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Thursday May 20 at FCCJ:

IT Solution Approaches for the New Global Regulatory Environment.



The newest challenge for IT managers is how to cope with compliance to the
increasing number of regulations currently being enacted around the world in
every region and every industry. With issues such as the Sarbanes-Oxley,
Basel II, customer privacy legislation, traceability, hazmat, and
end-of-life regulations enacted around the world, it is a major challenge to
know what information within a company's databases may be used for what
purposes within and across borders.



John Linehan introduces the problems and shows the common solution patterns
through modern IT architectures. As data systems are integrated to be able
to meet the new rules, the "Data Quality Problem" rears its ugly head. Is
the need to move to huge centralized databases a return to the mainframe?
And how have the roles of Data Warehouses and Data Hubs changed in this new
age of Information Architecture? This promises to be a fascinating
presentation.



Speaker: John Linehan

Director, Sales Promotion Initiatives,

Oracle Corporation Japan



MEETING DETAILS

Date: Thursday May 20, 2004

Time: 6:30 (pm) Doors open, 6:30 Networking / cash bar.

7:10 Dinner*, 7:45 Presentation, 8:45 Finish

Venue: Yurakucho Denki Building, Foreign Correspondents' Club

Map <http://www.fccj.or.jp/static/aboutus/map.php>

Cost: 3,000 (yen) members, 5,500 (yen) non-members

*Dinner included in meeting cost. Cash bar available.

No-shows will be billed.



RSVP REQUIRED

If you would like to attend please RSVP on our sign up page
<http://www.icajapan.jp/signup.html> by 5:00 pm on Tuesday May 18.





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are IT and Business Improvement. We help our clients achieve quicker
time-to-market and increased shareholder value by creating project success.
We guarantee an increase in our client's project success rate.
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Foreign Executive Women <http://www.fewjapan.com/>

For women only

FEW (Foreign Executive Women - a networking organization for foreign women
in Japan www.fewjapan.com <http://www.fewjapan.com/> )



Regular Monthly Meeting

Thursday, May 13th, 2004

Doors Open at 6:30 pm



Guest Speaker: Leonie Boxtel, Director of The Australia-Japan Foundation

Topic: Challenges of Nonprofit Organizational Management



How do nonprofit groups meet the diverse and sometimes divergent demands of
their target audience as well as those of their founding board?

Leonie Boxtel, Director of The Australia-Japan Foundation (AJF), will
discuss the challenges facing the NPO to balance organizational goals, staff
management, and accountability to its stakeholders.

Leonie will focus on the crucial aspects of maintaining viability in the
current international arena, as well as outline major areas critical for
success.

Please go to FEW's site for registration/attendance details.



IT PROGRAM

Temple University Japan presents The Temple IT Program

Certification in two key IT areas: Computer Programming and Software Systems
Development.

Study to get a great job in IT, retrain to improve your career in IT, assess
and raise IT staff technical skills. Courses based on leading-edge course
content from iCarnegie (Carnegie Mellon University).

Application deadline: Friday May 14th for Summer 2004 courses.



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