Data Vault Seminar with Dan Linstedt23rd, 24th & 25th of June 2008
Unique Opportunity
We offer you the unique possibility to learn from the founding father of Data Vault, Dan Linstedt himself. As a result of a unique partnership with Genesee Academy, DNV Academy is now able to offer this 3-day course in the Netherlands.
Aligning IT and business
Data Vault gives you the ability to adapt quickly, model the business accurately and scale with the business needs – aligning IT and the business to meet the corporate goals. The Data Vault is a data integration architecture; a series of standards and definitional elements or methods through which information is connected within an RDBMS data store in order to make sense of it.
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 Hands-on experience
This 3-day course gives you hands-on experience with Data Vault Modeling. The programme covers both the business and technical details of the Data Vault modeling architecture.
Certification exam
On Day 4, you will have the option to take the Data Vault Certification Exam, which allows you to finish this course with a tangible result.
Business and technical perspective
The course starts with exploring the Data Vault modeling concepts from the business perspective: from why they exist and what needs they serve to their impact on the business. We discuss the benefits, issues and business applicability of using the Data Vault Data Modeling techniques. The technical part of the course covers topics such as Hubs, Links and Satellites along with loading and querying.
In-depth
We provide in-depth information around the do's and don'ts (best practices) of Data Vaults. The primary purpose of this course is to prepare you for certification in Data Vault Modeling. We discuss the technical details of Data Vaults including business rules, delta detection, date stamping, staging, point-in-time tables and querying (converting data from the Vault into star schemas or report collections).
Target Audience
Enterprise Architects, Data Warehouse architects, designers, data modelers, data integration (e.g. ETL) consultants and developers, Business Intelligence architects, Report Designers, Database Architects and Database Administrators involved in data warehouse environments.
English Spoken
All course materials are written in English. The presentations will also be held in English. Two of the workshop facilitators also speak Dutch.
Lab Work
The lab work is dispersed among the course topics, and includes developing a Data Vault data model (in teams), finding errors in the models and defining elements for use in the Data Vault structures. |
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Day 1: Foundational Concepts Business & Technology
- Business Concepts of Data Vault
- Hubs and Lab on Hub Discovery
- Links and Lab on Link Discovery
Day 2: Key Structures, Elements in Tables, Common Table Structures
- Satellites and Labs on Satellite Discovery
- Point-in-Time Tables, Bridge Tables, User Defined and Record Sources
- User Grouping Sets
- EDW Processing
- Conversion to a Data Vault
Day 3: Loading and Querying Processes within a Data Vault
- Golden Rules, Loading Constructs, Mathematics behind the Load Cycles
- Loading Data Delivery Mechanisms
Day 4: Data Vault Certification Exam
On Day 4, you will have the option to take the Data Vault Certification Exam. With this certification you will have a tangible result of this course.
More detailed programme
Here you can download a more detailed programme of the seminar. |
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Daniel E. Linstedt
Daniel E. Linstedt is an internationally known expert in data warehousing, business intelligence, analytics, very large data warehousing (VLDW), OLTP and performance and tuning. He has been the lead technical architect on enterprise-wide data warehouse projects and refinements for many Fortune 500 companies. Linstedt is an instructor of The Data Warehousing Institute and a featured speaker at industry events. He is a Certified DW2.0 Architect.
Expert training
He has worked with companies including IBM, Informatica, Ipedo, X-Aware, Netezza, Microsoft, Oracle, Silver Creek Systems and Teradata. He is trained in SEI / CMMI Level 5 and is the inventor of The Matrix Methodology and the Data Vault Data modeling architecture. He has built expert training courses, trained hundreds of industry professionals and hosts a blog.
Academic Advisory Board
He is a founding member of the Academic Advisory Board for post-graduate degrees at the Daniels School of Business, University of Denver. He has written and published articles for B-Eye Network, TDAN.com, Cutter Consortium, BillInmon.com, TDWI-FlashPoint and Teradata Magazine. He is also a member of the Rockies Venture Club. For more information look at www.geneseeacademy.com
Lab Work Facilitator: Kasper de Graaf
Kasper is the lead teacher for the Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence courses at DNV Academy. He has been working for DNV since 1996 both as a consultant and teacher.
Kasper is specialised in data warehousing, business intelligence, metadata management, modeling for data warehousing and portals and internet technology.
As a consultant he has been involved in many data warehouse and business intelligence projects for clients such as Oxxio, Univé, Amicon, Fujitsu Components, PGGM, NOC*NSF and energieclearingHouse.
His motto is: "Always strive for a single version of the truth, without it all your data warehouse and business intelligence efforts are useless".
Click here for more information on the consulting services of DNV .
Lab Work Facilitator: Ronald Damhof
Ronald is an architect in information management, focusing on (enterprise) data warehousing and its relation to enterprise architecture.
Ronald has acquired over 13 years of valuable experience, working for Albert Heijn and various consulting firms, always in the field of data warehousing and business intelligence. He has started working as an independent consultant since 2007, working for a wide range of clients.
Ronald is also a freelance teacher at DNV Academy. He is the lead teacher for the advanced course Data Warehousing In-Depth.
Ronald is not a 'white paper' architect. "Put your money where your mouth is" is his motto. He likes to see architectures 'live' in enterprises and not just write about them.
For more information go to www.prudenza.nl.
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Location
The seminar will be held at Buitenplaats Amerongen, Drostestraat 12 in Amerongen. Please visit www.buitenplaatsamerongen.nl for directions.
Date & Time
- Data Vault Seminar: 23rd, 24th & 25th of June
Time 9:30 - 17:00 - Optional Data Vault Certification Exam: 26th of June
Time 9:30 - 12:30 - Optional (free of cost) Demo RapidACE: 26th of June
Time 13:30 – 17:30
Costs & Registration
3 Day Data Vault seminar, excluding the exam: € 2.250,-
3 Day Data Vault seminar, including the exam: € 2.950,-
All costs include study materials, coffee, tea and lunch and are free of VAT.
You can register here.
More information
Do you have any questions or do you want more information? Please contact our account manager Maartje Mikx through e-mail or telephone 030-2308989. |
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