Master Data Management partner, eLearningCurve, has recently launched a Data Literacy Certification (DLC) that provides a solid foundation for organisations to understand the many dimensions of data ranging from data and databases to data management, data analysis, and data science.
Data literacy is the ability to understand, find meaning, interpret, and communicate using data, and has evolved into a necessary skill set for anybody working in business today, as well as a must for any organisation to remain competitive. Once the domain of technical professionals, data skills are now a part of nearly every job role.
“We expect information to be a business differentiator. Yet, in practice, only 25% of workers feel they use data effectively in their jobs, and only 21% of workers feel confident in their overall data literacy skills. It doesn't matter how much data your business collects if your staff and decision-makers are not equipped to use it effectively. Our data literacy training will give your workforce the skills that your business needs to thrive in the digital economy,” says Gary Allemann, MD at Master Data Management.
According to Arkady Maydanchik, Director for Enterprise Solutions at eLearningCurve, data literacy is a differentiator between companies that thrive and those that struggle to survive. Recent studies find that organisations with aggressive data literacy training programs outperform those who have not prioritised data literacy.
“Our customers asked us to extend our existing data management training program to support everyday knowledge workers, as well as the data management specialists that already rely on us to build their expertise. Smaller companies can purchase individual data literacy bundles, while larger customers can purchase an annual corporate license for the material of each course to rollout access across the enterprise,” says Maydanchik. "Certifications allow staff to test their understanding of, and ability to apply the course material, and provide metrics for adoption to managers and skills and development teams."
The program is split into 12 topics mapped to the Data Literacy Body Of Knowledge. For each topic, eLearningCurve offers a ‘Basics’ module (about 20 minutes in length) and a ‘Beyond the Basics’ module. All Basics modules are combined into the Data Literacy Basics course with a certification exam. Beyond the Basics (BTB) modules are split into two course
s: Data Literacy for Data Managers and Data Literacy for Data Analysts, each with a certification exam.
The certification structure entails three levels of Data Literacy Certification to address the needs of various groups of knowledge workers:
- DLC - earned by passing the Data Literacy Basics exam. This level targets a broad group of students who would benefit from the baseline data literacy knowledge – basically everyone who works with data in any capacity.
- DLC Expert - earned by passing the Data Literacy Basics exam and either one of the two BTB exams. This level targets particular business analysts and managers who work more closely with data, but who are not data management professionals. It is recommended particularly for those who work in data-driven industries, such as insurance or finance.
- DLC Mentor - earned by passing all three exams and achieving at least a 75% average score. This level targets students who would benefit from comprehensive education and certification in all areas of Data Literacy. Those employees could help mentor and coach others and help grow data literacy throughout the organisation.
About Master Data Management
A Level 2 BBBEE provider, Master Data Management (MDM) combines education, consulting and technologies to simplify data management with a focus on Data Integrity, Data Governance and Compliance, Data Quality and Master Data Management. MDM leverages the international expertise and highly rated technologies of vendors, including Precisely, MANTA and Silwood Technology to enhance fifteen years’ local experience. Through a partnership with eLearningcurve.com MDM offers an internationally recognised data management curriculum and Certified Information Management Professional (CIMP) accreditation. MDM’s solutions have assisted clients in financial services, retail, government, mining, manufacturing and telecommunications.
About eLearningCurve
eLearningCurve was founded to provide state-of-the-art online education and comprehensive industry certification in various information management disciplines. Our vision is to bring a better level of content, and a higher set of results to this critical field of continuing technical education.
Master Data Management partner, eLearningCurve has announced a new course: "Data Visualization and Storytelling: Fundamentals of Communicating with Data" by Mark Peco.
Communication is the final stretch of a data analysis journey. Analysis, discovery, insight, forecasting, prediction … none of these have real impact until the results are communicated and understood. This new course extends our Business Analytics and Business Intelligence curriculum and teaches how best to communicate the results of analytics.
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July 2021 - Master Data Management partner, Precisely, have announced that it has been named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Data Governance Solutions, Q3 2021. The evaluation, conducted before Precisely acquired Infogix in May, assessed the current offering, strategy, and market presence of the 12 most significant providers.
Read more: Precisely Named a Leader in Data Governance Solutions
Master Data Management partner, Precisely, the global leader in data integrity software, has announced a definitive agreement to acquire data integrity and governance software provider Infogix.
Precisely helps companies achieve a foundation of trusted data on which to build their digital futures. The company’s market-leading data integrity software portfolio provides maximum accuracy, consistency and context in data for more confident business decisions. In Infogix, Precisely is acquiring Data Governance, Data Catalog and Strategic Data Services that extend its data integrity software leadership. Infogix also brings highly complementary Data Quality capabilities that help ensure customers’ business decisions are made with the right data at the right time and with the right context.
“Master Data Management has strong existing relationships with both Precisely and Infogix,” said Gary Allemann, MD and CDO at Master Data Management. “The complementary fit between the technology stacks was obvious to us and this acquisition should give confidence to customers and prospects of both Precisely and Infogix.”
“As companies seek to position and differentiate themselves for the digital era, they quickly realize that success requires trusted data. Precisely provides that foundation with maximum accuracy, consistency and context so businesses can make confident data-driven decisions,” said Josh Rogers, CEO of Precisely. “Infogix is a perfect fit for Precisely, with highly complementary data quality products and services, and a leading data governance solution that our customers have been seeking.”
The cloud continues to empower users from across the enterprise to make critical business decisions with data and analytics. Infogix’s suite of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) capabilities across governance and data quality helps accelerate these decisions and ensure they are made with trusted data. In addition, Infogix’s pre-packaged, self-service tools built for specific vertical or business use cases help business users across a range of industries gain strategic value from data more quickly. The Infogix Strategic Services team has successfully helped more than 200 organizations develop and execute a strategy to leverage data assets to propel their businesses forward. These strategic service engagements will help Precisely scale to meet customer demand for its products, including the Precisely Data Integrity Suite.
To learn more about this acquisition and the Precisely Data Integrity Suite, please register for the Trust ’21 Data Integrity Summits in the Americas on June 15th, in Asia-Pacific on June 16th, and in EMEA on June 17th.
Master Data Management partner, Silwood Technology, has announced the release and immediate availability of Safyr 7.6 with support for SAP BW/4HANA. This version continues to deliver on Silwood Technology’s strategy to support customers who need to use SAP’s BW product family to derive rapid value from their data and analytics transformation initiatives.
Safyr 7.6 enables customers and partners to rapidly provision their data catalogue, data governance and other data transformation platforms with accurate business-friendly metadata from SAP BW/4HANA. This adds SAP BW/4HANA to the list of other SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and Salesforce applications supported by Safyr for metadata discovery, visualisation and curation.
Using Safyr 7.6 with SAP BW/4HANA reduces the time and cost of provisioning data catalogue or data governance projects with metadata from SAP BW/4HANA. It also helps to facilitate the migration of data for use in new data warehouse and analytics environments. It enables these use cases by providing easy and comprehensive insight into the complex data structures which underpin SAP BW/4HANA.
“Safyr helps organisations to understand the complex data models of their commercial ERP and CRM systems, and to make this data available to the data catalogue or other metadata management tools to add business context,” said Gary Allemann, MD at Master Data Management. “This new version adds enhanced support for the increasingly popular SAP4/HANA data warehouse, accelerating time to value for anyone wishing to build analytics on top of the SAP platform.”
In technical terms, Safyr 7.6 introduces enhanced support for SAP customers implementing their next-generation data warehouse built on the SAP HANA in-memory platform. In particular, the product now extracts and makes available metadata about Advanced DataStore Objects (ADSO’s) and HANA Composite Providers.
Silwood Technology has also introduced additional facilities to save time and increase flexibility by allowing customers to automate their Safyr process. This means that customers can use commonly available tools to schedule the extraction of metadata from source applications, populate subsets and then provision the metadata in other tools.
Click here to find out more about Silwood Technology.
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