Autodesk develops and distributes software for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries. As Autodesk continues to transform its business models, it identified several critical data models that required transformation to support future business endeavors. Working with business architecture, the data architecture team leveraged Autodesk’s capability map and information map to create business data models that ultimately became the basis for its business systems transformation.

This session will discuss the creation, ongoing maintenance, and governance of the Product Data Model, with a lens on its implications for a consistent data architecture spanning the operational system domains and its impact on initiatives that leverage this model to transform Autodesk’s overall business and interaction with customers.

Speaker: Iris Melendez

Data Architect
Autodesk

Iris Melendez is a Distinguished Data Architect for Autodesk, Inc. A highly experienced data architect with background spanning disciplines in enterprise transformation, she has been the vanguard for modernizing Autodesk's data architecture. Iris has championed the use of business architecture to define and refine business information models and has been instrumental in redefining Autodesk's customer and product models.

Speaker: Steven Scott

Director, Business Architecture
Autodesk

Steven Scott is the Director of Business Architecture at Autodesk. Steven has been driving critical business and system change at the forefront of Autodesk's business transformations for more than 20 years. He has been one of the key champions, evangelists, and leaders of Autodesk's move to business architecture-driven planning. Steven is a Certified Business Architect® (CBA®).