By Karen Lopez on Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:53 PM

John Zachman has announced changes to his operating companies. ZIFA will be winding down and Zachman International will be the primary organization for delivering Zachman Framework related products and services.

Stan Locke will be Managing Director and President, and John's son, John P. Zachman will be VP of Marketing.  David Kingston, of Toronto, will be VP Customer Support Systems.

Sam Holcman of Pinnacle Business Group and partner in ZIFA will be moving on to his work in EACOE.

John also announced a new website, which looks great (it also uses a content management system similar to InfoAdvisors' site).

• Register

• for our iPod Touch® Give-away! (even if you are already a member).

• for the new Enterprise Standards

• to see or print the new Enterprise Framework2 graphic.

• Review

• my own 'wikipedia' concise definition of The Zachman Framework.

• the details of Zachman Certified requirements for practitioners, methodologies and tools.

• current and popular articles and reference material.

• Frequently Asked Questions that I personally have answered.

• timely announcements and press releases.

• Purchase our support products (requires registration)

• Various editions of my eBook.

• any of the new Zachman Framework2 posters.

• the new Framework2 model kits .

• An annual subscription to access the MetaFrameworks research work

• See and plan for

• Attending a scheduled conference engagement

• Attending a MasterClass course on our schedule.

• Requesting an in-house seminars or executive briefings.

If you register for the new site (and you should, even if you previously registered with ZIFA), you will be eligible to win an iPod Touch.  John is doing the right thing by not assuming that information collected as part of ZIFA should be reused without your consent for ZI.  So get over there and register.

So get on over there, register, and dip into all the great stuff available.

Zachman International

By Karen Lopez on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 9:39 PM

As I posted previously in Discounted Complete Compare Education for PLC Members and Always Report Your ERwin Enhancement Requests via PLC, there are benefits to joining CA's Global PLC for Modeling.

Today PLC members were sent a spreadsheet of ERwin Enhancements and other changes for review, comment, and voting.  This is your chance to have your requests heard.

Some of the items listed overlap with our discussions on the ERwin User Discussion Group:

• Printing of all the subject areas at a time (one of my favorites since Web Publisher was killed off)
• Nested subject areas
• Complete Compare usability enhancements
• DBMS-specific issues
• Dialog usability enhancements

If you aren't a PLC member, now is the time to join to influence the direction of future versions of ERwin

http://causergroups.ca.com/UserGroups/Welcome.aspx?ID=397

 

By Karen Lopez on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 7:42 PM

The Federal Geographic Data Committee (www.fgdc.gov) has posted the US Department of Homeland Security Geospatial Data Model for review and comment.

 

Instructions are provided in the link below for supplying your comments.

Department of Homeland Security Geospatial Data Model — Federal Geographic Data Committee

By Karen Lopez on Friday, August 01, 2008 1:28 PM

It's Friday and I thought you'd all enjoy watching this video to remind you of your favorite data & process modeling sessions.  This one is about the interactions between overly-zealous marketing consultants and a designer, but I can certainly see parallels to some possible business processes I've been pitched by overly-zealous business people.

Of course, now that I think about it, I've definitely been pitched data models that looked a lot like the resulting product of this video...Hmmmmmm.

 

Creating A Stop Sign video

By Karen Lopez on Thursday, July 24, 2008 2:03 PM

The ERSIG organizers are pleased to announce the next ERSIG online meeting! Please join us on Wednesday, July 30, at 7PM UTC /6PM BST /1PM EDT /12PM CDT /11AM MDT /10AM PDT for...

"Going Beyond Database Modeling: LDMs for X-Solution Design and Integration," by Mehmet Orun from Genentech.

There will be a Q&A session following the presentation.

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Wednesday, July 30 at 7PM UTC /6PM BST /1PM EDT /12PM CDT /11AM MDT /10AM PDT

Meeting URL:

https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/embarcadero/join?id=ERSIGJuly&role=attend

&pw=ERSIG

Alternate URL:https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/embarcadero/join

Meeting ID: ERSIGJuly

Entry Code: ERSIG

Audio Conferencing (Toll): +1 (702) 902-0735

Audio Conferencing (Toll-free): +1 (866) 533-0065

Participant Code: ERSIG

FIRST-TIME USERS

To save time before the meeting, check your system to make sure it is ready to use Microsoft Office Live Meeting.

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=90703

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ERSIG meets online for an hour every other month. Users from the ER/Studio community will present on a variety of topics and we will have a Q&A session following the presentations. Please visit http://www.embarcadero.com/resources/usergroups.html for all the latest ERSIG information.

We hope to see you online.

Best regards,

Your ERSIG Leadership Team

Bruce Baum, Chris Bradley, Mehmet Orun, and Kevin Phelps

By Karen Lopez on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:01 PM

Just a reminder that the Call for Presentations is open for the 2009 DAMA Symposium and Wilshire Meta Data Conference.  In addition to having the benefit of being located in Tampa, FL, the DAMA Conference is the best managed, most informative gathering of data and information management professionals anywhere on the planet.

The most common complaint I hear about is that it is too hard to pick one session to attend in any one hour.  Rob and I blogged about last year's conference (available via our home page at www.infoadvisors.com) so you can get a feel for the depth and breadth of topics being covered.

I'm guessing that some of you are thinking "there's no way my boss will send me this year" due to reduced travel policies.  Well, one way to overcome that objection is for you to submit a presentation abstract that is chosen for the program. Speakers have their registration fees waived, making it easier for you to justify this expense.  And if your presentation is chosen as a half-day or full-day topic, you can get your travel expenses covered as well.   So you can get yourself to the conference.  In fact, that's how I've done it for 10 years or so.

I'll be posting again soon with some tips on how to increase your chances of having your proposal accepted as well as some tips to overcome that one last thing holding you back: "but I'll have to SPEAK!"

Start thinking now about a topic and watch for the follow up posts.

By Karen Lopez on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:40 PM

 

CA ERwin Data Modeler Garners Reader’s Choice Award from Visual Studio Magazine

Cited for Excellence among Software Design, Frameworks and Modeling Tools by Microsoft Developer Community

ISLANDIA, N.Y., July 7, 2008 – CA (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that CA ERwin Data Modeler received a "Reader's Choice" award from Visual Studio Magazine. Readers chose CA ERwin Data Modeler for excellence in the software design, frameworks and modeling category based on its proven ability to add value, efficiency and performance to customers worldwide.

This year's annual Reader's Choice award is based on Visual Studio-related products receiving the most votes from a survey sent to over 23,000 Visual Studio Magazine subscribers. The ballot included over 400 products across 22 categories.

CA ERwin Data Modeler Garners Reader’s Choice Award from Visual Studio Magazine - CA

By Karen Lopez on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:37 PM

CA is offering discounted training on ERwin R7 Complete Compare via webinar to PLC Modeling members.  So you have another reason to join the ERwin PLC.  Use the link below to join the PLC and to find out about special benefits offered to PLC Members.

PLC Modeling UserGroupHome

By Karen Lopez on Monday, July 21, 2008 4:38 PM

Greg Keller, Chief Evangelist for Embarcadero, talks to Jason Tiret and Josh Howard about the the directions for ER/Studio and ER/Studio Enterprise Portal. 

One of the nifty things mentioned is that anyone who participates in the Beta program for ER/Studio Enterprise Portal is eligible for a 20% discount on that product when it is releases.  What makes participat