10 Reasons to attend Inteq Training Programs
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Frequently Asked Questions

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 need and requirements of your organization. Contact us for details.

Q: What is the tuition for on-site training?
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.

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

Q. Are your training programs available on an open enrollment basis?
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.

Q. Who will be our instructor?
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")

Q: How do I get more info?
A: Please contact us at 800.719.4627 or email us a info@inteqgroup.com or send us your questions via the Contact Us page.

Business Data Modeling - Part II: Analyzing Business Requirements from an Enterprise Perspective

Professional business and systems analysis requires a clear, precise, accurate, unambiguous, cross-enterprise common understating of an organization’s business concepts, business 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.

Inteq's Business Data Modeling training program (Part I + Part 2) provides participants with the critical thinking skills, conceptual knowledge and best practice techniques rapidly discover, define and thoroughly analyze an organization’s data-oriented business rules. Business Data Modeling Part I is the first day and Part II is the second day of this acclaimed 2-day instructor led training program.

Business Data Modeling Part I provided participants with the entity-relationship (ER) diagramming techniques and critical thinking skills to discover, analyze and specify key business concepts and the underlying data-oriented business rules.

Business Data Modeling Part II takes analysis to the enterprise level by analyzing requirements from the perspective:
> That requirements often transcend a specific in-the-moment individual project/solution and often need to support multiple business end-user roles and business requirements across multiple business processes across the enterprise
> That “how” an organization operates is continually changing – and, accordingly, business requirements are not static, but change continually and rapidly over time
> That requirements are often more complex when they are scaled to the enterprise level than they initially appear at the departmental or business unit level

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

Projects involving the development and/or integration of ERP or cross-enterprise solutions typically also involve analyzing and specifying complex business requirements.

Analysis, in many cases, however, is often conducted superficially from narrow functional “silo-ed” perspective rather than a comprehensive cross-enterprise perspective.

Narrow and/or superficial analysis frequently results in:
> Systems that are rapidly obsolete from a functional perspective and not effective in the long-term in supporting business end users from a cross-enterprise perspective
> Business end users expending substantial non-productive time creating and maintaining work-arounds in the form of spreadsheets and Access databases, and
> Business processes that become entrenched rather than flexible and adaptable

Business Data Modeling Part II provides participants with the deep knowledge and critical thinking skills to analyze and specify complex and rapidly changing business requirements from a cross-functional enterprise perspective.

Who Should Attend?

Business and Systems Analysts, Data Modelers and Data Architects, Developers and DBAs and anyone actively involved in discovering, analyzing and specifying cross-enterprise business and systems requirements.

Prerequisites: Business Data Modeling Part I

In Part II Participants learn:

• Advanced analysis techniques that enable you to quickly recognize and accurately analyze complex business rules and validate complex requirements
•Generalization techniques that enable you to analyze and specify business system requirements from a cross-enterprise perspective
•Abstraction techniques that enable you to analyze and specify business systems requirements that adapt to rapidly changing business requirements

Part II Program Outline

Identifying, Capturing & Analyzing Recurring Patterns of Complex Data-Oriented Business Rules
• Recursive hierarchies
• Recursive networks
• Multi-recursive relationships
• Super type/sub-type relationships
• State transition relationships
• Multi-dimensional relationships

Cross-Enterprise Abstraction and Generalization
• Generalizing business entities
• Static vs. dynamic business entities
• Analyzing meta-data for abstractions
• The “meta entity” pattern
• Extending ER diagrams to logical data models

Putting It All Together - Case Study:Participants work in small groups to analyze a complex business case facilitated by the instructor and create a detailed E/R diagram utilizing a variety of advanced patterns and analysis techniques.

Best Practices and Practical Tips
• Logical to physical transformation considerations
• Specifying and managing requirements from an enterprise perspective
• Working with the business from a cross-enterprise perspective

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 200,000 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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