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Get Certified! #DataVault 2.0 Certification in the US

Quick update – if you have been waiting to get your Data Vault 2.0 certification there are three sessions coming in the new few months right in the USA.  If you already know you want to do that, just skip down to the links and sign up!

Why Data Vault?

The Data Vault 2.0 architecture gives you an entire systems based approach to developing a true enterprise data warehouse and analytics architecture. It is very structured, pattern based, and highly repeatable. In Data Vault, each component does it’s duty, and does it well. The engineering components are generally relegated to automation tools (because it is pattern based), so human effort is not wasted in the mundane and can be used in more interesting, intelligent and thinking tasks. It’s a much better use of intelligent beings as well as machines.

Separating the concerns makes design and development not just easy, but fast.

As a side effect projects using Data Vault 2.0 have always saved a lot of money and have been extremely successful with their predictable goals. Plus they are very resilient so they tend to stay in use for years to come with little or no re-engineering! One of my systems has been running for 14 years now – and was even successfully re-platformed in that time.

How do you get in on this innovative approach?

If you want to learn more (and why wouldn’t you?), there are many upcoming opportunities across the world to get more information about Data Vault 2.0 (just check Twitter or LinkedIn – look for #DataVault). If you understand it, and you want to use it to leverage your own successes, you can even get certified (That comes with a responsibility though).

Here’s a list of upcoming opportunities to get DV 2.0 certified in the US:

1. Sep 19-21, Chicago, IL – http://www.performanceg2.com/agile-bi-datavault-training/

2. Oct 2-4, New York City, NY – http://www.scalefree.com/2017/03/30/data-vault-2-0-boot-camp-and-certification-new-york-oct-2017/

3. Nov 27-29, Santa Clara, CA – http://www.scalefree.com/2017/03/29/data-vault-2-0-boot-camp-and-certification-santaclara-nov-2017/

Ready to challenge the status quo and become a data champion at your organization? Then sign up for one of these classes today!

Model on!

Kent

The Data Warrior

Meet me in St. Louie, Louie.

Next up on the Data Warrior speaking schedule is the St. Louis SilverLinings event on May 2nd. It will be held at the St. Charles Convention Center, St. Louis, MS.

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This promises to be a very exciting event boasting “edgy” and forward looking technical topics. It’s going to be a very busy day for me with three talks in total on some of my favorite topics.

Topic 1Demystifying Data Warehousing as a Service: Top 10 Cool Features in Snowflake

Topic 2Agile Methods and Data Warehousing: How to Deliver Faster

Topic 3Agile Data Engineering: Introduction to Data Vault Data Modeling

So if you are in the St. Louis area, or fancy a trip to the Gateway to the West,  please join me there on May 2nd.

Special Discount for Data Warrior fans!

The organizers were kind enough to offer my followers a 50% discount. Wow!

Just use this code when you sign up: KGraz280790

So what are you waiting for – sign up register here.

See you soon!

Kent

The Data Warrior

Data Vault 2.0 Online Training – Early Adopter

Finally! People have been asking for this literally for years – to be able to get authentic Data Vault 2.0 (CDVP2) training in an online format.

Please remember there are no refunds and to get the best deal on the Early Adopter offer ($300 off), you must purchase by Friday March 24th, 2017. After that, the price goes up to $997.

So if you have been waiting to get Data Vault 2.o training straight from the inventor, Dan “Data Vault” Linstedt – this is your chance! Get it here.

Happy Vaulting!

Kent

The Data Warrior

NB: I have seen the videos and can say the content is the quality and caliber I expect from Dan and Sanjay, but you should also know that by buying via the links in this post, I will get a cut. Thank you.

P.S. Don’t forget about the upcoming World Wide Data Vault Consortium in Stowe this May. Sign up here.

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Agile Amped Video – Live from Southern Fried Agile

A few weeks back I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the Southern Fried Agile event in Charlotte, North Carolina.

It was quite an event with over 700 people in attendance. This is a primarily local event drawing people mostly from the Charlotte area. To say agile is big in that town is an understatement. There were some very large, name brand, companies present. If you are interested in learning more about taking an agile approach to development, I can highly recommend this event which draws excellent speakers (and vendors) from all over. (And the traditional southern fried lunch was pretty darn good too!)

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My talk was on applying agile methods to data warehousing projects. I had a great audience of about 50 who wanted to learn how they might approach their DW projects differently.

In addition to giving my talk I got the opportunity to participate in my 2nd Agile Amped interview. This time my interviewer was Leslie from SolutionsIQ. We talked a lot about the rise of agile in the data warehousing space and how new technology solutions like Snowflake’s Cloud-Native Elastic Data Warehouse are helping organizations achieve a more agile deployment cycle.

Here is the entire interview for your viewing pleasure:

If you want to watch more Agile Amped video podcasts you can find them online here.

Enjoy.

Kent

The Data Warrior

Tech Tip: Quick Start for Getting Your Data into Snowflake

From my most recent blog about @SnowflakeDB:

If you are like me and fairly new to this whole cloud thing, then one of your main questions is likely:

“How do I get data from my desktop (or server) into Snowflake so I can query it?”

Which, in reality, translates to:

“How do I load data in the cloud?”

Read the rest of the post to see how: Tech Tip: Quick Start for Getting Your Data into Snowflake

Happy Data Loading!

Kent

The Data Warrior

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