William McKnight, senior vice president of Data Warehousing at Conversion Services International (CSI), will teach a new full-day course on master data management, Thursday, May 18. This course will review master data management (MDM) concepts, rationales, organization, architecture options, and implementation milestones, yielding best practices for reducing redundancy, duplication, and inconsistency of data.

According to McKnight, “More complex and demanding business environments are forcing more heterogeneous systems environments. Data integration is required to synchronize master data in order to get a single, consistent view of an enterprise’s core business entities—customers, products, suppliers and employees. MDM enables enterprisewide master data synchronization. Given that effective master data for any subject area requires input from multiple applications and business units, enterprise master data needs a formal management system. Business approval, business process change, and capture of master data at optimal, early points in the data lifecycle are essential to achieving true enterprise master data.”

In addition, Mark Albala, CSI’s director of Solution Services, will be instructing a TDWI night course on radio frequency identification (RFID) which will take place May 18 from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m.

McKnight and Albala will be available for consultation as part of TDWI’s Guru Program, where conference attendees can secure free, 30-minute, one-on-one consulting sessions from an industry expert.

CSI is a partner member of TDWI, the premier provider of in-depth, high-quality education and research in the business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) industry.

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The Data Warehousing Institute™ (TDWI), a division of 101communications, is the premier provider of in-depth, high-quality education and research in the business intelligence and data warehousing industry. TDWI is dedicated to educating business and information technology professionals about the strategies, techniques, and tools required to successfully design, build, and maintain business intelligence and data warehousing solutions. It also fosters the advancement of business intelligence and data warehousing research and contributes to knowledge transfer and professional development of its Members. TDWI sponsors and promotes a worldwide Membership program, quarterly educational conferences, regional educational seminars, role-based training, onsite courses, certification, solution provider partnerships, an awards program for best practices, resourceful publications, an in-depth research program, and a comprehensive Web site (www.tdwi.org).

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