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mohanraj · Post by **mohanraj** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:40 am

Hi to all

Please anyone explain me what is SME and what is the use of it ???
Your inputs are very precious to me..

Thanks in advance
Mohan

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:44 am

It's a three letter acronym. To the best of my knowledge it is not used in the Ascential suite of products.

My best guess would be Subject Matter Expert.
Or School of Mechanical Engineering.
Or Steamboat Model Engineers.
Or South Melbourne Eagles (a football team).

DSguru2B · Post by **DSguru2B** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:49 am

Do you mind expanding on SME? Or atleast tell us where you heard about his term and in what context.

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:56 am

Could it be SMEagol you are looking at? If so, it is a common medical condition affecting DataStage developers that, over time, tends to eliminate them from the gene pool. It is caused by lack of daylight and by crooning over DS jobs (sometimes accompanied by chants of "there, my lovely" when compiling) for hours on end. There is no known cure; mainly because medical researchers feel that SMEagoled patients deserve what they get and haven't bothered searching.

kumar_s · Post by **kumar_s** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:00 am

Inorder to avoid getting sinked in volcanic eruption, may be you need to get rid of the Datastage illusion created by Sauron.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:17 am

Oh my... a reference to Smeagol when inputs are mentioned as precious.

To quote Scotty: "We're goin' nowhere might fast, Captain".

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:30 am

I prefer "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here"

DSguru2B · Post by **DSguru2B** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:02 pm

Look at you guys, heheh. The OP does'nt even know what hit him, or her

kcbland · Post by **kcbland** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:50 pm

Subject Matter Expert, pronounced "SHMEE". A person who has intimate knowledge of a business area, use of an end-user application, or data content. A non-technical role, someone who can explain how a business does a particular activity. Often, this person works with a technical analyst to define how a business works in a particular area so that a technical analyst can research and define how the application records and stores the particular information.

kumar_s · Post by **kumar_s** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:06 pm

I worked with Small and Medium scale Enterprise Banking and they use to call it as SME banking.

narasimha · Post by **narasimha** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:33 pm

The OP is going to be surprised with the different answers possible for the acronym provided.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:15 am

Wasn't Mr Smee Captain Hook's offsider?

mohanraj · Post by **mohanraj** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:34 am

thanks to all of you

Actually in one of the interview they asked me what is datastage sme.this made me to ask you guys.

thanks for your answers once again

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:23 pm

Which answer did you give?

DSguru2B · Post by **DSguru2B** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:22 pm

May be thats the next datastage version to be released in 2020