Data & Information Modeling & Management

Catalog description

The Era of instantaneous Data is here. Data is a strategic organizational asset and a central resource used in business intelligence (BI) and analytics to generate actionable information to decision-makers. Many companies rely on Excel Spreadsheets for data management and analytics. Excel Spreadsheets conceal a churning sea of data, flowing through the enterprise databases, that need to be combined and synchronized to generate a single, accurate vision of the data. Current data infrastructure designs are crucial but inefficient for a company to become data-driven. Often, organizations have several databases that are built in a silo type of environment where data is not easily linked so that the full picture of the organization's status is available. The focus of this course is centered on the core skills of identifying organizational information requirements, information modeling and all principles related to managing and storing organization data and information. Students will gain insight into understanding how data fundamentally affects a business. These core data management and design skills cross all disciplines, from financial data to customer related data. In addition, recent developments related to big data (and tools for their analysis) will be introduced.