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Q: How do I schedule an on-site training program?
A: All Inteq training programs are available on-site at your location. On-site training enables us to tailor the delivery of the program to the unique needs and requirements of your organization. Contact us for details.

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A: On-site training is cost effective with as few a 8 participants. The tuition is tiered, based on the number of participants, up to 24 participants. Contact us for a quote.

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A: Yes. We can create custom configurations across our existing programs, integrate hands-on mentoring, etc., to meet your special and unique training requirements.

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A: Yes.  Inteq training programs are available via open enrollment at scheduled dates locations across the U.S and London.  See the registraion page for details.

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A: All Inteq instructors are first and foremost real-world hands-on practitioners of the subject matter. Our instructors are highly experienced professionals that also have excellent teaching and communication skills. (Also see "8 Reasons to Schedule an Inteq Training Program")

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                               Business Data Modeling 

                        Day 1: Discovering, Mapping and Analyzing

                 Data Oriented Business Rules and Requirements

Successful business and systems analysis requires a clear, precise, accurate, unambiguous, cross-enterprise common understanding of an organization’s business concepts and terminology and the underlying rules governing how these concepts relate one to the other. This body of knowledge is referred to as an organization’s data-oriented business rules.

This body of knowledge is referred to as an organization’s data-oriented business rules. Data-oriented business rules are a business thing – and, exist independent of technology solutions.

Day 1 is the first day of this acclaimed 2-day instructor led training program. Day 1 enables participants to rapidly recognize recurring patterns of data-oriented business rules, create professional quality ER diagrams to capture data-oriented business rules and to apply advanced critical thinking skills to thoroughly analyze data-oriented business rules.

An ER diagram is a business-oriented (non technical) visual representation of an organization’s data-oriented business rules. ER diagramming is one of the most powerful and effective techniques available to support business and systems analysis.

Why this training program is important to you and to your organization

Data-oriented business rules in many organizations are often maintained informally in the minds of business end users and are often ambiguously defined and inconsistently applied across the enterprise.

These same ambiguous inconsistent definitions of data oriented business rules, unfortunately, are often utilized in connection with specifying business requirements for technology solutions – resulting in solutions that are not effective in supporting business end users.

Business Data Modeling is about rapidly discovering, thoroughly analyzing, precisely defining and accurately specifying data oriented business rules to enable effective business and IT solutions.

Discovering, analyzing, defining and specifying data oriented business rules is a business analysis thing performed from a business perspective - not a database design thing performed from technical perspective!

Who Should Attend?

Business and Systems Analysts, Project Managers, Data Modelers, Data Architects, Developers and DBAs, and subject matter experts and business users actively involved in discovering, analyzing and specifying business requirements.

Prerequisites: N/A

In Day 1 Participants learn to:

• Recognize recurring data patterns that will enable you to rapidly capture and analyze virtually any set of data oriented business rules within your organization
• Rapidly developed and validate professional level entity-relationship (ER) diagrams
• Apply advanced critical thinking that enables you to cut though ambiguous superficial level discussions to distill the essence of complex business concepts
• Specify precise unambiguous data oriented business rules - from a business perspective to ensure a consistent common understanding among business end users, analysts and IT Professionals

                                Day 1 Program Outline:

Business Data Concepts
• Model driven analysis
• ER diagrams and data models
• Entity types and attributes
• Relationships and attributes
• Meta-data and supporting Information
• Relationships, cardinality and dependency

Identifying, Capturing & Analyzing Recurring Patterns of Data-Oriented Business Rules
• Domain entity types
• Associative relationships
• Domain based associations
• Role-based relationships
• Transactional relationships
• Time-dependent data

Normalizing Business Data
• First normal form
• Second normal form
• Third normal form

Putting It All together - Case Study: Participants work together in small groups to discover and analyze the business rules and develop an E/R diagram based on a business case facilitated by the instructor.

Best Practices and Practical Tips
• Validating E/R diagrams via scenario analysis
• Critical thinking from an enterprise perspective
• Business analysis discovery techniques
• Critical success factors

Inteq’s instructor-led format and best practice curriculum, combined with carefully crafted exercises and case studies, is the industry’s most effective business data modeling training experience.

Program participants receive a comprehensive course workbook, supplemental materials, and a personalized certificate of completion indicating CEU (continuing education unit) credits awarded.

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Join over 300,000 business and IT professionals worldwide that have attended our training programs.

Inteq training programs are available via open enrolment at scheduled dates/ locations across the U.S and London and on-site at your locations – worldwide.

Please call us at 800.719.4627 or contact us at info@inteqgroup.com or please visit our website at www.inteqgroup.com.

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