Montgomery Park

As hybrid clouds become more prevalent, IT organizations struggle to deal with moving and managing data. While computation and applications can be outsourced, once data is generated, IT is on the hook to control it as long as it exists. Data governance and data security are particularly difficult to address in hybrid environments.

Parth Patel will discuss the importance of creating a standardized data fabric with a common data management platform that can tier access, providing hierarchical data lifecycle management for data lakes. Also included are a discussion of “in production” use cases of this tiered data lake approach for Hybrid “Ground to Cloud” environments across multiple industries.

Topics during this session include: · Data governance · Data security · Hybrid “Cloud to Ground” architectures · Metadata management

Join us at 8:30 for a continental breakfast and networking with other local data professionals. Parth's Hybrid Cloud Data Architecture presentation starts at 9 and goes to 11:30. Free parking available in the main Montgomery Park surface lot.

Speaker

Parth Patel is a Big Data Solutions Engineer at Zaloni. He has extensive experience in architecting analytics-ready next-generation data lakes incorporating on-premise or public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) infrastructure to meet enterprise needs. Parth brings a wide range of experience with various big data technologies, data analytics tools, and mobile applications, leveraging previous experience in network solutions architecting for Orologic, and Vitesse, as well as a technology advisory role at Dunkin’ Brands for their retail technology platform.

About DAMA Portland

The Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Administration Management Association has been serving the Portland data community since 1984. We are a not-for-profit, vendor independent, professional association dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise information and data resource management.

Our primary purpose is to promote the understanding, development and practice of managing data, information and knowledge resources as key enterprise assets.

The DAMA Portland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought provoking data-centric presentations that will make you more successful in your job. Please join me, the rest of the DAMA board, and other fellow lovers of data at this regular chapter meeting in downtown Portland.

Thanks for your support of local Data Education, we look forward to seeing you there!

Join your fellow Lovers of Data for a full day of data education and networking provided by your local Portland DAMA Chapter. Register now to reserve your spot.

Four sessions packed into one incredible day of training:

1. Agile Methods and Data Warehousing: How to Deliver Faster
2. Agile Data Engineering: Introduction to Data Vault 2.0
3. Case Study: Data Warehousing in the Real World
4. Demystifying Data Warehousing as a Service (DWaaS)

• Breakfast and Lunch provided!
• Free Parking!
• Networking with other Data Professionals!
• Vendor Booths from a variety of Pacific Northwest data service providers!
• Hosted Happy Hour the evening before the event!

Full abstracts and registration at: https://damapdx.wordpress.com/dama-day-2017

The workshops at this event will provide you knowledge and principles to use agile in your data warehouse and business intelligence projects. It introduces a modern method for agile data modeling, Data Vault 2.0, and includes a detailed, real world case study. We will also cover how the cloud has changed everything and how you can enable your agile data warehouse using Data Warehouse as a Service (DWaas) - built in the cloud, for the cloud.

All at a local location for $159 (less for students, members, and employees of member companies).

About the Speaker:

Kent Graziano is a Senior Technical Evangelist with Snowflake Computing and the author of The Data Warrior blog (http://kentgrazino.com). He is a certified Data Vault Master and certified Data Vault 2.0 practitioner. Kent has given hundreds or presentations, nationally and internationally - in 2014 he was voted one of the best presenters at OUGF14 in Helsinki Finland.

About DAMA Portland

The Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Administration Management Association has been serving the Portland data community since 1984. We are a not-for-profit, vendor independent, professional association dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise information and data resource management.

Our primary purpose is to promote the understanding, development and practice of managing data, information and knowledge resources as key enterprise assets.

The DAMA Portland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought provoking data-centric presentations that will make you more successful in your job. Please join me, the rest of the DAMA board, and other fellow lovers of data at this regular chapter meeting in downtown Portland.

Thanks for your support of local Data Education, we look forward to seeing you there!

In today’s age of analytics, businesses are demanding self-service access to their corporate data, while struggling to make sense of raw data at the source. In response to this, recent analyst reports have revealed a new form of BI architecture known as Governed Data Discovery. These architectures are immense data structures that, while able to address recent needs, are daunting for even large teams of BI professionals to build using traditional methods. However, with the use of automation software, these structures can be built and maintained by just one person with some data modeling experience. We will go into detail about some of the driving factors of Governed Data Discovery and explain how leading automation software can enable even small organizations to benefit from this approach.

What Attendees Will Learn from Presentation:

• The different factors driving Governed Data Discovery including the Gap between Business and IT.
• What is Governed Data discovery? What does this type of data architecture look like?
• How Automation software can address the challenges in building & maintaining such an architecture.

Schedule

8:30 – 9:00 am – Sign In
9:00 – 10:15 am – Presentation
10:15 – 10:30 am – Break, Chapter Announcements
10:30 – 11:30 am – Presentation continued

Cost

Free for Members!
$15 for Non-Members
$5 for Students with valid student ID
See our corporate members at damapdx.org

About DAMA Portland

The Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Administration Management Association has been serving the Portland data community since 1984. We are a not-for-profit, vendor independent, professional association dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise information and data resource management.

Our primary purpose is to promote the understanding, development and practice of managing data, information and knowledge resources as key enterprise assets.

The DAMA Portland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought provoking data-centric presentations that will make you more successful in your job. Please join me, the rest of the DAMA board, and other fellow lovers of data at this regular chapter meeting in downtown Portland.

Upcoming Presentations

July (20-Jul): Data Science and Predictive Analytics
September (21-Sep): Cartographic license and building maps that work
October (TBD): DAMA Day (Our annual, full day of data training)

Past Presentations

January: Advanced Data Visualization by Amit Manghani
February: Agile Data Warehousing, Building a Virtualized ODS by Kent Grazino
March: The Analytical Data Mart and The Customer Analytic Record by Dr. Bob Nisbet
April: Cloud Document Storage by David Howell
May: Semantic Data Mining and Deep Learning in Health Datasets by Dr. Dejing Dou

Thank you for your support of local Data Education, we look forward to seeing you there!

Get a full day of local data training. Register by midnight Sunday September 11th for early bird discounts. Student discount also available. See below for Details

Your local Data Management chapter has been putting on an annual data learning day for more than 10 years!
Breakfast and lunch provided.
More information and registration at www.damapdx.org

We will also be drawing for 2 free passes to Data Modeling Zone coming to Portland in October http://datamodelingzone.com/. An over $1500 value!

Summary

We live in a world of Big Data, trying to make sense of it to deliver Business Intelligence. We have the promise of NOSQL and Applied Data Science to deliver some solutions. In dealing with today's challenges we need some new and different ways of thinking. Do we still need Conceptual models? How do they continue to benefit us? What are the limitations of relational models, and how do we overcome them? What are the best strategies for preparing and presenting data model diagrams to support meaningful conversations with our business partners? How do our data modeling tools help? How is the data warehouse environment evolving? Are we beyond dimensional models? How do we work with NOSQL tools and schema-less databases? Do these environments still need data modeling? What is a Data Lake and how do we manage it?

Dr. Gordon Everest will explore these questions and provide some insight for dealing with issues surrounding the role of data modeling in the world we live in today. His presentation will provide some new strategies and approaches. His presentations are always lively and will challenge our thinking.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

• DATA MODELING – Beyond the basics, and beyond relational
• ADVANCED DATA MODELING CONCEPTS AND CONSTRUCTS
• NORMALIZATION – Myths. The biggest problem with ER/Relational/Object modeling.
• DATA MODEL PRESENTATION
• FOCUS ON DATA WAREHOUSING and more

Includes (but not limited to):

• Architecture of the Operational environment – ODS, staging (ETL), where is data cleansing?
• Dimensional modeling, fact and dimension tables, cube, star schema and snowflake ◦Fact tables and dimension tables - should they be normalized?
• Business Intelligence (BI), Analytics, data mining, OLAP
• And now the "Data Lake" (from Bill Inmon) or perhaps a "Data Swamp"!
• NOSQL – rationale and motivation, Schema-less or "schema on read"? ◦Type of Tools: Key value pair, multi-column, (directed?) graph, "document" (XML…)
• Data modeling in a NOSQL environment. Do we still need data modelers?
• Emerging role of the data analyst/scientist

Speaker

Dr. Gordon C. Everest is Professor Emeritus of MIS and Data Management in the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. He is actively engaged in the world of data modeling and data management, speaking to computer professional societies and consulting with large and small organizations. Early retirement has allowed him to focus on helping organizations improve their understanding and approach to data modeling. He continues to teach a course in advanced data modeling at the University of Minnesota. It is fully online and available to working professionals as well as students. (http://geverest.umn.edu). He is an astute observer and interpreter of developments and trends in information technology, data management, and particularly business data modeling.

Cost

Costs cover breakfast, lunch, facility rental and speaker travel costs. See our damapdx.org site for current list of corporate members.

Early Bird Registration (Before Midnight Sunday Sept 11th)

• $99 DAMA PDX Members and Employees of DAMA PDX Corporate Members
• $129 Non-Members
• $59 Students (with valid student id)

Regular Registration (Starting Monday Sept 12th)

• $129 DAMA PDX Members & Employees of DAMA PDX Corporate Members
• $149 Non-Members
• $79 Students (with valid student id)

About DAMA Portland

The DAMA Portland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought provoking data-centric presentations that will make you more successful in your job.

The Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Administration Management Association has been serving the Portland data community since 1984. We are a not-for-profit, vendor independent, professional association dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise information and data resource management. Our primary purpose is to promote the understanding, development and practice of managing data, information and knowledge resources as key enterprise assets.

Upcoming DAMA PDX Events

Upcoming DAMA PDX Metro Events
Free to DAMA Members and Employees of DAMA PDX Corporate Members

• October: "Influencing Business Partners" with May Loomis
• November: "The T-Shaped Data Professional – Achieving Data Management Goals by Other Means" with Alec Sharp (Clariteq Systems Consulting)
• January 2017: "Advanced Data Visualization" with Amit P. Manghani

Join James Montemagno from Xamarin once again for the third and final session of July's Xamarin series. Learn the techniques for making custom UI for different platforms targeted by your Xamarin App.

• WHEN:
  Thursday 07/17/2014
  6:00 p.m. Pizza
  6:30 p.m. Business and Intro Presentation
  7:00 p.m. Main Presentation
  ~8:30 p.m. After Words TBD

Join PADNUG to exercise the tools you saw at this week’s presentation to create a cross-platform application. Approximately six hours (10am – 4pm).

• Lunch included
• Hosted by Kelly White

Scott Hanselman, a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, will be speaking on .NET and other technology topics.

Many of you know Scott or have heard him speak. He is always both informative and entertaining. If you don't already subscribe to his blog, you should.

WebMD is hosting this event and will be providing lunch. It would really help our planning if you could send a quick e-mail to [email protected] if you plan to attend. This will help us plan for lunch.

The meeting will be in the large ballroom on the first floor. Parking is available on the west side of the building. Carpooling is encouraged.

General Schedule: 9:00 - start 10:00 - break 10:15 - restart 11:15 - end talk, open for questions 11:45 - break for lunch 1:00 - done and out

August 2008 Summer Artisans Fair!
When
Date(s): August 19th (Tuesday) & 20th (Wednesday)
Time(s): 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. both days
Location
Montgomery Park
2701 NW Vaughn Street
Portland, OR 97210
Details

Taking the weekdays by storm!

Flier Design: Sweet Bonnie
Vendors for This Event
Cerulea Bath and Body
2monkees
Muluk
Farmgirl Drygoods
Flower Pie Designs
Twilight and Filigree
B Hive Designs
Scrumptious Suds
Glass by Debra Klang
Phoebe Owens
Two Hearts Creations
ReFashioned by Lisa
Lunarcat Studios
PDX Softgoods
DOLCETTI
Gails Necessities
MOSS
The Darras
Octavine Illustration
hazeldrops eco fashion
Additional Vendor Info