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EeS National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) 101 Training – 1 Day

Problem: A lack of context and common vocabulary can make data exchange difficult between organizations.

Outcome: An understanding of the NIEM common vocabulary and why it makes data easy to understand and share.

Target Audience: Business users, information exchange developers, and data architects.

Module 1: NIEM Concepts
  • What is NIEM and what are its benefits?
  • How is NIEM structured?
  • Organization data assets management
  • Mapping data assets to NIEM
  • Use cases and IEPD/IEP
  • How to build IEPD/IEP
Module 2: NIEM Management
  • Reference schema
  • Core, domains
  • Namespaces, types, and properties
  • Extension schema
Module 3: IEPD Lifecycle
  • Scenario planning and requirements analysis
  • Element mapping and model search and selection
  • Want-list, schema subset building, and conformance targets
  • IEPD assembly
Module 4: Hands-on Exercises
  • Step-by-step IEPD development life-cycle
  • NIEM tools to support IEPD development

Enterprise Information Management 101 Training – 1 Day

Problem: Poor governance of data can result in data redundancies and confusion which translate to decision-making related inefficiencies.

Outcome: Authoritative data sources and an optimized data environment may provide better visibility and control of data.

Target Audience: Business and technical personnel

Module 1: Concepts of Enterprise Data Management and Benefits
  • Disadvantages of stovepipe data
  • Single source of truth, optimization of data environment
  • Data discovery, stewardship, and privacy
  • Metadata, master and reference data management
  • Data governance and its benefits and relationship to metadata management
Module 2: Development of Data Taxonomy, Collection of Data Assets, Mapping of Data Assets into Data Taxonomy and Self-service
  • Development of data taxonomies, collection of data assets, mapping of data assets into data taxonomies, and self-service
  • Concepts of data-centricity and the cross-linking of topics across subject areas
  • Collection of data assets
  • Mapping of data assets into an enterprise data taxonomy
  • Data assets catalogs
  • Unlock data for decision-making through self-service
Module 3: Modeling Concepts
  • Metamodeling best practices and EA models
  • Data paradigm and its touchpoints to business and technology layers
Module 4: Hands-on Exercises
  • Creating classifications
  • Ingesting data assets
  • Mapping data assets and generating assets catalogs
  • Selecting data elements and creating datasets

Big Data and Data Lakes 101 Training – 1 Day

Problem: The lack of a central place to host data can cause data redundancies and data consistency issues.

Outcome: Build data lakes to integrate your enterprise solution with a holistic view of your data.

Target Audience: Data architects, modelers, analysts, and developers

Module 1: Big Data Concept, Tools, and Technologies
  • What is big data? The storage and processing challenge
  • HDFS and map reduce
  • Data science and new insights
  • AI: the road ahead
  • Tools and technologies
Module 2: Data Lakes, ELT, and Design Considerations
  • What are data lakes? Why data lakes?
  • ETL vs ELT, data governance and metadata management
  • Tools for ingestion, access and analysis of data
Module 3: Hands-on Exercises
  • Using tools to ingest data into Hadoop data lakes
  • Setting up access to Hadoop data
  • Using tools to analyze data in Hadoop
Module 4: Hands-on Exercises
  • Creating classifications
  • Ingesting data assets
  • Mapping data assets and generating assets catalogs
  • Selecting data elements and creating datasets

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