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DAMA MidSouth Chapter is a not-for-profit, vendor-independent, professional organization dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise information resource management (IRM) and/or data resource management (DRM).

 
 
 
  • DAMA-I Publishes Results of International Survey

    Posted on 25 Jul 2008 by admin

    The Elusive Species of the Information Age: The Data Management Professional

    [From the report]  "At the recent DAMA International Symposium  Wilshire Metadata Conference (April 2006 in Denver, Colorado), the association conducted the first ever survey of Data Management Professionals.  The conference was attended by more than 1,000 professionals and about one third of the attendees participated in the survey.  The purpose of the survey was to learn more about the professional and its work environment"[.]

    You can read the full report here.

    Be sure to look for a reference to our own local chapter president, Mark Gillenson.

  • DAMA-I Revises Code of Ethics

    Posted on 25 Jul 2008 by admin

    This revised code was presented at the recent DAMA International Board of Directors meeting, and was introduced to the Chapter presidents who attended the Presidents' Council meeting. All DAMA-I board members and advisors have signed the code, and the chapter presidents who attended the meeting signed as well. You can find a copy of the Code of Ethics on the DAMA-I website.

    You can view the revised code here.

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  • May Meeting Speaker Announcement

    Posted on 14 May 2009 by admin

    DAMA Midsouth Chapter Presents:

    "Toolkits for the DBA"
    Thursday, May 21 2009 at International Paper

    International Paper, Tower 1
    6400 Poplar Ave.
    Memphis, TN 38119

    Reception: 4:00-4:30 PM
    Presentation: 4:30-6:00 PM

    Important Note:  Because of IP security requirements, you MUST register (below) for this event in advance.

    Reserve your seat | Download the Flyer (PDF)

    Empower today's Database Adminstrator (DBA) to drive business results and foster teamwork across the data environment with integrated data management tools for the DBA.  
     
    Better performing, more efficient DBAs more dollars for the business, higher customer satisfaction, lower TCO and maximized application and database uptime.  
     
    Arm your DBAs with a toolkit to help them automate tedious, repeatable tasks and implement best practices, pinpoint performance issues and meet SLAs for availability, performance and responsiveness.

    Featuring James Sobieski

    James Sobieski is the President and founder of Fourth Millennium Technologies. He has 30 years experience in large systems and database management. 
     
    James specializes in the design, implementation and performance and tuning of very large, very complex databases. He is an expert in Data Warehousing as well as OLTP systems, systems architecture, system migrations and performance and tuning. He has a deep knowledge of DB2 LUW and other database systems. 
     
    Before forming Fourth Millennium Technologies in 1997, James worked at the University of Houston Computing Center for five years and then IBM for 14 years at NASA, IBM’s Toronto Development Lab prototyping parallel processing for relational DBMS systems.

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    To reserve your seat, click here (or email us at dama.midsouth@gmail.com).

    Download the Flyer (PDF)

 
   
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