Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Calendar of June Events

Register today for your activities during this week  & now more in the Month of June...  Select the CDVDM Data Vault Certification Seminar, Data Vault Re-Connect & Re-Certification Day, Advanced Data Vault, and the main event - ADWING - Agile Data Warehousing Conference.

June 10-11  Certified Data Vault Data Modeler CDVDM

With special event-filled month, great pricing and extra activities, this is the time for you to take your data vault certification.  Join us during Data Vault June 2013 for your certification and join us as our guest two weeks later for the ADWING Conference.

The newly redesigned CDVDM course is now in it's 6th year with over 600 satisfied participants.  The course includes two (2) weeks of online on-demand video lessons and then a two (2) day classroom course with lectures, labs and group exercises.  The certification exam itself is a 2.5 hour exam including select-style questions, short answer and a modeling component.  Approximately 84% of students score at the mastery level for certification.  For more information on the CDVDM course click here.

Register for this CDVDM course here.  

June 24      Data Vault Day *New

For those people who are interested in working with data vault, or currently working on a data vault project, this complete one (1) day course is a perfect beginning.  With full coverage of the core fundamentals of data vault, the modeling technique, how to apply data vault in your DWBI program, how to approach modeling your agile DW using data vault from a complete team perspective (business-view, requirements, analysis, design, modeling and architecture).  With 12 video lessons to prepare and a full day of lecture, materials and an interactive modeling lab, this course is perfect for the entire team. 

June 25      Data Vault Model Reviews

Join us for standard industry-specific model reviews - a total of four (4) model reviews during the day.  These sessions speak to specific modeling challenges in the various sectors of Finance (Banking & Insurance), Telco, Retail and Manufacturing.  Bring your own: Submit your model for a 90 minute review by our panel.

June 26      Data Vault Re-Connect & Re-Certification Day

For all of those certified over the years this is the primary re-certification event for 2013.  Recap the core fundamentals and learn about all the new developments and best practices.  Take this time to meet and share experiences with other certified data vault practitioners.

Over the years we have tightened the definitions of the core concepts of Hubs, Links and Satellites.  And also learned how to better define the data vault unit of work, how to design effective links, how to align data vault DW models with reference models, information models and taxonomies, and how to use data vault with operational integration deployments.

This course includes course materials, a new data vault guide book, and a re-certification exam for a special price of 495,-euro.  Register today here.

June 27     ADWING Agile Data Warehousing Conference  ADWING Site

This conference includes international speakers, current topics and a dive into EDW modeling ideas with Data Vault, Big Data, Semantic Models, and Ensemble approaches.  Join us for this now full day event on Thursday.

Click here to register for the conference.

June 27-28  Advanced Data Vault Course

Beginning with selected sessions from the Ensemble Modeling Conference, join us for a deep dive into real data vault topics with the brand new Branch Case.  This advances course covers a dozen advanced topics and techniques through a unifying case.  Look to learn more about unit of work considerations, business key clashes, business key redundancy in the enterprise, advanced link design, the data warehouse program alignment with reference models, information models and taxonomies, using data vault modeling with operational integration deployments, the application of data vault with generic, abstracted, unstructured and name-value pair scenarios, and many more topics.

Click here to register for this course.