Technical Report Writing

Class Work 01

Topic Write a trip report

Course Instructor: Miss Mariam Batool

Registration # Name
Submitted by: 18-ME-24 Muhammad Uzair

Obtained Marks:

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

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Table of Contents

Introduction ................................................................................................................................................. 3
Discussion .................................................................................................................................................... 3
1. Data Management is next Big Thing ............................................................................................. 3
i. Unstructured Data ...................................................................................................................... 4
ii. Information Privacy.................................................................................................................... 4
iii. People Integration ................................................................................................................... 4
iv. The Death of Data Management ............................................................................................ 4
v. Data on the Balance Sheet .......................................................................................................... 4
2. Managing Information Quality in an Integrated World ............................................................. 4
3. The Future of Data Management .................................................................................................. 5
Recommendation......................................................................................................................................... 5

List of Figures

Figure 1 - Data Management Cycle ............................................................................................................. 3

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Date December 12, 2020

Introduction
The conference was held on December 10,2020 and I with my 3 colleagues attended the said
conference at Peral Hotel, Karachi. The main agenda of the conference was to educate people
about the importance of data management in an industry irrespective of its working domain.
Furthermore, the speakers focused on technologies to enhance a company’s data management
system.

Discussion
The conference was classified into three major divisions

1. Data Management is next Big Thing

This session discussed numerous trends in data management that may have significant implications
for the future.

Figure 1 - Data Management Cycle

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i. Unstructured Data – Arshad Hassan, editor of DAN.com, predicted that the need to
manage unstructured data, including text, geospatial data, video, audio, etc. is a huge trend,
especially as it relates to content and knowledge management. Traditional data
management practitioners should watch this trend closely, because they have the right skills
to contribute significantly to this emerging field.
ii. Information Privacy – Tuaha Qureshi of Info-Advisors highlighted information privacy
requirements as one of the next big things for data management professionals. As many of
the Fair Information Practices require meta data management and an enterprise view of
data, he believes that data architects are best prepared to step up to the challenge to assist
the organizations to meet these requirements. Data architects who ignore these trends
towards more personal data privacy may find themselves unable to meet business demands
and ultimately to meet customer demands.
iii. People Integration – Muaz Ibn Saeed of Data Models Inc. predicted that the human
component of IT implementation needs much more attention than it has in the past.
iv. The Death of Data Management – Talha Mirza provoked the audience with the assertion
that centralized data management does not work. He suggested that the traditional notion
of a highly “controlled” data function is mostly perceived by the rest of the business as
“getting in the way.”
v. Data on the Balance Sheet – the audience asked when the “value of data” would appear
on the corporate balance sheet as an asset. The speakers view was that, in the wake of
recent accounting scandals, it would take a long time before accountants would settle on
standards for valuing data.

2. Managing Information Quality in an Integrated World

Agilent Information Quality Program Manager, Agilent Technologies Poor data quality — the
cause of many problems in any data migration project. Danette shared the approaches, tools, and
processes used to improve information quality (IQ) in a large-scale data migration project at
Agilent Technologies. In migrating all ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems worldwide -
finance, procurement, order management, manufacturing and planning - Agilent is focusing on the

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front end (fixing data prior to migration) to save five times backend costs due to rework, delayed
schedules, and data that will not load. Specific recommendations included;

i. Implementing tools and processes for data analysis in the source system as early in the
migration process as possible. Comparing the source data to the target requirements
identifies gaps. Options for tools and process flows were shared.
ii. Data cleansing in the source systems is always the first ‘line of defense’, focusing on:
• current business requirements sans new target system;
• addressing ‘gaps’ previously noted, and
• changes identified via results from testing loads to the new application.
iii. Where legacy system changes are not possible, the same specifications are applied to the
transform and load programs. Be prepared to create data required by the new systems that
doesn't exist in legacy systems or replace data with quality so poor that it cannot be used.
iv. Team structure and roles and responsibilities were covered, including relationships with
teams outside of the data migration group.
v. Proactively addressing IQ resulted in ahead of or on-schedule test cycles and an overall
increase in successful record loads.

3. The Future of Data Management

As the name suggested, this portion of conference removed all the ambiguities f the audience and
urged them to use modern data management tools. The speakers told that in a relatively short
amount of time, the IT profession has come from punched cards and paper tape to petabyte data
warehouses. And as technology has progressed, so has the stewardship and management of the
technological environment. This presentation outlined how data management has evolved through
the many different advances in technology over the years.

Recommendation

My team and I found this conference very beneficial and suggest not only to indulge all employees
in such conferences and trips but also to be a host of such conferences in near future. In this way
more people will interact with us and we will be able to satisfy customer demands.

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I highly recommend to train our current data management team according to modern time needs
and incorporate new programs and technology to take care of customer data to the best satisfactory
level.