JCK - A Veteran-Owned Small Business		 EXCELLENCE IN DATA ARCHITECTURE

since 1989

America Support You		 4348 Pine Grove Ave
Fort Gratiot MI USA
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Business Event Analysis & Modeling (BEAM™)

BEAM™ for Decision Support Systems

Extended Relational Analysis (ERA™)

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What is User Focused Data Architecture? 		Extended Relational Analysis has helped thousands of organizations streamline their application development by strengthening the weakest link in the cycle: communications between the users and developers. If you want to put that experience to work in your environment – whatever your environment might be – then sign up for a class, or contact us for more information.

JCK Principal Roger Thomas was trained in Extended Relational Analysis by Gerry himself, and eventually took over ERA instruction at Relational Systems’ classroom. JCK has taught and used ERA across the continent for nearly 20 years.

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JCK ERA Course Offerings
Class Duration Summary
ERA™ Overview 0.5 days Introduction to ERA concepts. Suitable for anyone, targeted toward users, managers, and the curious.
ERA™ Workshop 3 days Complete course in how to use ERA to build a user-focused data architecture. Suitable for designers, lead developers, and power users.

 
(ERA is optimized for designing data structures to support transactional systems. If you need a decision support system such as a data mart or data warehouse, our BEAM for Decision Support Systems designed for that purpose. For a summary of the difference, contact us or read our article Transactional and Decision Support Systems: the Data Structure difference.)
 

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Since 1989, JCK has been devoted to teaching and implementing the principles of User-Focused Data Architecture. UFDA is based on the principle that the users are the data experts in any organization. Sound data architecture should focus on extracting the user's knowledge, clarifying ambiguous defintions, and building understandable data structures. These definitions and structures serve as the basis for system development. The first and most well known UFDA technique is Extended Relational Analysis ™ (ERA), which has been proven for decades. More recent techniques include Business Event Analysis & Modeling ™ (BEAM), which is useful for both Transactional Systems (BEAM TSS) and Decision Support Systems (BEAM DSS).