Join us in Austin, Texas for all or part of this 5-day course, March 26-30, featuring two unique workshops from industry experts. William McKnight and Joe Caserta will lead a two-part course covering Master Data Management (MDM) and Agile Data Warehouse & ETL Design.

Early Bird Registration Discount! Register by January 31st and save $120 using code EARLYBIRD12.

The course is offered in two sections:

Part 1, March 26-27: Master Data Management, William McKnight

This two-day seminar provides a practical guide to implementing successful MDM from experience. It covers all the aspects of MDM, from justification to architecture to data management and project management.

You will learn:

• How MDM provides benefits to an organization and how to justify an MDM project 
• The various architectural styles of MDM 
• How to incorporate syndicated data to MDM
• What MDM provides for hierarchy management and data governance
• How to improve data quality in an MDM system
• How to go to market for an MDM tool 
• How to understand the workload given a tool and the requirements
• How to manage an MDM project
• All the roles and responsibilities on an MDM project
• How to manage the organizational change that occurs with MDM projects
• How some other companies effectively did MDM

Register now or check out the MDM Course Overview and Outline.

Part 2, March 28-30: Agile Data Warehouse & ETL Design, Joe Caserta

This three-day session offers dimensional modeling techniques and the practical detailed steps of the data warehouse ETL system including extracting, cleaning, conforming, and delivering data and its associated metadata.

You will learn:

• To lead rapid data warehouse design sessions
• Translate data analysis requirements into efficient, flexible dimensional models
• To maximize the usability and performance of their data warehouse designs
• Practical steps of data warehouse ETL including extracting, cleaning, conforming, and delivering data and its associated metadata
• Design and development, architecture, operations and management aspects of scheduled and real-time ETL
• The steps, and sub-steps, required to successfully obtain, prepare and publish data in a dimensional data warehouse

In addition to the course material all students will receive a copy of Ralph Kimball and Joe Caserta's book, The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit, and Agile Data Warehouse Design by Lawrence Corr & Jim Stagnitto.

Register now or check out the Agile DW & ETL Design Course Overview and Outline.

DETAILS:
March 26-30, 2012
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. daily

LOCATION:
Palmer Events Center
900 Barton Spring Road
Austin, Texas 78704

Nearby Hotels:
Embassy Suites
Hyatt
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