Course Content

• • Overview of reference and master data concepts, their significance in data management, and their impact on organizational processes.
• • Understanding the differences between reference data and master data.
• • Implementing processes and best practices to ensure data quality and consistency across reference and master data elements, systems, and processes.
• • Leveraging metadata management practices to facilitate understanding, discovery, and governance of reference and master data.
• • Techniques for integrating reference and master data across systems and processes to ensure data consistency and integrity.
• • Tips and strategies for successfully completing DAMA certification exams in reference and master data.

Agenda of the Course

The course includes training, practice, and downloadable materials for the facilitation of learners. The main sections of the training are:

• • Introduction
  Relations with other DAMA topics, drivers, goals, and principles.
• • Essential concepts
  Differences between reference and master data, reference data, master data, and data sharing architecture.
• • Activities
  Define drivers and requirements, assess data sources, define architectural approach, model data sets, define stewardship and maintenance processes, and establish data governance policies.
• • Tools & Techniques
  Master data management tools, Reference data management tools.
• • Implementation
  Monitor data movement, manage changes, data sharing agreements, and organization and cultural change.
• • Governance
  Process controls, documentation, and metrics.

Benefits

There are several benefits of participating in the Reference and Master Data Specialist course. Some of them include:

• • Learners get a solid foundation on reference and master data.
• • Learners become certified reference and master data Specialists.
• • Learners learn to understand the principal concepts and terminology.

This course is designed to facilitate the learning and understanding of learners about metadata management and its related concepts.