If your job functions include data architecture, analysis, or modeling, you need to understand the latest trends and technologies and their impact on our world. This one day seminar explores each of these trends and technologies along with the challenges and opportunities it presents for the data management professional. Topics include cloud computing, mashups, unstructured data, columnar databases, XML, and agile. In each section there are a number of challenges that we will tackle as a group which will prepare you for handling these challenges on the job. More...