
Practical Data Modelling

Learn data modelling concepts to understand your data – and ensure a shared view across your organisation.
What is data modelling?
Data modelling is a fundamental practice to identify and organise the data an organisation collects. Data modelling concepts help you reach a common understanding of data and its relationships – so that you can successfully implement business or IT projects, design databases, integrate systems, and resolve data quality issues.
- 4 live instructor sessions
- Hard copy workbook
- Certificate of completion
What you’ll learn
If you want to confidently develop and review data models, our latest course will teach you data modelling concepts and practical skills. Join our live, online training over four days to understand:
- The different levels of abstraction for a data model
- How to create your own data model from existing business artefacts
- How to understand data models and ask the right questions
- How to design a data warehouse and a data vault
- How to recognise if your data requirements are captured
- How business data is implemented in technical solutions
- Learn how techniques like normalisation help to create a resilient structure for your data
Training outcomes
This course will give you confidence to:
- Understand what a data model is saying
- Ask questions about a data model and its content
- Build your own data model
- Recognise if your data requirements are captured
- Understand how business data should be implemented in technical solutions
This data modelling training is aligned with DAMA’s Data Management Body of Knowledge – DMBoK V2 – which ensures you are drawing on international best practice.
Enrol now
- Virtual
- 4 x 4 hour session
- Nov: 14,15,21,22
A$1900 +gst
All sessions are
9am to 1 pm or 1 to 5pm AEST/AEDT
Join hundreds of successful students from leading organisations
What you get
4 x 4 hours live study sessions with expert trainers
Hard copy workbooks
Certificate of completion
Networking with like-minded professionals
What we cover
Session 1
- Data Management Context
- Relational Modelling and Normalisation
- Entity Modelling
- Reading data models
Session 2
- Data attributes
- Foreign keys
- Using data codes
- Modelling from primary artefacts
- Case study
Session 3
- Subtypes and Roles
- Known and Unknown
- Keys
- Time and History
- Case study
Session 4
- Denormalisation
- Packages
- Enterprise alignment
- Tools
- Data warehouse modelling
- Data vault modelling
Why Data Modelling training?
- Improve shared understanding of data and confidence in handling data assets.
- Reduce costs and risks for IT and business projects
- Improve effectiveness of systems integration
- Resolve data quality issues
- Improve database design
Who is this course for?
This course is suitable for those working in or alongside data modelling. It’s also a great way to train for a career move into data modelling. While we teach data modelling concepts from the ground up, some knowledge of data management and DMBoK – such as our Data Management Overview course – is helpful but not essential.

Are you a data modelling master?

Our credentials
- One of only four Registered Education Providers with DAMA International and the only one based in Australia or Asia-Pacific.
- Our data management training has been running for 10+ years and has trained hundreds of students.
- Our data management consulting business has operated for 15 years and contributed to some of Australia’s biggest data management projects across seven capital cities.
Learn from the experts

David Wiebe | CDMP Master
David is a DAMA Master level Certified Data Management Professional with over 30 years of experience in data management. He’s also a Director and Data Architecture Lead at Robinson Ryan.

Graham Wilson | CDMP Practitioner
Graham is a creative enterprise business architect with a strong foundation in business data architecture. He has led the architecture of many nationally significant government projects in Australia and New Zealand, over 32 years.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which time and time zone does the course operate in?
The course runs from 9am – 1pm AEST (UTC/GMT +10).
Can I join if I’m located outside Australia?
Absolutely, as long as you can join the live sessions, you can join the course. If you are outside of Australia and have a group wanting to take the course, we can modify the course timing to suit. Contact us to discuss.
What platform does the course run on?
We use Zoom for the live, online sessions.
Do I get a discount as a DAMA member?
If you are a member of DAMA Australia, you can claim a discount on this course. Please get in contact with your DAMA chapter or log into the portal to access the discount code.
How can I pay for the course?
You can either pay by credit card or request an invoice.
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