Data Architecture

Course review:

The data architect defines a business driven vision for data supported by policies, principles and guidelines and underpinned with aligned data management and data governance.

In an economic recession there are increased pressures to reduce IT costs. CIO’s are looking to reduce cost while at the same time increasing operational efficiency and competitive advantage. Architecture skills and specifically data architecture will become of greater importance as companies become more global to combat the economic downturn. This will lead to increased demand for improvements and efficiency gains in the data assets of the organisation.

The course covers subjects such as:

• What is a data architect?
• Data oriented languages
• Corporate data modelling
• Conceptual, Logical and Physical data models
• The different classifications of data
• Information Architecture
• Glossary, Taxonomy and data dictionaries
• Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing
• Data Governance
• Data Legislation
• Data Standardisation
• Master Data Management
• Data Quality