There is a new version of this course. Please see DataFlux Data Management Studio: Fast Track.

This course includes the majority of the content of both DataFlux Data Management Studio: Essentials and DataFlux Data Management Studio: Advanced. It introduces DataFlux Data Management Studio and expands your knowledge by discussing the following topics: data explorations and profiling, data jobs to perform data management tasks (such as data quality and entity resolution), data monitoring, usage of DataFlux Expression Engine language, custom metrics, macro variables, and process jobs.

The self-study e-learning includes:

• Annotatable course notes in PDF format.
• Virtual Lab time to practice.

• use data explorations
• create and review data profiles
• create data jobs for data improvement
• establish monitoring aspects for your data
• work with the DataFlux Expression Engine Language
• create and use custom metrics
• define and use macro variables
• create process jobs.

Formats available	Duration
Classroom:	4.0 days

Currently, there are no prerequisites for this course.

This course addresses DataFlux Data Management Studio, DataFlux Data Management Server software.

• introduction
• course flow

• introduction to DataFlux Data Management Studio
• Quality Knowledge Base (QKB) and reference sources
• data connections

• creating data collections (self-study)
• designing data explorations
• creating data profiles
• designing data standardization schemes

• introduction to data jobs
• data quality jobs
• data enrichment jobs (self-study)
• entity resolution jobs

• defining business rules
• data profiling with business rules and alerts
• data jobs with business rules
• data jobs with monitoring tasks

• multi-input and multi-output data jobs
• using data job references within a data job
• introduction to the DataFlux Data Management server

• overview of remaining course topics
• clean data, new repositories, and default macro variables

• introduction to DataFlux Expression Engine Language (EEL)
• data profiling using EEL
• working with the expression node: IF/ELSE statements
• working with the expression node: RETURN statement
• working with the expression node: Pushrow function (self-study)
• working with the expression node: grouping functionality (self-study)

• working with custom metrics
• working with macro variables
• using multiple locales in a data job (self-study)

• introduction to process jobs
• using variables in process jobs
• conditional processing, work tables, and events
• parallel processing in process jobs (self-study)

• how data is processed in a data job
• job optimization
• tips for building and testing jobs
• deploying jobs
• promoting jobs to production

• case study for "Essentials"
• case study for "Advanced"