Ca e rwin modeling global user communities_09232010 - webcast
1. CA ERwin® Modeling Global User Communities
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Modeling Global User Community Board
Tom Bilcze, MGUC President
2. About the Session and Speaker
• Overview of Global Modeling User Communities
– CA Technologies Modeling Global User Community
– CA Technologies Regional User Communities
– Other Virtual Modeling User Communities
• Modeling Global User Community Update
• Speaker: Tom Bilcze
– President, CA Technologies Modeling Global User Communities Board
– Lead database Designer, Westfield Group, Westfield Center, Ohio
– Founder of Ohio Enterprise Modeling User Group
– Held various leadership positions on user community boards
– CA ERwin® and Model Manager user for 15 years
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4. CA Technologies
Modeling Global User Community
• Independent customer community supported by CA Technologies
• Managed by elected governing board of customers
• Direct access to CA development teams and organizations
• Offers support to 26 regional modeling user communities
• Over 1,300 CA ERwin® users are global user community members
• Focuses on the following CA solutions
• CA ERwin® Data Modeler
• CA ERwin® Data Profiler
• CA ERwin® Process Modeler
• CA ERwin® Model Manager
• CA ERwin® Data Model Validator
• CA ERwin® Model Navigator
• CA ERwin® Saphir Option
https://communities.ca.com/web/ca-modeling-global-user-community
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5. CA Technologies
Modeling Global User Community
• Offers
• Collaboration through online forums, presentations, blogs
• Peer to peer networking, support and education
• Knowledge exchange for best practices, tips and tricks
• Regular webcasts featuring topics of interest to the user community
• Input into CA through voting and prioritization of selected product enhancements
• Access to subject-matter experts
• Modeling Global User Community Board
• Meets monthly to manage user community interests and activities
• Schedules quarterly educational and informational user community webcasts
• Supports regional user community presidents with a quarterly webcast
• Actively engaged in discussions with CA Technologies concerning product direction, focus and
support on behalf of the community
• Publishes information of interest to the global user community
• Facilitates communications with community members and CA Technologies
• Facilitates communications across regional user communities and CA Technologies
https://communities.ca.com/web/ca-modeling-global-user-community
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6. Modeling Global User Community
Board Members
• Tom Bilcze - President Westfield Group
tombilcze@westfieldgrp.com CA Portal Name: tombilcze
• Steve McMahon - Vice President Kaiser Permanente
steve.mcmahon@kp.org CA Portal Name: SteveMc
• Daniel Dechichio - Secretary Raymond James & Associates, Inc
Dan.Dechichio@RaymondJames.com CA Portal Name: DanDechichio
• Francois C. Cartier - Treasurer e-Modelers
FCCartier@scif.com CA Portal Name: francois
• Hanne Christensen - VP Programs Bankdata
hpe@bankdata.dk CA Portal Name: hanne_deug
• Luis-Ignacio Gonzalez - VP Communications Telefonica Spain
luisignacio.gonzalezfernandez@telefonica.es
• Garry Gramm - Enhancement Request Coordinator Workers’ Compensation Board of BC
Garry.Gramm@Worksafebc.com CA Portal Name: garryg
CA Technologies Board Members
• Robert Rachlin CA Customer Programs
• Donna Burbank Product Marketing Manager
• Neil Buchwalter Product Manager Brand Management
• Danny Sandwell Product Manager Brand Management
• Kathy Meara Channel Marketing Program Manager
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7. My CA and User Community Portals
https://communities.ca.com (formerly www.causergroups.com)
Launched at CA World 2010 with the redesign of ca.com
– My CA
• Personal configurable portal page and profile
• Facebook like friending to network and connect with friends and colleagues
• You don’t need to be a CA customer
• Open, update and view CA Technologies Support cases
• Download documentation and license products
• Access your user communities
– User Communities’ Portals
• Self-approving user community memberships
• Participate in discussion forums to share tips, techniques and insights
• Community news and events (webcasts, education)
• Personal and user community blogs that add personal perspectives
• User community document sharing
• More to come!
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9. Modeling Global User Community Portal
https://communities.ca.com/web/ca-modeling-global-user-community
• Basic MGUC information: About Us, Officers, Mission and Vision
• Latest news and calendar of events
• Links to user community webcast replays
• List of members for friending and networking
• Links to regional user communities portals
• Access to message board (CA ERwin® General Discussion)
• Document sharing
– MGUC monthly board meeting minutes
– MGUC presentations: meetings, webcasts, etc.
– Product enhancement requirements documents
– Miscellaneous documents of interest to our community
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12. Modeling Regional User Communities
• Independent communities supported by CA Technologies
– 14 USA regional user communities
– 12 international user communities
• Managed locally by CA ERwin® users and partners
• Provides local meeting and educational opportunities
• Meeting format, frequency and content within the local community
• Strength is networking with local data professionals
• Programs provide knowledge exchange for best practices, tips and tricks
• To locate your closest modeling regional user community…
– https://communities.ca.com/web/ca-modeling-global-user-community
– Regional communities are found on left under “Related Communities”
– You can join as many regional communities as you wish
• Modeling Global User Community works in partnership with regional
communities
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13. USA
Modeling Regional User Communities
– Albany Enterprise Modeling User Group
– Bay Area Enterprise Modeling User Group
– Charlotte Enterprise Modeling User Group
– Chicagoland Association for ERwin® User Group
– Greater Portland Modeling User Group
– Kansas City Modeling User Group
– Nebraska-Iowa CA-ERwin® User Group
– New York Enterprise Modeling User Group
– Ohio Enterprise Modeling User Group
– Philadelphia Enterprise Modeling User Group
– Southeast Enterprise Modeling User Group
– Texas Modeling User Group
– Twin Cities ERwin® Modeling User Group
– Utah Modeling User Group
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14. International
Modeling Regional User Communities
• Canada
– National Capitol Region ERwin® User Group
– Toronto Area CA Modeling User Group
• Europe & Africa
– BeNeLux Modeling User Group
– Danish ERwin® User Group
– Grupo de Usuarios de Modelado de Espana
– Russian CA ERwin® Modeling User Group
– South African CA Erwin® Modeling User Group
– Swedish CA-ERwin® User Group
– Switzerland Modeling User Group
– UK & Ireland Modeling User Group
• Asia Pacific
– New South Wales Data Modeling User Group
– Japan Enterprise Modeling User Group
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16. Virtual Modeling User Communities
ERwin.com
• http://erwin.com/
• Everything, anything ERwin®!
• Access to CA Technologies product
pages for testimonials, success
stores, white papers, etc
• Downloads, on-line store, resellers
• Expert Blogs
– Malcolm Chisholm
– Tom Haughey
– Steve Hoberman
– William McKnight
– Alec Sharp
• Discussion forum
• User communities
• And much, much more…
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17. Virtual Modeling User Communities
Facebook
• http://www.facebook.com
Search for “CA ERwin Modeling”
• CA ERwin® home on the largest social
network in the world
• Friend and follow fellow CA ERwin®
community members
• Wall posts from CA Technologies and
community members
• Photo albums of user community and CA
Technologies events
• Links to upcoming modeling user
community events
• Post a thought, question or idea for
feedback on the CA ERwin® Modeling
wall
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18. Virtual Modeling User Communities
LinkedIn
• http://www.linkedin.com
Join the “CA ERwin Modeling”
group
• CA ERwin® home on the
popular professional social
network
• Post a thought, question or
idea in the Discussion Forum
• Locate fellow CA ERwin®
community members and add
them to your contacts
• Utilize the LinkedIn job board
for employment opportunities
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19. Virtual Modeling User Communities
Twitter
• http://www.twitter.com/erwinmodeling
• Efficient as a smart phone mobile app
• Effective for instantaneous messaging
• Send messages of 140 characters or less
(tweets)
• Build a friend network similar to
Facebook
– People follow you
– You follow people
• Organize people into lists
• Follow other people’s lists of interest
(@datawhisperer/data-management)
• Can follow or be followed at events or in
discussions with a hash tag (#erworld)
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20. Modeling Global User Community
Update
• CA World 2010
• Regional modeling user communities president’s feedback
• MGUC Board current activities
• Parting thoughts
21. CA World 2010
Modeling Global User Community Update
• CA changed their name to CA Technologies
• CA announced new My CA and user communities’ portal
• 2009-2010 CA ERwin® enhancement requests
– Reviewed prioritized MGUC enhancement requests with CA ERwin® team
– CA responses were added and published in the MGUC portal documents
• MGUC morning and afternoon MGUC member meetings
– Neil Buchwalter gave a quick tour of CA ERwin® 8.0 via MS Live Meeting
– Attendee discussions referred to MGUC Board for action
• Knowledgebase our portal site for tips, techniques, option sets, and macros
• Schedule quarterly CA MGUC webcasts for the year with advance notice
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22. Regional User Community Presidents Feedback
Modeling Global User Community Update
• MGUC held a webcast for regional user community presidents in August 2010
• Priorities from survey responses and presidents’ comments and feedback
– Delivering informational and educational webcasts should be the highest
priority for the MGUC during 2010-2011
– Almost unanimous support for a Global Modeling User Community
Knowledgebase
– Finding speakers and programs for regional user community meetings is the
toughest issue facing presidents
– MGUC Board should facilitate communications and discussions during the
CA ERwin® r8 beta.
– Continue quarterly MGUC webcasts to the regional user community
presidents
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23. MGUC Board current Activities
Modeling Global User Community Update
• 2011 Product enhancement request process
– CA ERwin® r8 impact on scheduling and collection
– Exploring new options to become more timely and responsive
– Leverage MY CA portal and social media
• Future webcast topics
– Social media
– CA ERwin® r8 beta experiences
– CA ERwin® r8 new features
– Data related topics such as BI, Data Quality, Metadata Management, MDM
• CA World 2011 speakers and sessions
– It’s not too early to think about speaking!
– Watch for the call for speakers
• User community peer recognition
– Early discussions on establishing a program
– Recognition would receive some sort of financial support from the MGUC
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24. Some Parting Thoughts
• Join the Modeling Global User Community today
• Join your regional modeling user community
• Participate in our quarterly MGUC educational webcasts
• Join CA ERwin® social media groups: Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter
• Visit ERwin.com frequently and read the expert blogs
• Participate in the CA ERwin® r8 Beta
• Email me your thoughts about the Modeling Global User Community
tombilcze@westfieldgrp.com
• Friend me and other CA ERwin® users on your My CA portal page
• Join us at CA World in Las Vegas in November 2011 as a speaker
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25. Thank You
Question & Answer Time
• Thank you for attending our session!
• Please feel free to contact the MGUC Board members
– Tom Bilcze, President: tombilcze@westfieldgrp.com,
My CA Name: tombilcze
– Steve McMahon, Vice President, steve.mcmahon@kp.org,
My CA Name: SteveMc
– Daniel Dechichio, Secretary: Dan.Dechichio@RaymondJames.com,
My CA Name: DanDechichio
– Francois C. Cartier, Treasurer: FCCartier@scif.com,
My CA Name: francois
– Hanne Christensen, VP Programs: hpe@bankdata.dk,
My CA Name: hanne_deug
– Luis-Ignacio Gonzalez, VP Communications: luisignacio.gonzalezfernandez@telefonica.es
– Garry Gramm, Enhancement Coordinator: Garry.Gramm@Worksafebc.com,
My CA Name: garryg
• Question and Answer period: It’s time to hear from you!
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