DATE: February 23, 2017 This webinar has passed. The recording will be made available On Demand within two US business days. TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Business Intelligence (BI) is a valuable way to use information to show the […]
Mar 23 LDM Webinar: Conceptual Data Models – How to Get the Attention of Business Users (for a Technical Audience)
DATE: March 23, 2017 This webinar has passed. The recording is available On Demand. TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Achieving a ‘single version of the truth’ is critical to any MDM, DW, or data integration initiative. But have you […]
IDERA Drives Business-Driven Data Architecture
Today’s enterprise IT environment most likely consists of a plethora of different database platforms, all of which must be supported across the lifecycle. How to streamline managing every aspect of the multi-platform database ecosystem? IDERA’s answer is to let it help out. Its acquisition last fall of Embarcadero Technologies’ ER/Studio Data Architecture solution and DB […]
Data Warehouse Model: Diffuse Relationships
Click here to learn more about author Michael Blaha. A diffuse relationship is one of a group of similar relationships, which broadly apply to entities in a model. We can show them explicitly, but such an approach can become verbose and obscure the deeper content of a model. We coined the term “diffuse relationship” as […]
Data Modeling: Why Not 3D?
Click here to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Data Models are meant to communicate structure of information to recipients, who need to understand it. But who are these recipients? In fact, they are human beings. Given that, we should choose our means of communication to be the most effective that we can find. Other […]
Apr 11 Data-Ed Webinar: Data Modeling Strategies – Getting Your Data Ready for the Catwalk
DATE: April 11, 2017 This webinar has passed. The recording is available On Demand. TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Because every organization produces and propagates data as part of their day-to-day operations, data trends are becoming more and more important in the mainstream business […]
Apr 27 LDM Webinar: The Evolving Role of the Data Architect – What Does It Mean for Your Career?
DATE: April 27, 2017 This webinar has passed. The On Demand recording will be made available within two US business days. TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar If you’re a data architect, you’ve heard it all—from ‘data management is the sexiest job of the 21st […]
May 9 Data-Ed Webinar: Implementing the Data Management Maturity Model (DMM) – Within, Without, With-Shake-It-All-About
DATE: May 9, 2017 This webinar has passed. The recording will be made available On Demand within two US business days. TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar The Data Management Maturity (DMM) model is a framework for the evaluation and assessment of an organization’s data […]
Beware of Symmetric Relationships
Click to learn more about author Michael Blaha. A symmetric relationship is a self-relationship with the same multiplicity and role name on each end. Symmetric relationships are acceptable for conceptual models. But they are problematic for logical and physical models – you should rework the model to eliminate them. An Example For an example, consider […]
May 25 LDM Webinar: Data Modeling & Metadata Management
DATE: May 25, 2017 This webinar has passed. The recording will be made available On Demand within two US Business days. TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Metadata management is critical for organizations looking to understand the context, definition and lineage of key data assets. […]