Data Integration Education and Certification now available from MDM

Apr 28th, 2016

Gary Allemann, MD at Master Data Management

Data Integration (DI) is a core information management capability that provides the foundation for enterprise-wide views of consistent, connected, and trusted business information. The results of DI surround us, enabling highly valuable business activities in our organisations. Yet, we don’t always look past those activities to see DI as the indispensable, behind-the-scenes enabler that it is.

The alternative to DI is data disparity which leads to miscommunication, misunderstanding, confusion, uncertainty, and misinformed business decisions and actions.

DI is important, but it is also complex and challenging. The variety of reasons for DI may include data warehousing, master data management, data migration, and more.  Big data increases the scope of data sources (enterprise data, external data, social data, Internet of Things (IoT), web data, etc.). This in turn has resulted in the growth in data integration vendors, techniques and technologies (ETL, ELT, federation, virtualisation, etc.) which ultimately all contribute to data integration complexities.

Says Gary Allemann, MD at Master Data Management, “Any application that sources data from one or more places is dependent on data integration. A sound understanding of data integration fundamentals prepares your data integration team to select the most appropriate technology and deliver the most cost effective solution for each unique problem.”

From defining and documenting the integration requirements, to designing the DI architecture, to to acquiring and unifying data– the DI team combines a range of skills. . Effective and sustainable data integration systems depend on skilled and educated data professionals from architects to implementers.

One of the most viable means of obtaining the necessary expertise to successfully implement a data integration strategy is to earn a Data Integration certification. In addition to providing individuals with the knowledge and skill sets to perform a host of integration functions. DI certification allows companies to baseline their implementation against international standards and practices.

Master Data Management offers a complete Data Integration curriculum, in partnership with elearningCurve.com, which features 11 courses, each delivered by a global expert with substantial real world experience.

The following courses are currently on offer:

  • Data Integration fundamentals and best practice
  • DI techniques for designing an ODS
  • Data parsing, matching and de-duplication
  • Data profiling
  • Data quality assessment
  • Data visualisation
  • Data warehousing fundamentals
  • Ensuring data quality in data integration
  • Fundamentals of data modelling and Meta data Management (CDS)
  • MDM architecture and implementation
  • Metadata management for data stewards (CDS)

The curriculum ensures that the team has a common foundation and understanding, while providing each team member with the ability to specialise in one or more areas. For more information, visithttp://www.masterdata.co.za/index.php/training/181-training/356-cimp-data-integration.