Ian Rowlands

Vice President, Product Management
ASG

As Vice President of Product Marketing, Ian Rowlands is responsible for the communication of ASG's metadata-management based solutions. He manages participates in product launch and delivery plans and creation and management of partner relationships. He was previously VP of Metadata Development and VP for Product Management. Before ASG, Rowlands was Director of Indirect Channels for Viasoft, a leading EAM vendor (acquired by ASG) owning relationships with partners outside North America. Rowlands has worked extensively in metadata management, IT systems and financial management, and presented at conferences worldwide, including DAMA and CMG. Rowlands has many years of experience in applications design and development, has managed ADABAS, IDMS, and DB2 databases and designed systems to run on a variety of hardware and operating systems. Originally from the U.K., Rowlands is a Chartered IT Professional and standing member of the British Computer Society.

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Operational, Technology and Business Foundations for Success

Thursday, May 12th, 2016

09:00 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

09:30 Panel Discussion | Mastering Business Metadata and Providing Data Lineage

Metadata management is one of the pillars to the house of data management. A recent industry survey identified metadata management as an ongoing pain point for financial institutions. How can you better understand metadata and data lineage from the point of view and standpoint of the business? How do you peel back the onion and see lineage from the point of system of record and help the business to be the drivers of data?
Panelists will discuss:
• How to determine where business metadata needs to be deepest and most accurate
• How to make lineage more readable to auditors and downstream consumers
• How to build a sustainable set of roles, processes and a repository to maintain it and mature the data management organization

14:50 Panel Discussion | Building and Modernizing Architecture to Serve the Business and Improve Value

Some of the biggest banks and the smallest asset management firms have a key commonality - architecture in need of updates. Whether it’s complying with new regulations or retiring systems and building new platforms to support business capabilities, how can you ensure you have stable and consistent platforms in place? What exactly should you be looking for when creating architecture standards for different elements including business intelligence and analytics?
Panelists will discuss:
• Moving to service oriented architecture
• Reducing inconsistent legacy platforms to have a smaller list of authoritative sources and get quality from the source
• Building architecture across the enterprise linked to data quality capabilities