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“Enterprise Data Integration & Master Data Management” by Mike Ferguson, 26-27 November 2007, London

Attendees to this 2 day seminar will learn how to set up an enterprise data management program and to determine what technologies they need for enterprise data management, data integration and master data management (MDM). In addition they will learn when to use certain technologies over others and methodologies for metadata management, data governance, and designing and implementing data integration and MDM solutions.  This seminar is intended for business and IT professionals responsible for enterprise data management including metadata management, data integration, data quality, master data management and enterprise content management. Click here for an outline of the seminar.

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The following courses have been endorsed by DAMA UK. If you are interested in participating in any of the courses or would like more information, please click on the links.

Name of event: Data Management in Plain English

This one-day seminar for managers and non-specialists is designed to unravel some of the mystery surrounding data management.

Every organisation needs to understand and manage its information and data as a valuable corporate asset.  Every organisation has three key resources - people, assets and information.  Yet all too often the management of data and information is the Cinderella of the organisation and scant attention is paid to this key area.

Where projects are allowed to develop databases without reference to common and consistent data standards, information provision becomes increasingly difficult and applications continue to generate data problems for the future, with today’s applications become tomorrow’s legacy systems!

A well considered data management function provides the underpinning to application development and information provision. Applications can use data with confidence; users obtain the information they want in the knowledge that it is based on correct underlying data; and confidence grows. The aims, objectives and techniques of data management are often misunderstood.

Dates: 31 January 2008, 24 April 2008, 24 July 2008, 23 October 2008.  Also available as an in-house course.

Organiser: Stehle Associates

Contact: Tel: 020 7917 9943   Fax: 020 7917 9944

E-mail: david@stehle.co.uk

website: www.stehle.co.uk

Name of event: Principles of Data Management

This four-day course prepares candidates to sit the examination for the Certificate in Data Management Essentials, which can be counted towards the Information Systems Examination Board (ISEB) Business Systems Development (BSD) Diploma in Data Management.

This course and the examination is appropriate for Data Management practitioners, IT/IS managers and business managers.

The course covers:

w        The role and authority of a Data Management function.

w        Data Architecture concepts.

w        Project-level and corporate data modelling.

w        Data quality, naming, replication, integrity, security and recovery.

w        Database Administration, including physical data design, DBMS selection, managing the dbms, and performance measurement and tuning.

w        Industry trends and their effects on Data Management, including packaged software, distributed DBMS issues, data warehousing, OLAP and data mining systems, multi-media systems, internet and intranet-based systems, and object orientation.

The examination for the ISEB Business Systems Development Certificate in Data Management Essentials is taken on the last afternoon of the course.

Dates: 21-24 January 2008, 14-17 April 2008, 14-17 July 2008, 13-16 October 2008.  Also available as an in-house course.

Organiser: Stehle Associates

Contact: Tel: 020 7917 9943   Fax: 020 7917 9944

E-mail: david@stehle.co.uk

website: www.stehle.co.uk

Name of event: Data Modelling

This two-day course is designed to provide delegates with the key techniques of data modelling and data analysis that allow developers to satisfy the business information needs.  Most importantly it provides experience-based advice and guidance on how to use them.  Delegates acquire the skills necessary to define data needs and to develop a first cut relational database design that will meet system requirements.  This course is aimed at analysts and designers, analyst programmers, database administrators and business staff involved with defining system requirements.

Date: Available as an in-house course.

Organiser: Stehle Associates

Contact: Tel: 020 7917 9943   Fax: 020 7917 9944

E-mail: david@stehle.co.uk

website: www.stehle.co.uk

Name of event: Corporate Data Modelling

This two-day course is designed to provide a clear understanding of the pitfalls likely to be encountered when developing a corporate data model, along with strategies which can be used to overcome the problems.  This course assumes a basic knowledge of data modelling techniques and the role of a data administration function.  It is suitable for data managers and data administrators, business and data analysts and repository administrators.

Date: Available as an in-house course.

Organiser: Stehle Associates

Contact: Tel: 020 7917 9943   Fax: 020 7917 9944

E-mail: david@stehle.co.uk

website: www.stehle.co.uk

IRM UK Seminars    

IRM UK's Business & Systems Analysis seminars will be commencing shortly, starting with one of our most popular and longest running seminar, Mastering the Requirements Process.

Mastering the Requirements Process
Suzanne Robertson
25-27 February 2008, London

Learning Objectives:

	Determine your client's needs-exactly
	Write requirements that are complete, traceable, and testable
	Precisely define the scope of the project
	Discover all the stakeholders-and keep them involved
	Use up-to-date techniques such as storyboarding and e-collaboration
	Get the requirements quickly, and incrementally
	Make use of the popular Volere Requirements template, process and techniques for discovering requirements

"One of the best!"
Helena Bone, Senior Business Analyst, HBOS General Insurance

"Lively, knowledgeable, articulate - absolutely excellent."
Steve Coe, Requirements & Testing Manager, Department of Work & Pensions

"The flow followed that of the requirements process, was easy to
relate to and follow."
Tom Jacobs, Business Analyst, Lloyds TSB

Mastering the Requirements Process Part 2
Take your requirements skills to the next level
Suzanne Robertson
14-15 April 2008, London

Learning Objectives:

	Building a requirements knowledge model for communication and traceability
	Using your requirements deliverables as input to project management
	Being agile - choosing the level of requirements you need for fast results
	Assessing off the shelf (OTS) software using requirements techniques
	Exploiting requirements deliverables for risk management and cost estimation
	Integrating creative requirements practices for innovative products
	Maximising the value of your requirements investment
	Taking advantage of requirements practices to enable change
	Matching project success indicators and good requirements practices
	Learn the Volere Requirements Management
	Techniques for meeting your potential for agility

	Understand what's new in BPM practices and how these may work for you strategically
	Be able to apply enterprise and process level techniques that are practical
	How to set up an internal pragmatic BPM Centre of Expertise
	Learn how to sell the Enterprise BPM value proposition and gain cross-organization acceptance
	Be able to develop a process architecture that is the foundation for planning, budgeting, organization design, compliance, change management, SOA and the introduction of breakthrough BPMS technologies
	See how to institute day-today process management and governance for continued progress

	The importance of properly managing the "people" aspect of process redesign
	Critical Success Factors for process improvement
	Practical process modeling and analysis and design techniques
	How to avoid creeping project scope and analysis paralysis
	The recommended tools currently available
	Tips and Techniques for avoiding common pitfalls in process improvement projects

	Achieving business adaptability through business rules
	Business rule tools and technology
	Business rule methodologies
	Fitting business rules into your project environment ... and into your organization
	How to organize and manage your business rules
	Roles and responsibilities
	Pitfalls, lessons learned and best practices
	The latest trends
	Establishing rule and decision management
	Rethinking governance and compliance

	Series and Group Booking Discounts available
	All public seminars are also available on-site - please contact us with your requirements