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Trish O’Kane and Clare Somerville jointly addressed key concepts for record keepers relating to data, databases and data warehouses. They also talked about good practice in data management and how to connect it up to recordkeeping metadata.

Recordkeepers, used to a document-centric view of records, may struggle to think of how to apply recordkeeping concepts to data.

Talk of “preserving databases” and even “transferring databases” just doesn’t cut it in the data world. The picture is often much bigger than individual databases.

Knoware is a principal sponsor for the SAS Users Conference held again in Wellington this year, and Knoware’s Dave Shea, Todd Nicholson and Clare Somerville delivered presentations. “Attendance numbers at this year’s event was fantastic, and all the people I talked with found it very worthwhile” said Clare Somerville.

Please contact us if you would like copies of any of Knoware’s papers.

Clare Somerville – Managing Director attended the Gartner Conference held in Sydney in February 2012. A regular attendee, Clare said the subject areas covered by this year’s conference are very relevant to the challenges being faced by NZ organisations working to effectively manage their enterprise information systems. Hot topics included: Agile BI, Predictive Analytics Collaborative Decision Making, Master Data Management, Consumerisation and the Future of BI. Having briefed Knoware’s team of consultants, Clare is available to provide briefing and can be contacted by emailclare.somerville@knoware.co.nz see the Contact Us page for more options.