lessons from the real world • The Information Values Assessment Process

- Learning what information most critically affects your work

- Identifying goals and targets for Information Quality

- How semantics improve quality

1. Knowing what you know. Building a semantic domain model.

• Four sources of domain concepts and relations • Five step process for an effective semantic model • Issues in advanced semantic architecture design • Real world case study

2. Getting real.Project steps for putting semantics to work.

• Drill down project walk-through• Implementing an ontology to semantically

integrate data• Gaining semantic insight:

Analyzing sources• Visualization• Project lessons learned

3. Tools to make it easier. Enabling semantic technologies.

• Current state of the integration industry• Modeling tools and methods • Identifying features relevant to your business • Real world examples

4. We speak your language. Representation Standards.

• The purpose of standards organizations • The purpose of representation language standards• Relationships among representation languages • The building blocks of expressive power

5. Metadata. Understanding the structural context.

• The importance of metadata for your business information

• Role of metadata in major initiatives and frameworks• Challenges in metadata capture and representation• Relationships among metadata,

data and semantic models • Obstacles to metadata representation

6. Life cycle management. Organically growing your semantic architecture.

• Hard business questions for management • Semantic model decision process • Key modeling questions for designers • The Semantic model lifecycle • Validation of integrated information • Model maintenance and version control • Risk management

7. The next big thing. Semantic web for the enterprise.

• Vision: Knowledge sharing and discovery- Automated approaches to achieving interoperability

- Systems that “understand” the meaning of content

- Information that describes itself• The Web and the growing need for semantics

and normalized representation• Infusing semantic information into content• Building an Enterprise Semantic Web

with a corporate ontology

8. Innovation. The real pay off.

• The future of meaning and meaning in the future • The role of conceptualization for the enterprise • Semantics:

The driver for industry standards and standards organizations

• The Semantic Enterprise: Creating knowledge for innovation

Preferred ratesLarge team discounts are available. Inquire about our grouprates at 1-800-397-9744. This course is also available to bescheduled on-site at your organization.

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Course fees (in US Dollars)

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Learn how to create clarity with Semantic Architecture and Ontology expertKent Bimson, PhD

Look out for our new course Service OrientedArchitectureSummer 2006


Integrate to InnovateDay1 Days2&3 Implementing the Semantic Enterprise

Intervista Institute faculty memberand leading expert in EnterpriseSemantic Technologies andModeling, Kent Bimson works withdiverse clients in governmentand business organizations on

complex integration challenges • He holds a PhD in Linguistics from UCLA and a M.S. in Computer Science from California StateUniversity Sacramento • Kent brings to thecourse many years of experience at SAIC,Lockheed and as an independent consultant •Among his projects is the support of the USAF45th Space Wing in supporting its KnowledgeManagement Initiative using an ontology tointegrate legacy structured and unstructuredinformation • His expertise includes enterpriseinformation integration, semantic and ontologymodeling and semantic technology strategy •

Dear Colleague,

Create clarity. Enable innovation. These are the emerging roles of information technology.

Although integration technologies have beenwith us already, the lack of formal semantics hasprevented true enterprise integration. With thisnew course, Intervista Institute brings togetherthe latest strategies in semantic architecture thatwill enable integration and support the ongoingimperative to innovate.

Led by expert Kent Bimson, PhD, this course willguide team members through the challenges ofintegrating heterogeneous data sources from different structures in order to achieve semanticinteroperability for the enterprise. Participants willalso understand how these approaches providethe semantic mortar for enterprise, informationand service-oriented architectures, knowledgebases, Web and other strategic initiatives.

Through real world case studies, team members will be introduced to how ontologies, metadataand enterprise models provide the structure forsemantic integration.

Semantics enable a sharedunderstanding of the enterprise.

The link between semantic integration, knowledgeand innovation is a critical one.

Join your colleagues and learnhow the SemanticEnterprise can help your organization see more clearly.

Teresa Di CairanoExecutive Director

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