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DESCRIPTION:Click for Latest Location Information: http://das2018.dataversi
 ty.net/sessionPop.cfm?confid=124&proposalid=10028\n<p>Getting off your lega
 cy systems is hard.&nbsp;One of the reasons is that the arbitrary function,
  process, and data boundaries of legacy systems makes it hard to improve th
 em incrementally.&nbsp;It&rsquo;s even hard to think of how you would impro
 ve them.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>In this presentation, we will show how the data-cent
 ric approach can be used as an organizing principle, and how the technology
  can be used in incremental migration.</p>\n<p>If you are in a large enterp
 rise, you know that you have a datascape of unfathomable complexity.&nbsp;I
 t&rsquo;s highly likely that you have over 1 million data elements under ma
 nagement (if you have even one installation of SAP, you&rsquo;re virtually 
 there already, and who stops at just one ERP system these days?)</p>\n<p>If
  you&rsquo;re looking at your existing data (or god forbid your data lake, 
 which is essentially the sum total of all your managed data plus whatever y
 ou could harvest from the web) you&rsquo;re looking through the wrong end o
 f the telescope</p>\n<p>Once you realize that a single simple conceptual mo
 del covers all the key concepts and relations in your firm you are halfway 
 there.&nbsp;When you see this as the lens through which you can see and pla
 n the demise of your legacy systems, you are three-fourths of the way there
 .&nbsp;When you grok that this model is directly implementable and can be t
 ied directly to your legacy systems, you are seven-eighths of the way there
 . Zeno of Elea and his famous paradox tells us you will never get there, bu
 t any engineer worth his or her salt will tell you that you will rapidly ge
 t close enough.</p>\n<p>After attending this talk, participants will:</p>\n
 \n
 Realize that it is possible to create an enterprise ontology that covers an
 d organizes almost all the important concepts in even a large organization\
 n
 Appreciate the perspective such a model provides for the complex task of le
 gacy replacement planning\n
 Be able to articulate an approach that is hundreds of millions of dollars c
 heaper than either continuing to feed the monster or embarking on a traditi
 onal legacy replacement project\n\n
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SUMMARY:A Data-Centric Approach to Legacy Modernization
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