AI is only as good as the data you can unlock: connecting systems, standardising them and making them work together.
In every organisation, data is spread across dozens of systems. Every serious AI application therefore starts with integration: unlocking sources, connecting them and bringing them together reliably.
Interoperability — systems that speak each other's language through standards — makes your solutions future-proof. You learn to choose between integration patterns and to set up the connection securely as well.
Integration used to be schema work: figuring out field by field, by hand, what matches what. AI takes over most of that translation — a model infers the relationship between two sources faster than you can open the mapping document.
What takes its place is harder. Models also want the sources you used to leave alone: contracts, emails, minutes. And they place a new demand on your data — not merely readable by a system, but intelligible to a model, context and meaning included.
You design the data integration for an AI application in your own organisation — from source to model.
An information specialist unlocks three document systems into a single searchable knowledge layer.
A commercial analyst connects the CRM to an AI tool that flags sales opportunities — with proper authorisation in place.
A logistics employee introduces a single message standard with chain partners — and suddenly the forecasts do add up.
You take this module the way you take the whole programme: classes every other week on Friday and Saturday, with a study load of 15–20 hours per week, of which 10–15 hours are self-study. The teaching is a mix of classroom lessons, practice-based learning, blended learning and working groups or study teams — taught by lecturers who practise the profession themselves every day.
You conclude each theme with a professional product or a technical solution based on a real situation in your own work, which you discuss in an assessment with the lecturer. This way your portfolio grows with real work — and your employer benefits directly.
The format is not new: the teaching approach and the AI modules have been running for three years at the AI Proeflokaal — with business, with government, and across part-time modules and minors. What you meet in class here has already been worn in elsewhere.
After this module you deliver an integration design for a real AI application, including a security section.
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