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System Innovations
-- Integration modeling, data warehousing, data strategy
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"Your paper titled Introducing Integration
Modeling: Templates for Business Transformation, has been selected as
the best paper presented in the session Business Process Modeling,
Reengineering, Dynamic Modeling and Workflow.
The quality of the paper you submitted in the session gave to the
conference prestige and great success. Quality papers like yours are
highly appreciated, necessary condition for the success of our conferences."
- Professor Nagib Callaos
SCI 2000/ISAS 2000 General Chair
Biographical
Information
Laura Brown
helps business and technical managers deliver systems solutions, as
senior technical advisor and management consultant to fortune 500
companies. Ms. Brown is President of System Innovations, specializing in
e-business integration, business modeling and other large scale technical
projects.
With over 17 years in Information Technology, Ms. Brown is President of
System Innovations, where she works with clients to plan the enterprise
infrastructures (people, processes and technology) needed to deliver
e-business initiatives. Her independent perspective is highly valued
by clients seeking an objective point of view from an industry expert
unaffiliated with any specific tool or product vendor.
Her client company list includes:
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Ernst
& Young, where Laura worked with business
representatives to identify and define web services offerings, including
online portals for employees and customers, and defining the .NET and
P2P architectures required for business collaboration.
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General
Electric, where Laura defined e-business
integration for customer value and digital optimization systems in the
GE Power Systems Contractual Services division.
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Grizzard
Advertising Agency, where she designed a
marketing productivity data warehouse for their client, The American Red
Cross, reengineering the data transformation process to utilize SOAP/XML,
and defining a database replication scheme to provide synchronization.
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Synergistic
Solutions, Inc.,
where Laura designed the architecture
for Web-based J2EE systems providing enterprise application integration
to SSI’s clients: USWest and BellSouth.
Delta
Airlines, where she supported development of Delta’s Strategy for Data
Services & Administration. She also designed Delta’s Model Management integration
strategy.
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Nationwide
Insurance, where she designed and directed development of a Marketing prototype
for the direct sales division, introducing integration models for linking Marketing data
to Claims, Policy and other information already residing in the Data Warehouse.
GTE Wireless
Services, whose YEAR 2000 effort utilized Integration Models for designing the
YEAR 2000 Inventory Repository.
Concert, PLC,
where she developed Requirements Models for integrating new test equipment into their
Integrated Test Management System. Laura provided implementation models for initiation of
a "Request For Proposal" Process with systems vendors.
Ceridian
Employment Services, whose Application Development process Laura reengineered,
working with management and executive teams to determine desired project outcomes.
Norrell
Services, where she delivered Enterprise-Level Business Models, working with
business executives and process owners to define how Norrell’s future processes will
be integrated and automated. Laura supported the technical team installing PeopleSoft
backbone systems by using Integration Models to orient the team, configure the system and
provide the basis for system requirements.
Accustaff,
Incorporated, where she developed Integration Models of Sales Branch Operations
by interviewing Branch personnel at multiple sites. The models integrated the differing
practices of acquired companies to support the introduction of new technology and of
architectural framework for Accustaff’s highly successful strategy of growth by
acquisition and merger.
Laura has also
represented systems integration consulting firms such as Digital Equipment
Corporation, Computer Professionals, Inc. (CPi) and Naviant
to their clients. She presented Integration Modeling
techniques at the first and second OMG-sponsored e-business
integration conferences in 2000 and 2001 and at the SCI2000 World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and
Informatics, serving as chairperson for the session on
Business Process Modeling, Reengineering, Dynamic Modeling and
Workflow.
Laura speaks regularly at
conferences and educational forums. Her business and technology
articles are featured online at informIT.com, EACommunity.com and ganthead.com.
Recent articles appearing in
online publications (SecurityFocus.com, MSDN, InformIT.com, TechNet)
include:
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- Last Updated: March 18, 2002
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