Description
Data modeling provides a vehicle for users and information professionals throughout the organization to work together to clearly and consistently articulate business rules and requirements. Building data models allows an organization to identify the important data needed for business purposes, without regard to a specific application or implementation. Application data models should follow an integrated approach to information architecture and data model development that leads to stable, flexible, and reusable database designs, and to the eventual creation of an enterprise data model.
This course is designed to teach students how to model the data needed by the enterprise and for applications. This interactive course provides a combination of lecture and small workshop exercises using a continuing case study that allows the student to grasp and practice the concepts of data modeling. It blends basic data modeling activities and concepts with the enterprise view of business data needs. It can be presented using a particular modeling tool or can be taught independent of any modeling tool.
This course is workshop-focused since design concepts are best learned through practice. The workshops are oriented to solving problems in participants’ current projects. These exercises allow participants to learn how the concepts are applied and how to develop skills in data modeling from conceptual to logical to physical.
Additionally, the organization’s chosen data modeling tool can be incorporated into the exercises, and training in tool usage can be added to this course.
