MIKE FERGUSON

Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited

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As an analyst and consultant, he specialises in business intelligence and enterprise business integration. With over 35 years of IT experience, Mike has consulted for dozens of companies. He has spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles.

He is Chairman of Big Data LDN – the fastest growing Big Data conference in Europe, chairman of the UK CDO Exchange, the Italian Big Data Conference and the Italian Data and Analytics Conference.  Formerly he was a principal and co-founder of Codd and Date Europe Limited – the inventors of the Relational Model, a Chief Architect at Teradata on the Teradata DBMS and European Managing Director of Database Associates.  He teaches popular master classes in Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics, Big Data Fundamentals, Data Governance & MDM, and Data Lake operations.

This new 2-day seminar looks at the business case as to why you need to do this, discusses the tools and techniques needed to capture new data types, establish a data pipeline to produce re-usable data assets, modernise your data warehouse and bring together the data and analytics needed to accelerate time to value, deliver new insights to foster growth, reduce costs, improve effectiveness and enable competitive advantage.

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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

• Understand why data warehouse modernisation is needed to help improve decision making and competitiveness.
   

• Have the ingredients to know how to modernise your data warehouse to improve agility, reduce cost of ownership, facilitate easy maintenance.
   

• Understand modern data modelling techniques and how to reduce the number of data stores in a data warehouse without losing information.
   

• Understand how to exploit cloud computing at a lower cost.
   

• Understand how to reduce data latency.
   

• Know how to migrate from a waterfall based data warehouse and data marts to a lean, modern logical data warehouse with virtual data marts that integrates easily with other analytical systems.
   

• Know how to use data virtualisation to simplify access to a more comprehensive set of insights available on multiple analytical platforms running analytics on different types of data for precise evidence-based decision making.
   

• Understand the role of a modern data warehouse in a
  data-driven enterprise.

DAY 1

Module 1

The Traditional Data Warehouse and Why It Needs Modernised

Module 2

Modern Data Warehouse Requirements

Module 3

Modern Data Modelling Techniques
for Agile Data Warehousing

Module 4

Modernising Your ETL Processing

Module 5

Accelerating ETL Processing Using a Multi-purpose Data Lake
and Data Catalog

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DAY 2

Module 6

Rapid Data Warehouse Development Using

Data Warehouse Automation

Module 7

Building A Modern Data Warehouse

in a Cloud Computing Environment

Module 8

Simplifying Data Access - Creating Virtual Data Marts

and a Logical Data Warehouse Architecture to Integrate

Big Data with Your Data Warehouse

Module 9

Getting Started with Data Warehouse Modernisation

AUDIENCE

CDO's

CIO's

IT Managers

CTO's

Business Analysts

Data Scientists

BI Managers

Data Warehousing professionals

Enterprise architects

Data Architects

REGISTRATION

TICKETS: 1.500€ + IVA

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Limited seats | Lunch included