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While TDWI conferences always cover the full spectrum of business intelligence and data warehousing, the conference in Chicago will also include courses throughout the week that broaden your knowledge, skill, and ability in the following areas:
BI Essentials
Strengthen your understanding of business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW). These courses are designed to take you from basic BI/DW concepts and principles to expanded essentials such as data modeling and metrics. New and returning students will find that these courses provide the building blocks that are the keys to understanding the rest of this dynamic field of information technology.
Data Management—Quality, Governance, Master Data Management (MDM), Integration
Data is the cornerstone of a business intelligence system and the management of it can be very complex. High quality data is needed to drive profitable business decisions. Dirty data has long been the Achilles heel of data warehousing. Learn how to model, improve quality, integrate, store, and govern this most precious asset.
Data Modeling
Data that is organized and optimally stored in the warehouse needs thoughtful design in order to fulfill business needs. Business analysts taking these courses will be better prepared to work with their technical counterparts, and developers taking these courses will be able to ask the right questions to determine how to design and implement the best data structures. This conference offers an in-depth look at dimensional modeling.