3-Day Intensive Course for Technical Professionals
3 Intense Days
7 Hours per Day (Split into two 3.5-hour sessions)
Learning Path Visual
Your hands-on journey from raw data to monetizable assets:
Day 1: Architecting for Value: Data Value Chains & Infrastructure Setup
Map your data’s value potential and build the backend to support monetization: pipelines, APIs, and governance.
Day 2: Engineering the Flow: Pipelines, Products & Insights
Use real tools (Spark, Kafka, Airflow, BigQuery) to create, package, and expose data products for internal and external value.
Day 3: Monetization Engines: APIs, Marketplaces & Security at Scale
Build and publish data services, implement DaaS APIs, and integrate monetization layers like billing, privacy controls, and licensing logic.
Course Overview
Data is the new oil, but only if it’s refined. This course turns raw technical skill into business value. Learn how to build monetizable data assets, expose them through APIs and data products, and deploy them at scale using modern cloud and open-source tools.
You’ll go beyond analytics into data engineering for monetization, including:
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Building monetizable pipelines
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Creating and exposing data services
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Leveraging open data marketplaces
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Embedding privacy, consent, and billing controls
Designed for engineers, developers, and architects, this course bridges the gap between backend systems and business models.
What’s Inside Each Day
Day 1: Architecting for Value: Data Value Chains & Infrastructure Setup
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Identify monetization-ready data assets in your organization
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Understand direct vs indirect monetization paths (productization, internal optimization, external APIs)
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Set up environments for scalable data operations (Docker, Airflow, Spark clusters, Cloud functions)
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Build your monetization infrastructure:
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Data lakes vs data warehouses (Delta Lake, BigQuery)
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Data governance frameworks (GDPR, DMBOK)
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Data catalogs (Apache Atlas, OpenMetadata)
Tools: Apache Spark, Docker, Airflow, Delta Lake, BigQuery
Focus: Architecture • Infrastructure • Value Mapping
Day 2: Engineering the Flow: Pipelines, Products & Insights
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Build real-time and batch data pipelines for monetizable outcomes
(Kafka ➜ Spark ➜ BigQuery ➜ API)
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Transform raw data into data products:
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Visualize for consumption and integration:
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Package assets for reuse and delivery (Parquet, Arrow, API responses)
Tools: Kafka, Spark, dbt, Power BI, Kibana, FastAPI
Focus: Pipelines • Packaging • Insight Delivery
Day 3: Monetization Engines: APIs, Marketplaces & Security at Scale
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Build and deploy monetization-ready APIs (FastAPI + Swagger + rate-limiting + billing)
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Integrate with marketplaces (Snowflake Data Marketplace, Dawex, Azure Data Share)
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Add authentication, access control, and usage metering (OAuth2, JWT, API gateways)
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Explore advanced monetization models:
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Address privacy, IP, and licensing concerns programmatically (GDPR tags, anonymization pipelines)
Tools: FastAPI, Swagger, Stripe/Billing APIs, OpenPolicyAgent, Snowflake
Focus: APIs • Security • Licensing • Automation
Course Goals
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
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Identify, extract, and package monetizable datasets
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Build scalable data pipelines optimized for reuse and distribution
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Expose data products via secure, measurable APIs
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Integrate billing, metering, and licensing logic into data services
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Deploy data monetization workflows in production-grade cloud environments
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Navigate privacy, compliance, and ethical frameworks with technical confidence
Who Should Take This Course?
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Data engineers looking to evolve from pipelines to products
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Backend developers exploring API-driven monetization
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DevOps engineers deploying monetization and metering workflows
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Cloud architects building multi-tenant data platforms
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ML engineers preparing enriched features as a monetizable asset
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Tech leads and CTOs developing data-centric business models
Class Reference: TID-40
Form Updated on: 06/16/2025 (Version 1)
Last Modified on: 06/16/2025
Program Note
The course is updated in real-time with new APIs, tools, and frameworks to stay ahead in the data economy
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5 Ways in Which Big Data Can Help Leverage Customer Data
Data monetization success begins with three key concepts
Big Data Monetization Lessons from Zillow
Search Results monetization
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Airbnb: Lessons on Digital, Startups, Big Data and Disrupting Markets
Uber-fication: Lessons from Uber in Economics, Digital, Risk, and Analytics
Chief Data Officer Toolkit: Leading the Digital Business Transformation – Part 1
How to monetize your mobile app
From Big Data to Big Profits, Success with Data and Analytics – Google Play
Behind China’s $1 Trillion Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order – The New York Times
Strategies for Monetizing Big Data
Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics Of Open Source | TechCrunch
How will Big Data companies monetize data in 2018?
Determining the Economic Value of Data
Top 5 API Monetization Models | API Business Models | Nordic APIs |
API Business Models
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Asymmetric Business Models in WebRTC – The New Dial Tone
How to achieve digital transformation — with CIO as linchpin
Center for Information Systems Research – MIT Sloan School of Management
Digital Business Models « Center for Information Systems Research – MIT Sloan School of Management
Digital Design « Center for Information Systems Research – MIT Sloan School of Management
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Developing Data Products | Coursera
Five Questions that Define Your #DigitalTransformation | @ThingsExpo #DX #IoT #SmartCities – Tanjo
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