Data-Ed Online

My company, Data Blueprint, offers a number of educational services.  Our latest offering includes a series of educational webinars focused on data management topics.  Sessions are taught by me and take place on the second Tuesday of every month from 1:00 PM until 2:30 PM EST.  Participants will be able to register in advance and receive information to sign on for the presentations. Check out our training schedule below! 

Target audience:
Individuals within both IT and business, who are responsible for contributing, managing, accessing, and improving data will benefit from Data-Ed Online.  Participants will receive continuing education credit for participation, as well as valuable and relevant information to better manage data.  They will be able to view our various presentations and actively participate in the Q&A session from any computer with internet access. 

Schedule of Classes:

Managing Non-tabular Data:  Document & Content Management
September 14, 2010 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST
This presentation provides an understanding of the increasing role that non-tabular data plays in organizations.  While we are still far away from automated content comprehension, increasingly sophisticated technologies are extending our data management capabilities into more critical and more regulated areas.  Participants will understand dimensions of this vast new area including:  electronic and physical document monitoring; storage systems; content analysis; and archive, retrieve and purge cycling. 
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Meta-Data Management
October 12, 2010 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST
This presentation will describe how data management can be enhanced using meta-processing.  Commonly described as metadata management, properly implemented meta-data management can be accomplished incorporating intelligence into abstraction layer processing.  By using data about the data to enhance its value, its understandability, its ease of use, and many other options – organizations have developed sophisticated way to enhance their data management and especially their organizations data quality engineering efforts.  Understanding how can learn metadata use best is guided by overall practice maturity and provides a useful meta-data processing improvement framework. 
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Data Quality Engineering
November 9, 2010 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST
This presentation provides guidance to organizations considering data quality initiatives or preparing for data quality initiatives.  This talk will illustrate how organizations with chronic business challenges often can trace the root of the problem to poor data quality.  Showing how data quality can be engineered provides a useful framework in which to develop an organizational approach.  This in turn will allow organizations to more quickly identify data problems caused by structural issues versus practice-oriented defects.  Participants will also learn the importance of practicing data quality engineering quantification.
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Data Management Technologies
December 14, 2010 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST
The presentation provides an overview of the many types and classes of useful technology available to data managers.  These include:  computer aided software/systems engineering (CASE) tools; repositories; profiling/discovery tools; data quality engineering technologies; and data integration servers.
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Professional Development: Business Value of Data and ROI
January 11, 2011 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST
As organizations understand poor data management practices as the root cause of many of their problems, they become more willing to make the required investments in our profession.  This talk illustrates how to identify the costs of poor data management using specific examples.  Failure to successfully monetize investments in data management sets up an unfortunate loop fixing symptoms but not addressing the underlying problems.
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