Because every organization produces and propagates data as part of their day-to-day operations, data trends are becoming more and more important in the mainstream business world’s consciousness. For many organizations in various industries, though, comprehension of this development begins and ends with buzzwords: “Big Data”, “NoSQL”, “data scientist”, and so on. Few realize that any and all solutions to their business problems, regardless of platform or relevant technology, rely to a critical extent on the data model supporting them. As such, data modeling is not an optional task for an organization’s data effort, but rather a vital activity that facilitates the solutions driving your business.
Instead of the technical minutiae of data modeling, this webinar will focus on its value and practicality for your organization. In doing so, we will:
- Address fundamental data modeling methodologies, their differences and various practical applications, and trends around the practice of data modeling itself
- Discuss abstract models and entity frameworks, as well as some basic tenets for application development
- Examine the general shift from segmented data modeling to more business-integrated practices
Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – What’s the Next Big ThingDATAVERSITY
Digital Transformation is a top priority for many organizations, and a successful digital journey requires a strong data foundation. Creating this digital transformation requires a number of core data management capabilities such as MDM, With technological innovation and change occurring at an ever-increasing rate, it’s hard to keep track of what’s hype and what can provide practical value for your organization. Join this webinar to see the results of a recent DATAVERSITY survey on emerging trends in Data Architecture, along with practical commentary and advice from industry expert Donna Burbank.
Today, data lakes are widely used and have become extremely affordable as data volumes have grown. However, they are only meant for storage and by themselves provide no direct value. With up to 80% of data stored in the data lake today, how do you unlock the value of the data lake? The value lies in the compute engine that runs on top of a data lake.
Join us for this webinar where Ahana co-founder and Chief Product Officer Dipti Borkar will discuss how to unlock the value of your data lake with the emerging Open Data Lake analytics architecture.
Dipti will cover:
-Open Data Lake analytics - what it is and what use cases it supports
-Why companies are moving to an open data lake analytics approach
-Why the open source data lake query engine Presto is critical to this approach
Data-Ed Webinar: Data Modeling FundamentalsDATAVERSITY
Because every organization produces and propagates data as part of their day-to-day operations, data trends are becoming more and more important in the mainstream business world’s consciousness. For many organizations in various industries, though, comprehension of this development begins and ends with buzzwords: “Big Data,” “NoSQL,” “Data Scientist,” and so on. Few realize that any and all solutions to their business problems, regardless of platform or relevant technology, rely to a critical extent on the data model supporting them. As such, Data Modeling is not an optional task for an organization’s data effort, but rather a vital activity that facilitates the solutions driving your business.
Instead of the technical minutiae of Data Modeling, this webinar will focus on its value and practicality for your organization. In doing so, we will:
Address fundamental Data Modeling methodologies, their differences and various practical applications, and trends around the practice of Data Modeling itself
Discuss abstract models and entity frameworks, as well as some basic tenets for application development
Examine the general shift from segmented Data Modeling to more business-integrated practices
Discuss fundamental Data Modeling concepts based on “The DAMA Guide to the Data Management Body of Knowledge” (DAMA DMBOK)
ADV Slides: What the Aspiring or New Data Scientist Needs to Know About the E...DATAVERSITY
Many data scientists are well grounded in creating accomplishment in the enterprise, but many come from outside – from academia, from PhD programs and research. They have the necessary technical skills, but it doesn’t count until their product gets to production and in use. The speaker recently helped a struggling data scientist understand his organization and how to create success in it. That turned into this presentation, because many new data scientists struggle with the complexities of an enterprise.
ADV Slides: The Evolution of the Data Platform and What It Means to Enterpris...DATAVERSITY
Thirty years is a long time for a technology foundation to be as active as relational databases. Are their replacements here?
In this webinar, we look at this foundational technology for modern Data Management and show how it evolved to meet the workloads of today, as well as when other platforms make sense for enterprise data.
IT + Line of Business - Driving Faster, Deeper Insights TogetherDATAVERSITY
Marketo helps customers master the science of digital marketing with the analytics it provides customers. Internally, Marketo found itself afflicted with “Excel mania” and suffering from the side effects that come with it, including slow time to insights and hours lost on mundane but critical data prep. This quickly changed when they bet their BI strategy on Alteryx, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Tableau.
Join us and hear from Tim Chandler, head of BI and data solutions, and learn how:
the stack is enabling more efficient analytics processes, as well as providing governance and scalability
IT and line of business (LOB) are effectively working together to uncover more insights, faster – saving time and resources in the process
an enterprise-class data architecture is driving business engagement and dashboard adoption across the entire company
Register now to learn how you can improve your analytics processes - leading to faster, deeper insights.
Slides: Enterprise Architecture vs. Data ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides a visual blueprint of the organization, and shows key interrelationships between data, process, applications, and more. By abstracting these assets in a graphical view, it’s possible to see key interrelationships, particularly as they relate to data and its business impact across the organization. Join us for a discussion on how data architecture is a key component of an overall enterprise architecture for enhanced business value and success.
Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – What’s the Next Big ThingDATAVERSITY
Digital Transformation is a top priority for many organizations, and a successful digital journey requires a strong data foundation. Creating this digital transformation requires a number of core data management capabilities such as MDM, With technological innovation and change occurring at an ever-increasing rate, it’s hard to keep track of what’s hype and what can provide practical value for your organization. Join this webinar to see the results of a recent DATAVERSITY survey on emerging trends in Data Architecture, along with practical commentary and advice from industry expert Donna Burbank.
Today, data lakes are widely used and have become extremely affordable as data volumes have grown. However, they are only meant for storage and by themselves provide no direct value. With up to 80% of data stored in the data lake today, how do you unlock the value of the data lake? The value lies in the compute engine that runs on top of a data lake.
Join us for this webinar where Ahana co-founder and Chief Product Officer Dipti Borkar will discuss how to unlock the value of your data lake with the emerging Open Data Lake analytics architecture.
Dipti will cover:
-Open Data Lake analytics - what it is and what use cases it supports
-Why companies are moving to an open data lake analytics approach
-Why the open source data lake query engine Presto is critical to this approach
Data-Ed Webinar: Data Modeling FundamentalsDATAVERSITY
Because every organization produces and propagates data as part of their day-to-day operations, data trends are becoming more and more important in the mainstream business world’s consciousness. For many organizations in various industries, though, comprehension of this development begins and ends with buzzwords: “Big Data,” “NoSQL,” “Data Scientist,” and so on. Few realize that any and all solutions to their business problems, regardless of platform or relevant technology, rely to a critical extent on the data model supporting them. As such, Data Modeling is not an optional task for an organization’s data effort, but rather a vital activity that facilitates the solutions driving your business.
Instead of the technical minutiae of Data Modeling, this webinar will focus on its value and practicality for your organization. In doing so, we will:
Address fundamental Data Modeling methodologies, their differences and various practical applications, and trends around the practice of Data Modeling itself
Discuss abstract models and entity frameworks, as well as some basic tenets for application development
Examine the general shift from segmented Data Modeling to more business-integrated practices
Discuss fundamental Data Modeling concepts based on “The DAMA Guide to the Data Management Body of Knowledge” (DAMA DMBOK)
ADV Slides: What the Aspiring or New Data Scientist Needs to Know About the E...DATAVERSITY
Many data scientists are well grounded in creating accomplishment in the enterprise, but many come from outside – from academia, from PhD programs and research. They have the necessary technical skills, but it doesn’t count until their product gets to production and in use. The speaker recently helped a struggling data scientist understand his organization and how to create success in it. That turned into this presentation, because many new data scientists struggle with the complexities of an enterprise.
ADV Slides: The Evolution of the Data Platform and What It Means to Enterpris...DATAVERSITY
Thirty years is a long time for a technology foundation to be as active as relational databases. Are their replacements here?
In this webinar, we look at this foundational technology for modern Data Management and show how it evolved to meet the workloads of today, as well as when other platforms make sense for enterprise data.
IT + Line of Business - Driving Faster, Deeper Insights TogetherDATAVERSITY
Marketo helps customers master the science of digital marketing with the analytics it provides customers. Internally, Marketo found itself afflicted with “Excel mania” and suffering from the side effects that come with it, including slow time to insights and hours lost on mundane but critical data prep. This quickly changed when they bet their BI strategy on Alteryx, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Tableau.
Join us and hear from Tim Chandler, head of BI and data solutions, and learn how:
the stack is enabling more efficient analytics processes, as well as providing governance and scalability
IT and line of business (LOB) are effectively working together to uncover more insights, faster – saving time and resources in the process
an enterprise-class data architecture is driving business engagement and dashboard adoption across the entire company
Register now to learn how you can improve your analytics processes - leading to faster, deeper insights.
Slides: Enterprise Architecture vs. Data ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides a visual blueprint of the organization, and shows key interrelationships between data, process, applications, and more. By abstracting these assets in a graphical view, it’s possible to see key interrelationships, particularly as they relate to data and its business impact across the organization. Join us for a discussion on how data architecture is a key component of an overall enterprise architecture for enhanced business value and success.
DAS Slides: Data Architect vs. Data Engineer vs. Data ModelerDATAVERSITY
The increasing focus on data in today’s organization has increased demand for critical roles such as data architect, data engineer, and data modeler. But there is often confusion and ambiguity around what these roles entail, and what overlap exists between them. This webinar will discuss these data-centric roles and their place in the data-driven organization.
Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – What’s the Next Big Thing?DATAVERSITY
Digital Transformation is a top priority for many organizations, and a successful digital journey requires a strong data foundation. Creating this digital transformation requires a number of core data management capabilities such as MDM, With technological innovation and change occurring at an ever-increasing rate, it’s hard to keep track of what’s hype and what can provide practical value for your organization. Join this webinar to see the results of a recent DATAVERSITY survey on emerging trends in Data Architecture, along with practical commentary and advice from industry expert Donna Burbank.
Data-Ed Slides: Data Architecture Strategies - Constructing Your Data GardenDATAVERSITY
Data architecture is foundational to an information-based operational environment. Without proper structure and efficiency in organization, data assets cannot be utilized to their full potential, which in turn harms bottom-line business value. When designed well and used effectively, however, a strong data architecture can be referenced to inform, clarify, understand, and resolve aspects of a variety of business problems commonly encountered in organizations.
The goal of this webinar is not to instruct you in being an outright data architect, but rather to enable you to envision a number of uses for data architectures that will maximize your organization’s competitive advantage.
With that being said, we will:
- Discuss data architecture’s guiding principles and best practices
- Demonstrate how to utilize data architecture to address a broad variety of organizational challenges and support your overall business strategy
- Illustrate how best to understand foundational data architecture concepts based on the DAMA International Guide to Data Management Body of Knowledge (DAMA DMBOK)
DI&A Webinar: Building a Flexible and Scalable Analytics ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Join us as we review the ins and outs of creating a modern analytics environment by looking at the components of analytics architecture, best practices in implementing complex analytics, and the most common pitfalls to avoid.
Learn more about:
- When these architectures should be employed
- Architecture for Big Data systems: components for ad-hoc analysis and modeling, batch operational analysis, big data governance, and real-time operational analysis
- Best practices in environment evolution and analytics implementation
Data Architecture, Solution Architecture, Platform Architecture — What’s the ...DATAVERSITY
A solid data architecture is critical to the success of any data initiative. But what is meant by “data architecture”? Throughout the industry, there are many different “flavors” of data architecture, each with its own unique value and use cases for describing key aspects of the data landscape. Join this webinar to demystify the various architecture styles and understand how they can add value to your organization.
DAS Slides: Data Quality Best PracticesDATAVERSITY
Tackling data quality problems requires more than a series of tactical, one off improvement projects. By their nature, many data quality problems extend across and often beyond an organization. Addressing these issues requires a holistic architectural approach combining people, process and technology. Join Nigel Turner and Donna Burbank as they provide practical ways to control data quality issues in your organization.
Data-Ed Webinar: Data Quality Strategies - From Data Duckling to Successful SwanDATAVERSITY
Good data is like good water: best served fresh, and ideally well-filtered. Data management strategies can produce tremendous procedural improvements and increased profit margins across the board, but only if the data being managed is of a high quality. Determining how data quality should be engineered provides a useful framework for utilizing data quality management effectively in support of business strategy, which in turn allows for speedy identification of business problems, delineation between structural and practice-oriented defects in data management, and proactive prevention of future issues.
Over the course of this webinar, we will:
Help you understand foundational data quality concepts based on the DAMA Guide to Data Management Book of Knowledge (DAMA DMBOK), as well as guiding principles, best practices, and steps for improving data quality at your organization
Demonstrate how chronic business challenges for organizations are often rooted in poor data quality
Share case studies illustrating the hallmarks and benefits of data quality success
ADV Slides: Building and Growing Organizational Analytics with Data LakesDATAVERSITY
Data lakes are providing immense value to organizations embracing data science.
In this webinar, William will discuss the value of having broad, detailed, and seemingly obscure data available in cloud storage for purposes of expanding Data Science in the organization.
Implementing the Data Maturity Model (DMM)DATAVERSITY
The Data Management Maturity (DMM) model is a framework for the evaluation and assessment of an organization’s Data Management capabilities. This model—based on the Capability Maturity Model pioneered by the U.S. Department of Defense for improving software development processes—allows an organization to evaluate its current-state Data Management capabilities, discover gaps to remediate, and identify strengths to leverage. In doing so, this assessment method reveals organizational priorities, business needs, and a clear path for rapid process improvements.
In this webinar, we will:
Describe the DMM model, its purpose and evolution, and how it can be used as a roadmap for assessing and improving organizational Data Management and Data Management Maturity
Discuss how to get the most out of a DMM assessment, including its dependencies and requirements for use
Discuss foundational DMM concepts based on “The DAMA Guide to the Data Management Body of Knowledge” (DAMA DMBOK)
ADV Slides: Databases vs Hadoop vs Cloud StorageDATAVERSITY
Relational databases are old technology, right? Thirty years is a long time for a technology foundation to be as active as relational databases, but, like NFL coaches, we must “tolerate them until we can replace them.” Are their replacements here? In this webinar, we say no.
Databases have not sat around while Hadoop emerged. The Hadoop era generated a ton of interest and confusion, but is it still relevant as organizations are deploying cloud storage options like a kid in a candy store? We’ll discuss Hadoop’s continued potential relevance and the cloud storage option that seems vital. Use what when? This is a critical decision that can dictate two to five times additional work effort if it’s a bad fit.
Drop the herd mentality. In reality, there is no “one size fits all” right now. We need to make our platform decisions against this backdrop.
This webinar will distinguish these analytic deployment options and help you platform 2019 for success.
Agile & Data Modeling – How Can They Work Together?DATAVERSITY
A tenet of the Agile Manifesto is ‘Working software over comprehensive documentation’, and many have interpreted that to mean that data models are not necessary in the agile development environment. Others have seen the value of data models for achieving the other core tenets of ‘Customer Collaboration’ and ‘Responding to Change’.
This webinar will discuss how data models are being effectively used in today’s Agile development environment and the benefits that are being achieved from this approach.
DataEd Slides: Unlock Business Value Using Reference and Master Data Manageme...DATAVERSITY
Data tends to pile up and can be rendered unusable or obsolete without careful maintenance processes. Reference and Master Data Management (MDM) has been a popular Data Management approach to effectively gain mastery over not just the data but the supporting architecture for processing it from a master/transaction perspective. This webinar presents MDM as a strategic approach to improving and formalizing practices around those data items that provide context for organizational transactions – its master data. Too often, MDM has been implemented technology-first and achieved the same very poor track record (1/3 succeeding on-time, within budget, achieving planned functionality). MDM success depends on a coordinated approach involving typically Data Governance and Data Quality activities. Program learning objectives include:
• Understanding foundational reference and MDM concepts
• Why they are an important component of your Data Architecture
• Awareness of Reference and MDM Frameworks and building blocks
• What consists of MDM guiding principles and best practices
• How to utilize Reference and MDM in support of business strategy
DAS Slides: Data Modeling Case Study — Business Data Modeling at KiewitDATAVERSITY
Kiewit has been a leader in the construction industry since 1884. Key to the organization’s success is not only its focus on high quality engineering and its forward-thinking workforce, but its ability to manage complexity in a clear, concise, and data-driven way. As part of the organization’s strategic initiative to become even more data-driven in the way it estimates and manages projects, conceptual data models were built to create an overview of critical key data assets. Data architecture diagrams resonated well with key stakeholders who were well accustomed to driving success based on architectural diagrams, and these models were a key driver for the future data strategy for the organization. Join this webinar to learn more about Kiewit’s path to success through business-focused data models.
Data-Ed Online Webinar: Business Value from MDMDATAVERSITY
This presentation provides you with an understanding of the goals of reference and master data management (MDM), including establishing and implementing authoritative data sources, establishing and implementing more effective means of delivery data to various business processes, as well as increasing the quality of information used in organizational analytical functions (such as BI). You will understand the parallel importance of incorporating data quality engineering into the planning of reference and MDM.
Takeaways:
What is reference and MDM?
Why are reference and MDM important?
Reference and MDM Frameworks
Guiding principles & best practices
Data-Ed Online: Data Architecture RequirementsDATAVERSITY
Data architecture is foundational to an information-based operational environment. It is your data architecture that organizes your data assets so they can be leveraged in your business strategy to create real business value. Even though this is important, not all data architectures are used effectively. This webinar describes the use of data architecture as a basic analysis method. Various uses of data architecture to inform, clarify, understand, and resolve aspects of a variety of business problems will be demonstrated. As opposed to showing how to architect data, your presenter Dr. Peter Aiken will show how to use data architecting to solve business problems. The goal is for you to be able to envision a number of uses for data architectures that will raise the perceived utility of this analysis method in the eyes of the business.
Takeaways:
Understanding how to contribute to organizational challenges beyond traditional data architecting
How to utilize data architectures in support of business strategy
Understanding foundational data architecture concepts based on the DAMA DMBOK
Data architecture guiding principles & best practices
Data Integration is a key part of many of today’s data management challenges: from data warehousing, to MDM, to mergers & acquisitions. Issues can arise not only in trying to align technical formats from various databases and legacy systems, but in trying to achieve common business definitions and rules.
Join this webinar to see how a data model can help with both of these challenges – from ‘bottom-up’ technical integration, to the ‘top-down’ business alignment.
Data-Ed Online: Unlock Business Value through Reference & MDMDATAVERSITY
In order to succeed, organizations must realize what it means to utilize reference and MDM in support of business strategy. This presentation provides you with an understanding of the goals of reference and MDM, including the establishment and implementation of authoritative data sources, more effective means of delivering data to various business processes, as well as increasing the quality of information used in organizational analytical functions, e.g. BI. We also highlight the equal importance of incorporating data quality engineering into all efforts related to reference and master data management.
Learning objectives include:
What is Reference & MDM and why is it important?
Reference & MDM Frameworks and building blocks
Guiding principles & best practices
Understanding foundational reference & MDM concepts based on the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK)
Utilizing reference & MDM in support of business strategy
Data-Ed Online: Unlock Business Value through Document & Content ManagementDATAVERSITY
Organizations must realize what it means to utilize document and content management in support of business strategy. The volume of unstructured data is growing at an enormous pace. While we are still far away from automated content comprehension, increasingly sophisticated technologies are extending our business and data management capabilities into more critical and regulated areas. This presentation provides you with an understanding of the dimensions of these new developments, including electronic and physical document monitoring, storage systems, content analysis and archive, retrieve and purge cycling.
Learning objectives include:
What is Document & Content Management and why is it important?
Planning and Implementing Document & Content Management
Document/Record Management Lifecycle
Levels of Control
Content management building blocks
Guiding principles & best practices
Understanding foundational document & content management concepts based on the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK)
How to utilize document & content management in support of business strategy
Data-Ed Online Webinar: Data Architecture RequirementsDATAVERSITY
Data architecture is foundational to an information-based operational environment. It is data architecture that organizes data assets so they can be used in your business strategy to create real business value. Even though this is important, data architectures are still being used ineffectively. The various uses of data architecture are referenced to inform, clarify, understand, and resolve aspects of a variety of business problems commonly encountered in organizations. As opposed to showing how to architect data, your presenter Dr. Peter Aiken will show how to use data architecture to solve business problems. The goal is for you to be able to envision a number of uses for data architectures that will maximize your organization’s competitive advantage.
Takeaways:
•How to utilize data architecture to address a broad variety of organizational challenges and how to utilize data architectures in support of business strategy
•Understanding foundational data architecture concepts based on the DAMA DMBOK
•Data architecture guiding principles & best practices
Data-Ed Webinar: Data Modeling FundamentalsDATAVERSITY
Every organization produces and consumes data. Because data is so important to day to day operations, data trends are hitting the mainstream and businesses are adopting buzzwords such as Big Data, NoSQL, data scientist, etc., to seek solutions for their fundamental issues. Few realize that the importance of any solution, regardless of platform or technology, relies on the data model supporting it. Data modeling is not an optional task for an organization’s data effort. It is a vital activity that supports the solutions driving your business.
This webinar will address fundamental data modeling methodologies, as well as trends around the practice of data modeling itself. We will discuss abstract models and entity frameworks, as well as the general shift from data modeling being segmented to becoming more integrated with business practices.
Learning Objectives:
How are anchor modeling, data vault, etc. different and when should I apply them?
Integrating data models to business models and the value this creates
Application development (Data first, code first, object first)
DataEd Slides: Data Modeling is FundamentalDATAVERSITY
Because every organization produces and propagates data as part of their day-to-day operations, data trends are becoming more and more important in the mainstream business world’s consciousness. For many organizations in various industries, though, comprehension of this development begins and ends with buzzwords: “Big Data,” “NoSQL,” “Data Scientist,” and so on. Few realize that any and all solutions to their business problems, regardless of platform or relevant technology, rely to a critical extent on the data model supporting them. As such, Data Modeling is not an optional task for an organization’s data effort, but rather a vital activity that facilitates the solutions driving your business. Since quality engineering/architecture work products do not happen accidentally, the more your organization depends on automation, the more important are the data models driving the engineering and architecture activities of your organization. This webinar illustrates Data Modeling as a key activity upon which so much technology depends.
DAS Slides: Data Architect vs. Data Engineer vs. Data ModelerDATAVERSITY
The increasing focus on data in today’s organization has increased demand for critical roles such as data architect, data engineer, and data modeler. But there is often confusion and ambiguity around what these roles entail, and what overlap exists between them. This webinar will discuss these data-centric roles and their place in the data-driven organization.
Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – What’s the Next Big Thing?DATAVERSITY
Digital Transformation is a top priority for many organizations, and a successful digital journey requires a strong data foundation. Creating this digital transformation requires a number of core data management capabilities such as MDM, With technological innovation and change occurring at an ever-increasing rate, it’s hard to keep track of what’s hype and what can provide practical value for your organization. Join this webinar to see the results of a recent DATAVERSITY survey on emerging trends in Data Architecture, along with practical commentary and advice from industry expert Donna Burbank.
Data-Ed Slides: Data Architecture Strategies - Constructing Your Data GardenDATAVERSITY
Data architecture is foundational to an information-based operational environment. Without proper structure and efficiency in organization, data assets cannot be utilized to their full potential, which in turn harms bottom-line business value. When designed well and used effectively, however, a strong data architecture can be referenced to inform, clarify, understand, and resolve aspects of a variety of business problems commonly encountered in organizations.
The goal of this webinar is not to instruct you in being an outright data architect, but rather to enable you to envision a number of uses for data architectures that will maximize your organization’s competitive advantage.
With that being said, we will:
- Discuss data architecture’s guiding principles and best practices
- Demonstrate how to utilize data architecture to address a broad variety of organizational challenges and support your overall business strategy
- Illustrate how best to understand foundational data architecture concepts based on the DAMA International Guide to Data Management Body of Knowledge (DAMA DMBOK)
DI&A Webinar: Building a Flexible and Scalable Analytics ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Join us as we review the ins and outs of creating a modern analytics environment by looking at the components of analytics architecture, best practices in implementing complex analytics, and the most common pitfalls to avoid.
Learn more about:
- When these architectures should be employed
- Architecture for Big Data systems: components for ad-hoc analysis and modeling, batch operational analysis, big data governance, and real-time operational analysis
- Best practices in environment evolution and analytics implementation
Data Architecture, Solution Architecture, Platform Architecture — What’s the ...DATAVERSITY
A solid data architecture is critical to the success of any data initiative. But what is meant by “data architecture”? Throughout the industry, there are many different “flavors” of data architecture, each with its own unique value and use cases for describing key aspects of the data landscape. Join this webinar to demystify the various architecture styles and understand how they can add value to your organization.
DAS Slides: Data Quality Best PracticesDATAVERSITY
Tackling data quality problems requires more than a series of tactical, one off improvement projects. By their nature, many data quality problems extend across and often beyond an organization. Addressing these issues requires a holistic architectural approach combining people, process and technology. Join Nigel Turner and Donna Burbank as they provide practical ways to control data quality issues in your organization.
Data-Ed Webinar: Data Quality Strategies - From Data Duckling to Successful SwanDATAVERSITY
Good data is like good water: best served fresh, and ideally well-filtered. Data management strategies can produce tremendous procedural improvements and increased profit margins across the board, but only if the data being managed is of a high quality. Determining how data quality should be engineered provides a useful framework for utilizing data quality management effectively in support of business strategy, which in turn allows for speedy identification of business problems, delineation between structural and practice-oriented defects in data management, and proactive prevention of future issues.
Over the course of this webinar, we will:
Help you understand foundational data quality concepts based on the DAMA Guide to Data Management Book of Knowledge (DAMA DMBOK), as well as guiding principles, best practices, and steps for improving data quality at your organization
Demonstrate how chronic business challenges for organizations are often rooted in poor data quality
Share case studies illustrating the hallmarks and benefits of data quality success
ADV Slides: Building and Growing Organizational Analytics with Data LakesDATAVERSITY
Data lakes are providing immense value to organizations embracing data science.
In this webinar, William will discuss the value of having broad, detailed, and seemingly obscure data available in cloud storage for purposes of expanding Data Science in the organization.
Implementing the Data Maturity Model (DMM)DATAVERSITY
The Data Management Maturity (DMM) model is a framework for the evaluation and assessment of an organization’s Data Management capabilities. This model—based on the Capability Maturity Model pioneered by the U.S. Department of Defense for improving software development processes—allows an organization to evaluate its current-state Data Management capabilities, discover gaps to remediate, and identify strengths to leverage. In doing so, this assessment method reveals organizational priorities, business needs, and a clear path for rapid process improvements.
In this webinar, we will:
Describe the DMM model, its purpose and evolution, and how it can be used as a roadmap for assessing and improving organizational Data Management and Data Management Maturity
Discuss how to get the most out of a DMM assessment, including its dependencies and requirements for use
Discuss foundational DMM concepts based on “The DAMA Guide to the Data Management Body of Knowledge” (DAMA DMBOK)
ADV Slides: Databases vs Hadoop vs Cloud StorageDATAVERSITY
Relational databases are old technology, right? Thirty years is a long time for a technology foundation to be as active as relational databases, but, like NFL coaches, we must “tolerate them until we can replace them.” Are their replacements here? In this webinar, we say no.
Databases have not sat around while Hadoop emerged. The Hadoop era generated a ton of interest and confusion, but is it still relevant as organizations are deploying cloud storage options like a kid in a candy store? We’ll discuss Hadoop’s continued potential relevance and the cloud storage option that seems vital. Use what when? This is a critical decision that can dictate two to five times additional work effort if it’s a bad fit.
Drop the herd mentality. In reality, there is no “one size fits all” right now. We need to make our platform decisions against this backdrop.
This webinar will distinguish these analytic deployment options and help you platform 2019 for success.
Agile & Data Modeling – How Can They Work Together?DATAVERSITY
A tenet of the Agile Manifesto is ‘Working software over comprehensive documentation’, and many have interpreted that to mean that data models are not necessary in the agile development environment. Others have seen the value of data models for achieving the other core tenets of ‘Customer Collaboration’ and ‘Responding to Change’.
This webinar will discuss how data models are being effectively used in today’s Agile development environment and the benefits that are being achieved from this approach.
DataEd Slides: Unlock Business Value Using Reference and Master Data Manageme...DATAVERSITY
Data tends to pile up and can be rendered unusable or obsolete without careful maintenance processes. Reference and Master Data Management (MDM) has been a popular Data Management approach to effectively gain mastery over not just the data but the supporting architecture for processing it from a master/transaction perspective. This webinar presents MDM as a strategic approach to improving and formalizing practices around those data items that provide context for organizational transactions – its master data. Too often, MDM has been implemented technology-first and achieved the same very poor track record (1/3 succeeding on-time, within budget, achieving planned functionality). MDM success depends on a coordinated approach involving typically Data Governance and Data Quality activities. Program learning objectives include:
• Understanding foundational reference and MDM concepts
• Why they are an important component of your Data Architecture
• Awareness of Reference and MDM Frameworks and building blocks
• What consists of MDM guiding principles and best practices
• How to utilize Reference and MDM in support of business strategy
DAS Slides: Data Modeling Case Study — Business Data Modeling at KiewitDATAVERSITY
Kiewit has been a leader in the construction industry since 1884. Key to the organization’s success is not only its focus on high quality engineering and its forward-thinking workforce, but its ability to manage complexity in a clear, concise, and data-driven way. As part of the organization’s strategic initiative to become even more data-driven in the way it estimates and manages projects, conceptual data models were built to create an overview of critical key data assets. Data architecture diagrams resonated well with key stakeholders who were well accustomed to driving success based on architectural diagrams, and these models were a key driver for the future data strategy for the organization. Join this webinar to learn more about Kiewit’s path to success through business-focused data models.
Data-Ed Online Webinar: Business Value from MDMDATAVERSITY
This presentation provides you with an understanding of the goals of reference and master data management (MDM), including establishing and implementing authoritative data sources, establishing and implementing more effective means of delivery data to various business processes, as well as increasing the quality of information used in organizational analytical functions (such as BI). You will understand the parallel importance of incorporating data quality engineering into the planning of reference and MDM.
Takeaways:
What is reference and MDM?
Why are reference and MDM important?
Reference and MDM Frameworks
Guiding principles & best practices
Data-Ed Online: Data Architecture RequirementsDATAVERSITY
Data architecture is foundational to an information-based operational environment. It is your data architecture that organizes your data assets so they can be leveraged in your business strategy to create real business value. Even though this is important, not all data architectures are used effectively. This webinar describes the use of data architecture as a basic analysis method. Various uses of data architecture to inform, clarify, understand, and resolve aspects of a variety of business problems will be demonstrated. As opposed to showing how to architect data, your presenter Dr. Peter Aiken will show how to use data architecting to solve business problems. The goal is for you to be able to envision a number of uses for data architectures that will raise the perceived utility of this analysis method in the eyes of the business.
Takeaways:
Understanding how to contribute to organizational challenges beyond traditional data architecting
How to utilize data architectures in support of business strategy
Understanding foundational data architecture concepts based on the DAMA DMBOK
Data architecture guiding principles & best practices
Data Integration is a key part of many of today’s data management challenges: from data warehousing, to MDM, to mergers & acquisitions. Issues can arise not only in trying to align technical formats from various databases and legacy systems, but in trying to achieve common business definitions and rules.
Join this webinar to see how a data model can help with both of these challenges – from ‘bottom-up’ technical integration, to the ‘top-down’ business alignment.
Data-Ed Online: Unlock Business Value through Reference & MDMDATAVERSITY
In order to succeed, organizations must realize what it means to utilize reference and MDM in support of business strategy. This presentation provides you with an understanding of the goals of reference and MDM, including the establishment and implementation of authoritative data sources, more effective means of delivering data to various business processes, as well as increasing the quality of information used in organizational analytical functions, e.g. BI. We also highlight the equal importance of incorporating data quality engineering into all efforts related to reference and master data management.
Learning objectives include:
What is Reference & MDM and why is it important?
Reference & MDM Frameworks and building blocks
Guiding principles & best practices
Understanding foundational reference & MDM concepts based on the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK)
Utilizing reference & MDM in support of business strategy
Data-Ed Online: Unlock Business Value through Document & Content ManagementDATAVERSITY
Organizations must realize what it means to utilize document and content management in support of business strategy. The volume of unstructured data is growing at an enormous pace. While we are still far away from automated content comprehension, increasingly sophisticated technologies are extending our business and data management capabilities into more critical and regulated areas. This presentation provides you with an understanding of the dimensions of these new developments, including electronic and physical document monitoring, storage systems, content analysis and archive, retrieve and purge cycling.
Learning objectives include:
What is Document & Content Management and why is it important?
Planning and Implementing Document & Content Management
Document/Record Management Lifecycle
Levels of Control
Content management building blocks
Guiding principles & best practices
Understanding foundational document & content management concepts based on the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK)
How to utilize document & content management in support of business strategy
Data-Ed Online Webinar: Data Architecture RequirementsDATAVERSITY
Data architecture is foundational to an information-based operational environment. It is data architecture that organizes data assets so they can be used in your business strategy to create real business value. Even though this is important, data architectures are still being used ineffectively. The various uses of data architecture are referenced to inform, clarify, understand, and resolve aspects of a variety of business problems commonly encountered in organizations. As opposed to showing how to architect data, your presenter Dr. Peter Aiken will show how to use data architecture to solve business problems. The goal is for you to be able to envision a number of uses for data architectures that will maximize your organization’s competitive advantage.
Takeaways:
•How to utilize data architecture to address a broad variety of organizational challenges and how to utilize data architectures in support of business strategy
•Understanding foundational data architecture concepts based on the DAMA DMBOK
•Data architecture guiding principles & best practices
Data-Ed Webinar: Data Modeling FundamentalsDATAVERSITY
Every organization produces and consumes data. Because data is so important to day to day operations, data trends are hitting the mainstream and businesses are adopting buzzwords such as Big Data, NoSQL, data scientist, etc., to seek solutions for their fundamental issues. Few realize that the importance of any solution, regardless of platform or technology, relies on the data model supporting it. Data modeling is not an optional task for an organization’s data effort. It is a vital activity that supports the solutions driving your business.
This webinar will address fundamental data modeling methodologies, as well as trends around the practice of data modeling itself. We will discuss abstract models and entity frameworks, as well as the general shift from data modeling being segmented to becoming more integrated with business practices.
Learning Objectives:
How are anchor modeling, data vault, etc. different and when should I apply them?
Integrating data models to business models and the value this creates
Application development (Data first, code first, object first)
DataEd Slides: Data Modeling is FundamentalDATAVERSITY
Because every organization produces and propagates data as part of their day-to-day operations, data trends are becoming more and more important in the mainstream business world’s consciousness. For many organizations in various industries, though, comprehension of this development begins and ends with buzzwords: “Big Data,” “NoSQL,” “Data Scientist,” and so on. Few realize that any and all solutions to their business problems, regardless of platform or relevant technology, rely to a critical extent on the data model supporting them. As such, Data Modeling is not an optional task for an organization’s data effort, but rather a vital activity that facilitates the solutions driving your business. Since quality engineering/architecture work products do not happen accidentally, the more your organization depends on automation, the more important are the data models driving the engineering and architecture activities of your organization. This webinar illustrates Data Modeling as a key activity upon which so much technology depends.
Organizations must realize what it means to utilize data quality management in support of business strategy. This webinar will illustrate how organizations with chronic business challenges often can trace the root of the problem to poor data quality. Showing how data quality should be engineered provides a useful framework in which to develop an effective approach. This in turn allows organizations to more quickly identify business problems as well as data problems caused by structural issues versus practice-oriented defects and prevent these from re-occurring.
Data-Ed Webinar: Data Quality EngineeringDATAVERSITY
Organizations must realize what it means to utilize data quality management in support of business strategy. This webinar will illustrate how organizations with chronic business challenges often can trace the root of the problem to poor data quality. Showing how data quality should be engineered provides a useful framework in which to develop an effective approach. This in turn allows organizations to more quickly identify business problems as well as data problems caused by structural issues versus practice-oriented defects and prevent these from re-occurring.
Takeaways:
Understanding foundational data quality concepts based on the DAMA DMBOK
Utilizing data quality engineering in support of business strategy
Data Quality guiding principles & best practices
Steps for improving data quality at your organization
Data-Ed Webinar: Data Architecture RequirementsDATAVERSITY
Data architecture is foundational to an information-based operational environment. It is your data architecture that organizes your data assets so they can be leveraged in your business strategy to create real business value. Even though this is important, not all data architectures are used effectively. This webinar describes the use of data architecture as a basic analysis method. Various uses of data architecture to inform, clarify, understand, and resolve aspects of a variety of business problems will be demonstrated. As opposed to showing how to architect data, your presenter Dr. Peter Aiken will show how to use data architecting to solve business problems. The goal is for you to be able to envision a number of uses for data architectures that will raise the perceived utility of this analysis method in the eyes of the business.
Takeaways:
Understanding how to contribute to organizational challenges beyond traditional data architecting
How to utilize data architectures in support of business strategy
Understanding foundational data architecture concepts based on the DAMA DMBOK
Data architecture guiding principles & best practices
Data architecture is foundational to an information-based operational environment. It is your data architecture that organizes your data assets so they can be leveraged in your business strategy to create real business value. Even though this is important, not all data architectures are used effectively. This webinar describes the use of data architecture as a basic analysis method. Various uses of data architecture to inform, clarify, understand, and resolve aspects of a variety of business problems will be demonstrated. As opposed to showing how to architect data, your presenter Dr. Peter Aiken will show how to use data architecting to solve business problems. The goal is for you to be able to envision a number of uses for data architectures that will raise the perceived utility of this analysis method in the eyes of the business.
Find out more: http://www.datablueprint.com/resource-center/webinar-schedule/
Data Architecture is foundational to an information-based operational environment. Without proper structure and efficiency in organization, data assets cannot be utilized to their full potential, which in turn harms bottom-line business value. When designed well and used effectively, however, a strong Data Architecture can be referenced to inform, clarify, understand, and resolve aspects of a variety of business problems commonly encountered in organizations.
The goal of this webinar is not to instruct you in being an outright Data Architect, but rather to enable you to envision a number of uses for Data Architectures that will maximize your organization’s competitive advantage. With that being said, we will:
Discuss Data Architecture’s guiding principles and best practices
Demonstrate how to utilize Data Architecture to address a broad variety of organizational challenges and support your overall business strategy
Illustrate how best to understand foundational Data Architecture concepts based on “The DAMA Guide to the Data Management Body of Knowledge” (DAMA DMBOK)
Because every organization produces and propagates data as part of their day-to-day operations, data trends are becoming more and more important in the mainstream business world’s consciousness. For many organizations in various industries, though, comprehension of this development begins and ends with buzzwords: “big data,” “NoSQL,” “data scientist,” and so on. Few realize that any and all solutions to their business problems, regardless of platform or relevant technology, rely to a critical extent on the data model supporting them. As such, Data Modeling is not an optional task for an organization’s data effort, but rather a vital activity that facilitates the solutions driving your business. Since quality engineering/architecture work products do not happen accidentally, the more your organization depends on automation, the more important the data models driving the engineering and architecture activities of your organization become. This webinar illustrates Data Modeling as a key activity upon which so much technology depends.
Data architecture is foundational to an information-based operational environment. It is your data architecture that organizes your data assets so they can be leveraged in your business strategy to create real business value. Even though this is important, not all data architectures are used effectively. This webinar describes the use of data architecture as a basic analysis method. Various uses of data architecture to inform, clarify, understand, and resolve aspects of a variety of business problems will be demonstrated. As opposed to showing how to architect data, your presenter Dr. Peter Aiken will show how to use data architecting to solve business problems. The goal is for you to be able to envision a number of uses for data architectures that will raise the perceived utility of this analysis method in the eyes of the business.
Find more Data-Ed webinars here: www.datablueprint.com
Data-Ed Webinar: The Seven Deadly Data Sins - Emerging from Management PurgatoryDATAVERSITY
While wrath and envy are best left for human resources to address, overcoming the numerous obstacles that often inhibit successful data management must be a full organizational effort. The difficulty of implementing a new data strategy often goes underappreciated, particularly the multi-faceted nature of the challenges that need to be met. Deficiencies in organizational readiness and core competence represent clearly visible problems faced by data managers, but beyond that there are several cultural and structural barriers common to virtually all organizations that must be eliminated in order to facilitate effective management of data.
In this webinar, we will discuss these barriers—the titular “Seven Deadly Data Sins”, and in the process will also:
Elaborate upon the three critical factors that lead to strategy failure
Demonstrate a two-stage data strategy implementation process
Explore the sources and rationales behind the “Seven Deadly Data Sins”, and recommend solutions and alternative approaches
Many are confused when it comes to data. Architecture, models, data - it can seem a bit overwhelming. This webinar offers a clear explanation of Data Modeling as the primary means of achieving better understanding of Data Architecture. Using a storytelling format, this webinar presents an organization approaching the daunting process of attempting to better leverage its data. The organization is currently not knowledgeable of these concepts and begins the process of understating its current state as well as a desired future state. We join as the organization takes steps to better understand what is has and what it needs to accomplish to employ Data Modeling and Architecture to achieve its mission.
DataEd Slides: Data Architecture versus Data ModelingDATAVERSITY
Data Modeling is how we do Data Architecture. Many are confused when it comes to data. Architecture, models, data – it can seem a bit overwhelming. This webinar offers a clear explanation of Data Modeling as the primary means of achieving better understanding of Data Architecture components. Using a storytelling format, this webinar presents an organization approaching the daunting process of attempting to better leverage its data. The organization is currently not knowledgeable of these concepts and begins the process of understating its current state as well as a desired future state. We join as the organization takes steps to better understand what is has, and what it needs to accomplish to employ Data Modeling and Data Architecture to achieve its mission.
Architecting Data For The Modern Enterprise - Data Summit 2017, Closing KeynoteCaserta
The “Big Data era” has ushered in an avalanche of new technologies and approaches for delivering information and insights to business users. What is the role of the cloud in your analytical environment? How can you make your migration as seamless as possible? This closing keynote, delivered by Joe Caserta, a prominent consultant who has helped many global enterprises adopt Big Data, provided the audience with the inside scoop needed to supplement data warehousing environments with data intelligence—the amalgamation of Big Data and business intelligence.
This presentation was given as the closing keynote at DBTA's annual Data Summit in NYC.
Building enterprise advance analytics platformHaoran Du
By Raymond Fu - Practice Architect
This lecture talks about the best practices in building an advanced analytics platform to help companies apply machine learning, deep learning and data science to their structured and unstructured data.
At Southern California Data Science Conference Sept.25.2016 at USC
http://socaldatascience.org/
http://www.datalaus.com/en/
Conceptual vs. Logical vs. Physical Data ModelingDATAVERSITY
A model is developed for a purpose. Understanding the strengths of each of the three Data Modeling types will prepare you with a more robust analyst toolkit. The program will describe modeling characteristics shared by each modeling type. Using the context of a reverse engineering exercise, delegates will be able to trace model components as they are used in a common data reengineering exercise that is also tied to a Data Governance exercise.
Learning objectives:
-Understanding the role played by models
-Differentiate appropriate use among conceptual, logical, and physical data models
- Understand the rigor of the round-trip data reengineering analyses
- Apply appropriate use of various Data Modeling types
Data Structures - The Cornerstone of Your Data’s HomeDATAVERSITY
To co-opt an old adage: “If data gets lost and no one knows where to find it, does it still take up hard-drive space?” In the interest of avoiding that unfortunate philosophical end, individual data structures enable sorting, storage, and organization of data so that it can be retrieved and used efficiently. Applying the correct data structure to different types of data—whether master, reference, or analytics—allows your organization to tailor its data management to fit its unique business needs.
In this webinar, we will:
Discuss the various data structures available and when to use each one, as well as different design styles for analytics
Illustrate how data structures should support your organizational data strategy
Demonstrate how each method can contribute to business value
DataEd Webinar: Reference & Master Data Management - Unlocking Business ValueDATAVERSITY
Data tends to pile up and can be rendered unusable or obsolete without careful maintenance processes. Reference and Master Data Management (MDM) has been a popular Data Management approach to effectively gain mastery over not just the data but the supporting architecture for processing it. This webinar presents MDM as a strategic approach to improving and formalizing practices around those data items that provide context for many organizational transactions—its master data. Too often, MDM has been implemented technology-first and achieved the same very poor track record (one-third succeeding on-time, within budget, and achieving planned functionality). MDM success depends on a coordinated approach typically involving Data Governance and Data Quality activities.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand foundational reference and MDM concepts based on the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK)
- Understand why these are an important component of your Data Architecture
- Gain awareness of Reference and MDM Frameworks and building blocks
- Know what MDM guiding principles consist of and best practices
- Know how to utilize reference and MDM in support of business strategy
Data-Ed Webinar: Design & Manage Data Structures DATAVERSITY
Data structures enable you to store and organize data so that it can be used efficiently. But how do you know to apply the correct one? There is a difference between structuring master data, reference data and analytics data. This webinar will discuss the various data structures available and when to use each one. We will show how data structures should support your organizational data strategy and how each method can contribute to business value.
Takeaways:
Application of correct data structures to fit business needs
How different structures create different business value
This is a slide deck that was assembled as a result of months of Project work at a Global Multinational. Collaboration with some incredibly smart people resulted in content that I wish I had come across prior to having to have assembled this.
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Architecture, Products, and Total Cost of Ownership of the Leading Machine Le...DATAVERSITY
Organizations today need a broad set of enterprise data cloud services with key data functionality to modernize applications and utilize machine learning. They need a comprehensive platform designed to address multi-faceted needs by offering multi-function data management and analytics to solve the enterprise’s most pressing data and analytic challenges in a streamlined fashion.
In this research-based session, I’ll discuss what the components are in multiple modern enterprise analytics stacks (i.e., dedicated compute, storage, data integration, streaming, etc.) and focus on total cost of ownership.
A complete machine learning infrastructure cost for the first modern use case at a midsize to large enterprise will be anywhere from $3 million to $22 million. Get this data point as you take the next steps on your journey into the highest spend and return item for most companies in the next several years.
Data at the Speed of Business with Data Mastering and GovernanceDATAVERSITY
Do you ever wonder how data-driven organizations fuel analytics, improve customer experience, and accelerate business productivity? They are successful by governing and mastering data effectively so they can get trusted data to those who need it faster. Efficient data discovery, mastering and democratization is critical for swiftly linking accurate data with business consumers. When business teams can quickly and easily locate, interpret, trust, and apply data assets to support sound business judgment, it takes less time to see value.
Join data mastering and data governance experts from Informatica—plus a real-world organization empowering trusted data for analytics—for a lively panel discussion. You’ll hear more about how a single cloud-native approach can help global businesses in any economy create more value—faster, more reliably, and with more confidence—by making data management and governance easier to implement.
What is data literacy? Which organizations, and which workers in those organizations, need to be data-literate? There are seemingly hundreds of definitions of data literacy, along with almost as many opinions about how to achieve it.
In a broader perspective, companies must consider whether data literacy is an isolated goal or one component of a broader learning strategy to address skill deficits. How does data literacy compare to other types of skills or “literacy” such as business acumen?
This session will position data literacy in the context of other worker skills as a framework for understanding how and where it fits and how to advocate for its importance.
Building a Data Strategy – Practical Steps for Aligning with Business GoalsDATAVERSITY
Developing a Data Strategy for your organization can seem like a daunting task – but it’s worth the effort. Getting your Data Strategy right can provide significant value, as data drives many of the key initiatives in today’s marketplace – from digital transformation, to marketing, to customer centricity, to population health, and more. This webinar will help demystify Data Strategy and its relationship to Data Architecture and will provide concrete, practical ways to get started.
Uncover how your business can save money and find new revenue streams.
Driving profitability is a top priority for companies globally, especially in uncertain economic times. It's imperative that companies reimagine growth strategies and improve process efficiencies to help cut costs and drive revenue – but how?
By leveraging data-driven strategies layered with artificial intelligence, companies can achieve untapped potential and help their businesses save money and drive profitability.
In this webinar, you'll learn:
- How your company can leverage data and AI to reduce spending and costs
- Ways you can monetize data and AI and uncover new growth strategies
- How different companies have implemented these strategies to achieve cost optimization benefits
Data Catalogs Are the Answer – What is the Question?DATAVERSITY
Organizations with governed metadata made available through their data catalog can answer questions their people have about the organization’s data. These organizations get more value from their data, protect their data better, gain improved ROI from data-centric projects and programs, and have more confidence in their most strategic data.
Join Bob Seiner for this lively webinar where he will talk about the value of a data catalog and how to build the use of the catalog into your stewards’ daily routines. Bob will share how the tool must be positioned for success and viewed as a must-have resource that is a steppingstone and catalyst to governed data across the organization.
Data Catalogs Are the Answer – What Is the Question?DATAVERSITY
Organizations with governed metadata made available through their data catalog can answer questions their people have about the organization’s data. These organizations get more value from their data, protect their data better, gain improved ROI from data-centric projects and programs, and have more confidence in their most strategic data.
Join Bob Seiner for this lively webinar where he will talk about the value of a data catalog and how to build the use of the catalog into your stewards’ daily routines. Bob will share how the tool must be positioned for success and viewed as a must-have resource that is a steppingstone and catalyst to governed data across the organization.
In this webinar, Bob will focus on:
-Selecting the appropriate metadata to govern
-The business and technical value of a data catalog
-Building the catalog into people’s routines
-Positioning the data catalog for success
-Questions the data catalog can answer
Because every organization produces and propagates data as part of their day-to-day operations, data trends are becoming more and more important in the mainstream business world’s consciousness. For many organizations in various industries, though, comprehension of this development begins and ends with buzzwords: “Big Data,” “NoSQL,” “Data Scientist,” and so on. Few realize that all solutions to their business problems, regardless of platform or relevant technology, rely to a critical extent on the data model supporting them. As such, data modeling is not an optional task for an organization’s data effort, but rather a vital activity that facilitates the solutions driving your business. Since quality engineering/architecture work products do not happen accidentally, the more your organization depends on automation, the more important the data models driving the engineering and architecture activities of your organization. This webinar illustrates data modeling as a key activity upon which so much technology and business investment depends.
Specific learning objectives include:
- Understanding what types of challenges require data modeling to be part of the solution
- How automation requires standardization on derivable via data modeling techniques
- Why only a working partnership between data and the business can produce useful outcomes
Analytics play a critical role in supporting strategic business initiatives. Despite the obvious value to analytic professionals of providing the analytics for these initiatives, many executives question the economic return of analytics as well as data lakes, machine learning, master data management, and the like.
Technology professionals need to calculate and present business value in terms business executives can understand. Unfortunately, most IT professionals lack the knowledge required to develop comprehensive cost-benefit analyses and return on investment (ROI) measurements.
This session provides a framework to help technology professionals research, measure, and present the economic value of a proposed or existing analytics initiative, no matter the form that the business benefit arises. The session will provide practical advice about how to calculate ROI and the formulas, and how to collect the necessary information.
How a Semantic Layer Makes Data Mesh Work at ScaleDATAVERSITY
Data Mesh is a trending approach to building a decentralized data architecture by leveraging a domain-oriented, self-service design. However, the pure definition of Data Mesh lacks a center of excellence or central data team and doesn’t address the need for a common approach for sharing data products across teams. The semantic layer is emerging as a key component to supporting a Hub and Spoke style of organizing data teams by introducing data model sharing, collaboration, and distributed ownership controls.
This session will explain how data teams can define common models and definitions with a semantic layer to decentralize analytics product creation using a Hub and Spoke architecture.
Attend this session to learn about:
- The role of a Data Mesh in the modern cloud architecture.
- How a semantic layer can serve as the binding agent to support decentralization.
- How to drive self service with consistency and control.
Enterprise data literacy. A worthy objective? Certainly! A realistic goal? That remains to be seen. As companies consider investing in data literacy education, questions arise about its value and purpose. While the destination – having a data-fluent workforce – is attractive, we wonder how (and if) we can get there.
Kicking off this webinar series, we begin with a panel discussion to explore the landscape of literacy, including expert positions and results from focus groups:
- why it matters,
- what it means,
- what gets in the way,
- who needs it (and how much they need),
- what companies believe it will accomplish.
In this engaging discussion about literacy, we will set the stage for future webinars to answer specific questions and feature successful literacy efforts.
The Data Trifecta – Privacy, Security & Governance Race from Reactivity to Re...DATAVERSITY
Change is hard, especially in response to negative stimuli or what is perceived as negative stimuli. So organizations need to reframe how they think about data privacy, security and governance, treating them as value centers to 1) ensure enterprise data can flow where it needs to, 2) prevent – not just react – to internal and external threats, and 3) comply with data privacy and security regulations.
Working together, these roles can accelerate faster access to approved, relevant and higher quality data – and that means more successful use cases, faster speed to insights, and better business outcomes. However, both new information and tools are required to make the shift from defense to offense, reducing data drama while increasing its value.
Join us for this panel discussion with experts in these fields as they discuss:
- Recent research about where data privacy, security and governance stand
- The most valuable enterprise data use cases
- The common obstacles to data value creation
- New approaches to data privacy, security and governance
- Their advice on how to shift from a reactive to resilient mindset/culture/organization
You’ll be educated, entertained and inspired by this panel and their expertise in using the data trifecta to innovate more often, operate more efficiently, and differentiate more strategically.
Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – What’s the Next Big Thing?DATAVERSITY
With technological innovation and change occurring at an ever-increasing rate, it’s hard to keep track of what’s hype and what can provide practical value for your organization. Join this webinar to see the results of a recent DATAVERSITY survey on emerging trends in Data Architecture, along with practical commentary and advice from industry expert Donna Burbank.
Data Governance Trends - A Look Backwards and ForwardsDATAVERSITY
As DATAVERSITY’s RWDG series hurdles into our 12th year, this webinar takes a quick look behind us, evaluates the present, and predicts the future of Data Governance. Based on webinar numbers, hot Data Governance topics have evolved over the years from policies and best practices, roles and tools, data catalogs and frameworks, to supporting data mesh and fabric, artificial intelligence, virtualization, literacy, and metadata governance.
Join Bob Seiner as he reflects on the past and what has and has not worked, while sharing examples of enterprise successes and struggles. In this webinar, Bob will challenge the audience to stay a step ahead by learning from the past and blazing a new trail into the future of Data Governance.
In this webinar, Bob will focus on:
- Data Governance’s past, present, and future
- How trials and tribulations evolve to success
- Leveraging lessons learned to improve productivity
- The great Data Governance tool explosion
- The future of Data Governance
Data Governance Trends and Best Practices To Implement TodayDATAVERSITY
Would you share your bank account information on social media? How about shouting your social security number on the New York City subway? We didn’t think so either – that’s why data governance is consistently top of mind.
In this webinar, we’ll discuss the common Cloud data governance best practices – and how to apply them today. Join us to uncover Google Cloud’s investment in data governance and learn practical and doable methods around key management and confidential computing. Hear real customer experiences and leave with insights that you can share with your team. Let’s get solving.
Topics that you will hear addressed in this webinar:
- Understanding the basics of Cloud Incident Response (IR) and anticipated data governance trends
- Best practices for key management and apply data governance to your day-to-day
- The next wave of Confidential Computing and how to get started, including a demo
It is a fascinating, explosive time for enterprise analytics.
It is from the position of analytics leadership that the enterprise mission will be executed and company leadership will emerge. The data professional is absolutely sitting on the performance of the company in this information economy and has an obligation to demonstrate the possibilities and originate the architecture, data, and projects that will deliver analytics. After all, no matter what business you’re in, you’re in the business of analytics.
The coming years will be full of big changes in enterprise analytics and data architecture. William will kick off the fifth year of the Advanced Analytics series with a discussion of the trends winning organizations should build into their plans, expectations, vision, and awareness now.
Too often I hear the question “Can you help me with our data strategy?” Unfortunately, for most, this is the wrong request because it focuses on the least valuable component: the data strategy itself. A more useful request is: “Can you help me apply data strategically?” Yes, at early maturity phases the process of developing strategic thinking about data is more important than the actual product! Trying to write a good (must less perfect) data strategy on the first attempt is generally not productive –particularly given the widespread acceptance of Mike Tyson’s truism: “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” This program refocuses efforts on learning how to iteratively improve the way data is strategically applied. This will permit data-based strategy components to keep up with agile, evolving organizational strategies. It also contributes to three primary organizational data goals. Learn how to improve the following:
- Your organization’s data
- The way your people use data
- The way your people use data to achieve your organizational strategy
This will help in ways never imagined. Data are your sole non-depletable, non-degradable, durable strategic assets, and they are pervasively shared across every organizational area. Addressing existing challenges programmatically includes overcoming necessary but insufficient prerequisites and developing a disciplined, repeatable means of improving business objectives. This process (based on the theory of constraints) is where the strategic data work really occurs as organizations identify prioritized areas where better assets, literacy, and support (data strategy components) can help an organization better achieve specific strategic objectives. Then the process becomes lather, rinse, and repeat. Several complementary concepts are also covered, including:
- A cohesive argument for why data strategy is necessary for effective data governance
- An overview of prerequisites for effective strategic use of data strategy, as well as common pitfalls
- A repeatable process for identifying and removing data constraints
- The importance of balancing business operation and innovation
Who Should Own Data Governance – IT or Business?DATAVERSITY
The question is asked all the time: “What part of the organization should own your Data Governance program?” The typical answers are “the business” and “IT (information technology).” Another answer to that question is “Yes.” The program must be owned and reside somewhere in the organization. You may ask yourself if there is a correct answer to the question.
Join this new RWDG webinar with Bob Seiner where Bob will answer the question that is the title of this webinar. Determining ownership of Data Governance is a vital first step. Figuring out the appropriate part of the organization to manage the program is an important second step. This webinar will help you address these questions and more.
In this session Bob will share:
- What is meant by “the business” when it comes to owning Data Governance
- Why some people say that Data Governance in IT is destined to fail
- Examples of IT positioned Data Governance success
- Considerations for answering the question in your organization
- The final answer to the question of who should own Data Governance
It is clear that Data Management best practices exist and so does a useful process for improving existing Data Management practices. The question arises: Since we understand the goal, how does one design a process for Data Management goal achievement? This program describes what must be done at the programmatic level to achieve better data use and a way to implement this as part of your data program. The approach combines DMBoK content and CMMI/DMM processes – permitting organizations with the opportunity to benefit from the best of both. It also permits organizations to understand:
- Their current Data Management practices
- Strengths that should be leveraged
- Remediation opportunities
MLOps – Applying DevOps to Competitive AdvantageDATAVERSITY
MLOps is a practice for collaboration between Data Science and operations to manage the production machine learning (ML) lifecycles. As an amalgamation of “machine learning” and “operations,” MLOps applies DevOps principles to ML delivery, enabling the delivery of ML-based innovation at scale to result in:
Faster time to market of ML-based solutions
More rapid rate of experimentation, driving innovation
Assurance of quality, trustworthiness, and ethical AI
MLOps is essential for scaling ML. Without it, enterprises risk struggling with costly overhead and stalled progress. Several vendors have emerged with offerings to support MLOps: the major offerings are Microsoft Azure ML and Google Vertex AI. We looked at these offerings from the perspective of enterprise features and time-to-value.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
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Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
AI for Every Business: Unlocking Your Product's Universal Potential by VP of ...
Data-Ed Slides: Data Modeling Strategies - Getting Your Data Ready for the Catwalk
1. Peter Aiken, Ph.D.
Data Modeling Strategies
Getting your data ready for the catwalk
• DAMA International President 2009-2013
• DAMA International Achievement Award 2001 (with
Dr. E. F. "Ted" Codd
• DAMA International Community Award 2005
Peter Aiken, Ph.D.
• 33+ years in data management
• Repeated international recognition
• Founder, Data Blueprint (datablueprint.com)
• Associate Professor of IS (vcu.edu)
• DAMA International (dama.org)
• 10 books and dozens of articles
• Experienced w/ 500+ data
management practices
• Multi-year immersions:
– US DoD (DISA/Army/Marines/DLA)
– Nokia
– Deutsche Bank
– Wells Fargo
– Walmart
– … PETER AIKEN WITH JUANITA BILLINGS
FOREWORD BY JOHN BOTTEGA
MONETIZING
DATA MANAGEMENT
Unlocking the Value in Your Organization’s
Most Important Asset.
The Case for the
Chief Data Officer
Recasting the C-Suite to Leverage
Your MostValuable Asset
Peter Aiken and
Michael Gorman
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• Data Management Overview
• Motivation
– Systems/components
– Pervasive, yet not well understood
• Why data modeling & what is it?
– Model represents our understanding
– of the fundamental and foundational aspects of the
system
• Strategies
– The power of the purpose statement
– Understanding how to contribute to organizational
challenges beyond traditional data modeling
– Guiding problem analyses using data analysis
– Using data modeling in conjunction with
architecture/engineering techniques
– How to utilize data modeling in support of business
strategy
• Take Aways, References & Q&A
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UsesUsesReuses
What is data management?
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Sources
Data
Engineering
Data
Delivery
Data
Storage
Specialized Team Skills
Data Governance
Understanding the current
and future data needs of an
enterprise and making that
data effective and efficient in
supporting
business activities
Aiken, P, Allen, M. D., Parker, B., Mattia, A.,
"Measuring Data Management's Maturity:
A Community's Self-Assessment"
IEEE Computer (research feature April 2007)
Data management practices connect
data sources and uses in an
organized and efficient manner
• Engineering
• Storage
• Delivery
• Governance
When executed,
engineering, storage, and
delivery implement governance
Note: does not well-depict data reuse
3.
What is data management?
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Sources
Data
Engineering
Data
Delivery
Data
Storage
Specialized Team Skills
Resources
(optimized for reuse)
Data Governance
AnalyticInsight
Specialized Team Skills
Data$Management$
Strategy
Data Management Goals
Corporate Culture
Data Management Funding
Data Requirements Lifecycle
Data
Governance
Governance Management
Business Glossary
Metadata Management
Data
Quality
Data Quality Framework
Data Quality Assurance
Data
Operations
Standards and Procedures
Data Sourcing
Platform$&$
Architecture
Architectural Framework
Platforms & Integration
Supporting$
Processes
Measurement & Analysis
Process Management
Process Quality Assurance
Risk Management
Configuration Management
Component Process$Areas
DMM℠ Structure of
5 Integrated
DM Practice Areas
Data architecture
implementation
Data
Governance
Data
Management
Strategy
Data
Operations
Platform
Architecture
Supporting
Processes
Maintain fit-for-purpose data,
efficiently and effectively
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Manage data coherently
Manage data assets professionally
Data life cycle
management
Organizational support
Data
Quality
4. Maslow's Hierarchiy of Needs
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You can accomplish
Advanced Data Practices
without becoming proficient
in the Foundational Data
Practices however
this will:
• Take longer
• Cost more
• Deliver less
• Present
greater
risk
(with thanks to
Tom DeMarco)
Data Management Practices Hierarchy
Advanced
Data
Practices
• MDM
• Mining
• Big Data
• Analytics
• Warehousing
• SOA
Foundational Data Practices
Data Platform/Architecture
Data Governance Data Quality
Data Operations
Data Management Strategy
Technologies
Capabilities
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system
• Strategies
– The power of the purpose statement
– Understanding how to contribute to organizational
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– Guiding problem analyses using data analysis
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Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action
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WHY
HOW
WHAT“…it’s not what you do,
it’s why you do it”
http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html
7. What is a system?
• A set of detailed methods, procedures, and routines established or
formulated to carry out a specific activity, perform a duty, or solve a problem.
• An organized, purposeful structure regarded as a whole and consisting of
interrelated and interdependent elements (components, entities, factors,
members, parts etc.). These elements continually influence one another
(directly or indirectly) to maintain their activity and the existence of the
system, in order to achieve the goal of the system.
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/system.html#ixzz23T7LyAjJ
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System
DataHardwareProcessesPeople Software
There will never
be less data
than right now!
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What do we teach IT professionals about data?
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• 1 course
– How to build a
new database
• What
impressions do IT
professionals get
from this
education?
– Data is a technical
skill that is needed
when developing
new databases
• If we are migrating databases, we are not creating new
databases and we don't need organizational data
management knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs).
• If we are implementing a new software package, we are
not creating a new database and therefore we do not
need data management KSAs.
• If we are installing an enterprise resource package
(ERP), we are not creating a new database and therefore
we do not need data management KSAs.
9. Why Modeling
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• Would you build a house without an
architecture sketch?
• Model is the sketch of the system to be
built in a project.
• Would you like to have an estimate how
much your new house is going to cost?
• Your model gives you a very good idea of
how demanding the implementation work
is going to be!
• If you hired a set of constructors from all
over the world to build your house, would
you like them to have a common
language?
• Model is the common language for the
project team.
• Would you like to verify the proposals of
the construction team before the work gets
started?
• Models can be reviewed before thousands
of hours of implementation work will be
done.
• If it was a great house, would you like to
build something rather similar again, in
another place?
• It is possible to implement the system to
various platforms using the same model.
• Would you drill into a wall of your house
without a map of the plumbing and electric
lines?
• Models document the system built in a
project. This makes life easier for the
support and maintenance!
Use Models to
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• Store and formalize information
• Filter out extraneous detail
• Define an essential set of
information
• Help understand complex system behavior
• Gain information from the process of developing and
interacting with the model
• Evaluate various scenarios or other outcomes indicated by
the model
• Monitor and predict system responses to changing
environmental conditions
10. • Goal must be shared IT/business understanding
– No disagreements = insufficient communication
• Data sharing/exchange is largely and highly automated and
thus dependent on successful engineering
– It is critical to engineer a sound foundation of data modeling basics
(the essence) on which to build advantageous data technologies
• Modeling characteristics change over the course of analysis
– Different model instances may be useful to different analytical problems
• Incorporate motivation (purpose statements) in all modeling
– Modeling is a problem defining as well as a problem solving activity - both are inherent to
architecture
• Use of modeling is much more important than selection of a specific modeling method
• Models are often living documents
– It easily adapts to change
• Models must have modern access/interface/search technologies
– Models need to be available in an easily searchable manner
• Utility is paramount
– Adding color and diagramming objects customizes models and allows for a more engaging and
enjoyable user review process
Data Modeling for Business Value
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Typical focus of a
database modeling effort
Data Modeling Ensures Interoperability
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Program F
Program E
Program D
Program G
Program H
Application
domain 2Application
domain 3
Program I
Typical focus of a
software engineering effort
Program A
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– Model represents our understanding
– of the fundamental and foundational aspects of the
system
• Strategies
– The power of the purpose statement
– Understanding how to contribute to organizational
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– Guiding problem analyses using data analysis
– Using data modeling in conjunction with
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– How to utilize data modeling in support of business
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• Models
– are usually for the
purpose of
understanding
• Can be
– Equations
– Simulations
including video games
– Physical models
– Mental models
Models as an Aid to Understanding
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14. What is a model?
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draw
critique
test
dialog
select
decide
filter
summarize
design
rank
review cluster
generate evaluate
list
visible to
participants
Structure for
organizing things
Framework for
decision making
Requires tools for problem solving and
decision making
Easy to review and
validate
graphic
text
Prototype and mockupFramework for understanding and design
Source: Ellen Gottesdiener www.ebgconsulting.com
As Is Information
Requirements
Assets
As Is Data Design Assets As Is Data Implementation
Assets
ExistingNew
Modeling in Various Contexts
O2 Recreate
Data Design
Reverse Engineering
Forward engineering
O5 Reconstitute
Requirements
O9
Reimplement
Data
To Be Data
Implementation
Assets
O8
Redesign
Data
O4
Recon-
stitute
Data
Design
O3 Recreate
Requirements
O6
Redesign
Data
To Be
Design
Assets
O7 Re-
develop
Require-
ments
To Be
Requirements
Assets
O1 Recreate Data
Implementation
Metadata
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Information Architecture Component Reengineering Options
O-1 data implementation (e.g., by recreating descriptions of implemented file layouts);
O-2 data designs (e.g., by recreating the logical system design layouts); or
O-3 information requirements (e.g., by recreating existing system specifications and
business rules).
O-4 data design assets by examining the existing data implementation (when
appropriate O-1 can facilitate O-4); and
O-5 system information requirements by reverse engineering the data design O-4.
(Note: if the data design doesn't exist O-4 must precede O-5.)
O-6 transforming as is data design assets, yielding improved to be data designs that
are based on reconstituted data design assets produced by O-2 or O-4 and
(possibly O-1);
O-7 transforming as is system requirements into to be system requirements that are
based on reconstituted system requirements produced by O-3 or O-5 and
(possibly O-2);
O-8 redesigning to be data design assets using the to be system requirements based
on reconstituted system requirements produced by O-7; and
O-9 re-implementing system data based on data redesigns produced by O-6 or O-8.
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Don’t Tell Them You Are Modeling!
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• Just write some stuff down
• Then arrange it
• Then make some appropriate
connections between your
objects
16. Bed
Entity: BED
Purpose: This is a substructure within the room
substructure of the facility location. It
contains information about beds within rooms.
Attributes: Bed.Description
Bed.Status
Bed.Sex.To.Be.Assigned
Bed.Reserve.Reason
Associations: >0-+ Room
Status: Validated
Keep them focused on data model purpose
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• The reason we are locked in
this room is to:
– Mission: Understand formal
relationship between soda and
customer
• Outcome: Walk out the door with a
data model this relationship
– Mission: Understand the
characteristics that differ
between our hospital beds
• Outcome: We will walk out the door
when we identify the top three traits that
represent the brand.
– Mission: Could our systems
handle the following business
rule tomorrow?
– "Is job-sharing permitted?"
• Outcomes: Confirm that it is possible to
staff a position with multiple employees
effective tomorrow
selects and pays forgiven to
Soda
Customer
selects
can be filled by zero or 1
Employee Position
has exactly 1
How does our
perspective change:
the primary means of
tracking a patient
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17. Entity Relationship View
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C U S T O M E R
coins
soda
machine
(adapted from [Davis 1990])
Entity Relationship View
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(adapted from [Davis 1990])
entity thing about which we maintain
information
object entity encapsulated with attributes
and functions
C U S T O M E R soda
machine
coin
return
deposits
selects
given to
dispenses
coins
18. Modeling In Support of Requirements
Person Job Class
Employee Position
BR1) Zero, one, or more
EMPLOYEES can be associated
with one PERSON
BR2) Zero, one, or more EMPLOYEES
can be associated with one POSITION
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Job Sharing
Moon Lighting
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20. ANSI-SPARK 3-Layer Schema
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For example, a changeover to a new
DBMS technology. The database
administrator should be able to change
the conceptual or global structure of the
database without affecting the users.
1. Conceptual - Allows independent
customized user views:
– Each should be able to access the same
data, but have a different customized
view of the data.
2. Logical - This hides the physical
storage details from users:
– Users should not have to deal with
physical database storage details. They
should be allowed to work with the data
itself, without concern for how it is
physically stored.
3. Physical - The database administrator
should be able to change the
database storage structures without
affecting the users’ views:
– Changes to the structure of an
organization's data will be required. The
internal structure of the database should
be unaffected by changes to the physical
aspects of the storage.
Conceptual Models
• Business
focused
• Entity level
• Provides focus,
scope, and
guidance to
modeling effort
• Sometimes
thrown away -
rarely maintained
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21. Logical Models
• Required to achieve the transition
from conceptual to physical
• Developed to the attribute level via
3rd normal form - to a define level
of understandability
• Logical models are developed to be
refined to until it becomes a
solution - sometimes purchased (as
in EDW) always requires tailoring
• Used to guarantee the rigor of the
data structures by formally describing the relationship between data
items in a strong fashion - more often maintained
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Physical Models
• Becomes the blueprints for
physical construction of the
solution
• Blueprints are used for future
maintenance of the solution
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Model Evolution (better explanation)
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As-is To-be
Technology
Independent/
Logical
Technology
Dependent/
Physical
abstraction
Other logical
as-is data
architecture
components
23. Model Evolution Framework
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Conceptual Logical Physical
Goal
Validated
Not Validated
Every change can
be mapped to a
transformation in
this framework!
Preliminary
activities
Modeling
cycles
Wrapup
activities
Evidence
collection &
analysis
Project
coordination
requirements
Target
system
analysis
Modeling
cycle
focus
Activity
Refinement
Collection
Analysis
Validation
Declining coordination requirements
Increasing amounts of targetsystem analysis
Preliminary
activities
Modeling
cycles
Wrapup
activities
Evidence
collection &
analysis
Project
coordination
requirements
Target
system
analysis
Modeling
cycle
focus
Activity
Refinement
Collection
Analysis
Validation
Declining coordination requirements
Increasing amounts of targetsystem analysis
Preliminary
activities
Modeling
cycles
Wrapup
activities
Evidence
collection &
analysis
Project
coordination
requirements
Target
system
analysis
Modeling
cycle
focus
Activity
Refinement
Collection
Analysis
Validation
Declining coordination requirements
Increasing amounts of targetsystem analysis
Preliminary
activities
Modeling
cycles
Wrapup
activities
Evidence
collection &
analysis
Project
coordination
requirements
Target
system
analysis
Modeling
cycle
focus
Activity
Refinement
Collection
Analysis
Validation
Declining coordination requirements
Increasing amounts of targetsystem analysis
Relative use of time allocated to tasks during Modeling
Preliminary
activities
Modeling
cycles
Wrapup
activities
Evidence
collection &
analysis
Project
coordination
requirements
Target
system
analysis
Modeling
cycle
focus
Activity
Refinement
Collection
Analysis
Validation
Declining coordination requirements
Increasing amounts of targetsystem analysis
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24. Standard definition reporting does not provide conceptual context
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Bed
Something you sleep in
Entity: BED
Data Asset Type: Principal Data Entity
Purpose: This is a substructure within the room
substructure of the facility location. It contains
information about beds within rooms.
Source: Maintenance Manual for File and Table
Data (Software Version 3.0, Release 3.1)
Attributes: Bed.Description
Bed.Status
Bed.Sex.To.Be.Assigned
Bed.Reserve.Reason
Associations: >0-+ Room
Status: Validated
The Power of the Purpose Statement
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• A purpose statement describing
why the organization is
maintaining information about
this business concept
• Sources of information about it
• A partial list of the attributes or
characteristics of the entity
• Associations with other data
items; this one is read as "One
room contains zero or many
beds"
25. 11
DISPOSITION Data Map
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Data map of DISPOSITION
• At least one but possibly more system USERS enter the DISPOSITION facts into the system.
• An ADMISSION is associated with one and only one DISCHARGE.
• An ADMISSION is associated with zero or more FACILITIES.
• An ADMISSION is associated with zero or more PROVIDERS.
• An ADMISSION is associated with one or more ENCOUNTERS.
• An ENCOUNTER may be recorded by a system USER.
• An ENCOUNTER may be associated with a PROVIDER.
• An ENCOUNTER may be associated with one or more DIAGNOSES.
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ADMISSION Contains information about patient admission
history related to one or more inpatient episodes
DIAGNOSIS Contains the International Disease Classification
(IDC) of code representation and/or description of a
patient's health related to an inpatient code
DISCHARGEA table of codes describing disposition types
available for an inpatient at a FACILITY
ENCOUNTER Tracking information related to inpatient
episodes
FACILITY File containing a list of all facilities in regional health
care system
PROVIDER Full name of a member of the FACILITY team
providing services to the patient
USER Any user with access to create, read, update, and
delete DISPOSITION data
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• Data Management Overview
• Motivation
– Systems/components
– Pervasive, yet not well understood
• Why data modeling & what is it?
– Model represents our understanding
– of the fundamental and foundational aspects of the
system
• Strategies
– The power of the purpose statement
– Understanding how to contribute to organizational
challenges beyond traditional data modeling
– Guiding problem analyses using data analysis
– Using data modeling in conjunction with
architecture/engineering techniques
– How to utilize data modeling in support of business
strategy
• Take Aways, References & Q&A
Data Modeling Strategies: Getting your data ready for the catwalk
How do Data Models Support Organizational Strategy?
• Consider the opposite question:
– Were your systems explicitly designed to
be integrated or otherwise work together?
– If not then what is the likelihood that they
will work well together?
– In all likelihood your organization is spending between 20-40% of its
IT budget compensating for poor data structure integration
– They cannot be helpful as long as their structure is unknown
• Two answers
– Achieving efficiency and effectiveness goals
– Providing organizational dexterity for rapid implementation
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27. Design Styles – 3NF
• A mathematical data design technique founded in the early 70s by E.F.
Codd.
• Organizes data in simple
rows and columns - Entities
• Creates connections
between the entities called
relationships to show how
the data is inter-related
• 3NF removes data
redundancies – a piece of
data is stored only once
• 3NF is based on mathematics, give the same facts to different
modelers; the models they produce should be very similar.
• Creates a visual (Entity Relation Diagram - ERD) which may be
understood by less technical personnel
• 3NF is the modeling style most popularly used for operationally focused
data stores.
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Design Styles – Dimensional
• Created and refined by Ralph
Kimball in the 80s.
• Organizes data in Facts
and Dimensions. Fact
tables record the events
(what) within the business domain
and the Dimension tables describe
who, when, how and where.
• The data design style was created to
exploit the capabilities of the relational database to retrieve
and report against large volumes of data.
• Dimensional modeling sacrifices storage efficiency for
analytical processing speed
• There are 2 variations to Dimensional Modeling: Star Schema
and Snowflake
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28. Design Styles – Data Vault
• One of the newer relational database modeling techniques
• Data Vault modeling was conceived in the 1990s by Dan
Linstedt
• Data Vault models are designed for central data
warehouses that store non-volatile, time-variant, atomic
data
• Relationships are defined through Link structures which
promote flexibility and extensibility
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Tweeting now:
#dataed
• Data Management Overview
• Motivation
– Systems/components
– Pervasive, yet not well understood
• Why data modeling & what is it?
– Model represents our understanding
– of the fundamental and foundational aspects of the
system
• Strategies
– The power of the purpose statement
– Understanding how to contribute to organizational
challenges beyond traditional data modeling
– Guiding problem analyses using data analysis
– Using data modeling in conjunction with
architecture/engineering techniques
– How to utilize data modeling in support of business
strategy
• Take Aways, References & Q&A
Data Modeling Strategies: Getting your data ready for the catwalk
29. Data Models Used to Support Strategy
• Flexible, adaptable data structures
• Cleaner, less complex code
• Ensure strategy effectiveness measurement
• Build in future capabilities
• Form/assess merger and acquisitions strategies
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Employee
Type
Employee
Sales
Person
Manager
Manager
Type
Staff
Manager
Line
Manager
Adapted from Clive Finkelstein Information Engineering Strategic Systems Development 1992
Mission and Purpose
• Develop, deliver and support products and services which
satisfy the needs of customers in markets
where we can achieve
a return on investment
at least 20% annually
within two years of
market entry
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30. Mission Model Analysis
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Identify Potential Goals
G1.Market Analysis
G2.Market Share
G3.Innovation
G4.Customer Satisfaction
G5.Product Quality
G6.Product Development
G7.Staff Productivity
G8.Asset Growth
G9.Profitability
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31. Mission Model Analysis
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Next Step
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Market
Market
Customer
Product
Need
Need
Customer
Product
Market
Need
ProductCustomer
Customer
Need
Market
Product
32. Subsequent Step for Business Value
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Market
Market
Performance
Product
Performance
Need
Customer
Performance
Need
Performance
ProductCustomer
Performance
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