Mr. Bockie will provide a presentation on Semantic Modeling.  This will be a review of the business perspective of “Data” or “Concepts or “Information”, with an emphasis on how it’s organized within the language of the business.   The approach presented offers a comprehensive methodology, for capturing the business terms and their definitions.

The Language of Business:

• Conveying Meaning
• Using Definitions to Facilitate a Shared Understanding of the Business.
• Gaining Agreement on Business Terms for a Shared Business Vocabulary
• Structuring the Language of Business
• Keeping a Record of the Language of Business.
• Putting Rigor into the Definition of the language of Business
• Verification of areas that will benefit from accurate Business Definitions.
• This is a Business Problem NOT an IS Problem.

Mr. Bockie is a well-rounded Information Technology (IT) professional with over 35 years of expertise in the Information Technology world. His primary focus currently is to develop Knowledge Management within the CAISO using Enterprise, Business and Information Architectures within the context of the Zachman Framework. He has worked extensively in Project Management, the use of CASE tools, Process and Data Modeling; the development of policies, standards, and methodologies; Information Strategic Planning (ISP) and Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR) techniques. He has performed Joint Application Development (JAD) session facilitation resulting in Feasibility Study Reports (FSR), and data management. He has prior solid experience with the development of systems through the full systems development life cycle. Mr. Bockie also believes that the people side of any development effort is the most important part.