Core Topics
TDWI conferences are an essential part of meeting your educational goals. Whether you need to quickly develop knowledge and skill in a specific area, want to delve into advanced topics, or are interested in validating your learning by becoming a Certified Business Intelligence Professional, TDWI conferences can accommodate your needs.
TDWI conferences are an essential part of meeting your educational goals. Whether you need to quickly develop knowledge and skill in a specific area, want to delve into advanced topics, or are interested in validating your learning by becoming a Certified Business Intelligence Professional, TDWI conferences can accommodate your needs.
Selecting Your Courses
This site gives you detailed information on courses available at the TDWI World Conference San Diego 2010. A good way to start is to visit the Agenda pages to see which courses are available throughout the week.
You can view the agenda:
- By Date
- By Core Topic
- By Instructor
To select which courses are right for you, simply click on each course title in the grid to browse the course descriptions.
More about Core Topics
The field of BI logically segments into five core disciplines, and our courses are organized in a similar fashion. The Core Topics on the Agenda pages are color-coded to help you plan your week at TDWI's World Conference in San Diego. Each code course indicates how it corresponds to the five core disciplines. Some courses touch upon more than one core discipline. The five core disciplines are defined below:
Business Analytics focuses on the effective use of data and information to drive positive business actions. The body of knowledge for this area includes both business and technical topics: concepts of performance management, definition and delivery of business metrics, data visualization, and deployment and use of technology solutions such as OLAP, dashboards, scorecards, analytic applications, and data mining. Find courses in this discipline.
Leadership and Management is a key success factor for BI programs and projects, with a strong focus on effectively integrating people, processes, and technology to deliver business value. The field requires depth of process knowledge, including development methodology, program management, and project management, as well as organizational and team-building skills. An understanding of business topics such as business performance management (BPM), customer relationship management (CRM), and supply chain management (SCM) is also needed. A high-level technical understanding of BI applications and data warehousing concepts is also part of the Leadership and Management body of knowledge. Find courses in this discipline.
Data Analysis and Design provides the foundation for delivery of BI applications. Analysis concentrates on understanding business needs for data and information. Design focuses on translating business information needs into data structures that are adaptable, extensible, and sustainable. Core skills include information needs analysis, specification of business metrics, and data modeling. A solid understanding of data warehousing concepts, architectures, and processes is also essential. Find courses in this discipline.
Data Integration is fundamental to data warehousing and is a vital process for a rich and robust data resource to deliver BI solutions. Integration includes all of the activities necessary to acquire data from sources, and to transform and cleanse the data. The body of knowledge includes concepts and skills for source data analysis and source qualification, data profiling, source/target mapping, data cleansing and transformation, and ETL development. Find courses in this discipline.
Administration and Technology covers those areas related to managing the infrastructure and ensuring continuous operation of data warehousing and BI solutions. Technology architecture, technology planning and configuration, system and network administration, capacity planning, growth management, database administration, system and network administration, and access and security administration are essential skills in this area. Find courses in this discipline.