A practical seminar in which the popular technologies for storing and processing big data are critically examined and clarified by independent data warehouse and database specialist Rick van der Lans. All new technologies are covered: Hadoop, MapReduce, Kudu, Spark, NoSQL, Graph, NewSQL, analytical SQL databases, GPU databases, Kafka and streaming databases. What are the use cases of the different solutions for your organization? How do you integrate with existing infrastructures? The focus will be on the use of big data within business intelligence and data warehouse systems.

This highly participative workshop provides approaches for many difficult data modeling situations, as well as techniques for improving communication between data modelers and subject matter experts. Topics will be covered with a discussion of the issue, a review of guidelines and examples, a workshop exercise, and a group solution and debriefing.

Business analysis is investigating the work of the business, and finding both the problems to be corrected and better solutions for the business processes. Business analysis is a combination of modelling, systemic thinking, innovating, communicating, project analysis, persuasion and several other analytical skills.
This course in BA by James Archer gives you the skills and tools to discover your client’s real business, and to determine and demonstrate the best ways of improving it.