Covering your bases: 2014 standards implementation and business planning

With the spring season starting, it’s time to think about upgrading your metadata to support Thema and ONIX 3.0. But how do you ensure that your team and equipment are ready to cover these bases? What changes do you need to make to play in an international market? How can you hit more home runs and score higher sales without breaking your budget? When do you move from the practice of new standards to game day with trading partners? This quick pep-talk will look at staffing considerations, software solutions for different sized companies, and the value and cost of metadata improvements... baseball metaphors included.