How to Model Business Data from the Business Perspective

Workshop: How to Model and Analyze Business System Data

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Overview

Data represents the atomic level of today’s information systems. Data is the building blocks upon which everything else depends. In a very real sense if you get the data right, the rest will follow. If you get the data wrong, the system may never recover. This workshop is designed to give you a time-proven set of techniques, methods, and tricks to help you acquire, understand, document, and model business data from both a business and technical perspective.

Outline

  • Data Model Diagrams
  • Data Model Diagramming Symbols
  • Data Model Diagrams Alternative Graphic Conventions
  • Data Model Diagrams Additional Information
  • Data Model Diagram for Project Resources
  • Data Model Evolution
  • Levels of Data Models
  • Defining Entities
  • Data Model Diagram for Education Department
  • For Your Data Model
  • An Employee Training Data Model
  • Data Models vs. Databases
  • Summary


Objectives
  • Draw data model diagrams
  • Construct a data model based on existing system documentation
  • Place attributes into the appropriate entity
  • Define attribute’s characteristics (sometimes called metadata)
  • Create a data model from business requirements

 

Our vision of a virtual workshop is web-based training that is highly interactive. We absolutely avoid the death by page-turning and the passive learning approach that is highly prevalent in most web-based training.

3.5 hours

Target Audience

Business Analysts
Business Process Owners
Data Administrators
Data Analysts
Requirements Definition Specialists
System Analysts
Test Engineers
Anyone charged with managing, understanding and/or improving information use.