FDST-BDS case studies
FDST-BDS · Put your knowledge to work in context.
FDST-BDS is a professional certification for data practitioners who want to demonstrate breadth across the full data management lifecycle rather than depth in a single tool. It suits data stewards, data architects, analytics engineers, BI developers, and data quality or governance leads who already work with data platforms and need a credential that maps to recognised data management practice areas. The FDST-BDS case studies are 5 cases and about 3,590 words.
1Two Definitions of 'Active Policyholder' and a Friday Deadline
Northline Mutual, a specialty insurer formed from a merger 18 months ago, has two groups claiming accountability for the Policyholder data domain. Finance defines an active policyholder as anyone with a policy in force or inside a 31-day grace period; Sales excludes grace-period records until premium is received.
906 words, about 5 min2A Green Data Quality Scorecard After 2,800 Misrouted Orders
Halbrook Outfitters runs a warehouse-fed fulfilment dashboard that 40 planners use daily. The data quality scorecard reports 99.2% completeness on 14 critical data elements and has been green for three quarters.
639 words, about 3 min3Self-Service BI, Twelve Personal Data Columns, Six Weeks to Go-Live
Corvant Bank is deploying a self-service BI layer over its customer warehouse for 1,800 users across six countries. The privacy office classified 12 columns as personal data, including national ID, date of birth, and full address.
688 words, about 3 min4Parallel Order Systems, Duplicate Revenue, and Status Running Backwards
Tessera Logistics ingests order events from two order-capture systems: a legacy OMS delivering a nightly full extract, and a new cloud OMS streaming hourly change-data-capture through Kafka. During an 11-week parallel run both systems are live; orders created in the cloud app are replicated to the legacy system by middleware with a four-hour lag.
646 words, about 3 min5Probabilistic Matching, 4,100 Merges, 900 Complaints
Meridian Health Plan's MDM hub matches members across an enrollment system, a claims system, and a provider portal. The probabilistic match threshold is 0.85 with no manual review queue.
711 words, about 4 min