BI technologies, BI management, BI data analytics, BI reporting tools
Database management systems (DBMS), Data warehousing best practices, Data architecture and data modeling concepts
Data quality tools, Data quality best practices, Data governance model
Enterprise data integration and enterprise application integration, SOA data services, ETL in data warehousing, Master data management (MDM), Customer data integration (CDI)
This was first published in October 2011
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