Lawrence Corr presents keynote about data modeling during DW&BI Summit 2019

Lawrence Corr will present a keynote during the Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence Summit on March 27th and 28th 2019; Data Modelstorming: From Business Models to Analytical Models. In this lively session Lawrence Corr shares his favourite collaborative modeling techniques for successfully engaging stakeholders using BEAM (Business Event Analysis and Modeling) and the Business Model Canvas for value-driven BI requirements gathering and star schema design.

Lawrence Corr is a leading international BI consultant and former Ralph Kimball Associate. He is the author of Agile Data Warehouse Design: Collaborative Dimensional Modeling, from Whiteboard to Star Schema, an Amazon #1 bestseller in data warehousing and database design. Lawrence has worked on data warehousing projects in the US, Europe, the Middle East and Africa within healthcare, telecoms, broadcasting, higher education, financial services and retail, helping organizations benefit from simpler, more inclusive requirements modeling techniques. Lawrence’s new book Data Modelstorming: Using BEAM to Design the Data Everyone Wants will be published in 2019.

In his session ‘Data Modelstorming: From Business Models to Analytical Models’ Corr shares his favourite collaborative modeling techniques – popularized in books such as ‘Business Model Generation’ and ‘Agile Data Warehouse Design’ – for successfully engaging stakeholders using BEAM (Business Event Analysis and Modeling) and the Business Model Canvas for value-driven BI requirements gathering and star schema design. Learn how visual thinking, narrative, 7Ws and lots of Post-it notes can get your stakeholders thinking dimensionally and capturing their own data requirements with agility. Corr will talk in this session about the whys of data modelstorming; drawing user-focused data models; using BEAM (Business Event Analysis and Modeling) to discover key data sources and define rich data sets; and applying Modelstorming templates which you can download and start using straight away.

Furthermore, Lawrence Corr will give a practical three-day workshop Agile Datawarehouse Design on 19th to the 21st of June. In this training about dimensional modeling, the latest techniques are discussed for getting the right Business Intelligence requirements and the design of effective datawarehouse- and BI-systems. Fast registration is very wise, considering his reputation as a renowned top-speaker and the limited number of seats.