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Member Roles and Responsibilities

Business Contact

  • Recognize and promote business Return On Investment (ROI) of your PPDM Association membership. Work with decision and policy makers within your organization to understand and realize full membership benefits through support of work groups and other projects. Promote the Association within Industry through take up of PPDM products and endorsement of open standards.

  • Approve or recommend approval of your membership fee invoice within 30 days of receipt. Include work group sponsorship in this approval to ensure that the PPDM Association has sufficient funds to pursue all member priorities in a timely fashion.

  • Encourage key business and technical experts in your company to participate in work group activities to ensure that your business requirements are addressed through the PPDM process.

  • Support PPDM Compliant Products.

  • Ensure that your company is represented at key PPDM events such as conferences either through attendance or delivery of a business talk.

 
Technical Contact

  • Provide a focal point for PPDM related technical questions/issues within your company by supporting communication between developers and the Association, or by obtaining technical information when required

  • Be familiar with PPDM implementations in your company (and comparable implementations elsewhere).

  • Work with the Business Contact to identify ROI based on PPDM Association expenses (membership, sponsorships, other commitments) and PPDM implementations (databases, data exchange, data content, PPDM-based apps and data supply).

  • Help your company understand the technology issues of database systems, emerging trends (e.g. web-enabled, data exchange, data content, remote access, spatial, O-O, increasing dependence on out-sourced data mgmt, data model migration, compliance, etc).

  • Use your knowledge of your corporate structure to ensure that your company has the opportunity to have appropriate business or technical resources involved in PPDM work groups or projects.

  • Work with your company IT group to ensure that PPDM standards are employed wherever possible during software or database development or through the purchase of vendor products