Data Modelling Essentials

Change the way you think

Bring a new perspective to your work by learning to model data and specify data requirements. You'll be surprised how it changes your thinking, increases your rigour and improves the quality of your work.

Data Modelling Essentials is delivered in 4 modules, each progressively building competancy in a challenging but highly rewarding technique which provides fundamental new insights into requirements.

Course benefits

• Engage more successfully with business stakeholders

  Learn to identify underlying concepts in natural language so that you can build a better understanding of the business and communicate more effectively with your business stakeholders.

• Improve your engagement with technical stakeholders

  Learn to specify unambiguous data requirements and business rules for use by technical stakeholders in the data design activity.

• Be more successful at package selection, systems integration and data migration

  Learn to model data so that you can understand the semantics of the data and identify structural and attribute level compatibility issues during analysis.

• Produce better quality processes and software

  Understand why data modelling is critical to business process design, software quality and how to prove your functional requirements.

• Progress your professional development

  Use the Continuing Development Units (CDUs) gained from this course to qualify to take the CBAP®.

Course features

• Pedigree

  Data Modelling Essentials has undergone continuous refinement since its first delivery in 1994, maintaining its position as the most effective data modelling education on the market.

• Modular structure

  The four module structure allows you to progress at your own pace and target the level of proficiency you require.

• Industry experienced instructor

  As the leader in Business Analysis our instructors are practicing Business Analysts with at least one decade of highly relevant experience in Business Analysis and training.

• BABOK Guide 2.0 compliant

  The course is compliant with version 2 of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®), the recognised industry standard developed by the International Institute of Business Analysis® (IIBA®)

• Comprehensive delegate reference guide to take away

  Continue to benefit after the course with your complimentary module reference guides distilled from our extensive experience and corporate knowledge.

• Small class sizes

  Class sizes are capped at 7 delegates for the more advanced modules to maintain the ideal learning environment and ensure that we provide individual attention.

• Interactive

  Unique exercises and group activities provide opportunities to network with other delegates and share learning and business experience.

• Accreditation

  Endorsed by the IIBA (Program code E120-02) with 44 Continuing Development Units (CDUs) earned on completing the course. Check our accreditation by visiting the IIBA web site and look for us under the Endorsed Education Providers.

• Flexible delivery

  Data Modelling Essentials is available as a public course as advertised on the schedule. It is also available as a tailored in-house course. The first two modules are also available as correspondence courses.