The Certified Big Data Professional (CBDP) designation is a professional certification for individuals with extensive Big Data experience.

Big Data includes but not limited to Data As A Service (DaaS), massive data, related technologies, and applications. Nowadays, professionals from academia and industry are exploring potential values of big data in various scenarios. New computing platforms such as Cloud Computing, Mobile Internet, and Social Networking are leveraged to create innovations around big data.

From government perspective, the US Government declared a $200M budget to launch its Big Data Initiative on March 29, 2013. On July 25, 2012, The European Union announced Big Data for You. From industry perspective, leading software and Internet companies such as IBM, SAP, Oracle, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu have been building products and solutions arpund big data.

Enterprises are transforming their roles from data holders to data managers and consumers. Minning data to generate values requires scientific methods and technologies. However, there are few professionals who have systematic ways of addressing big data. Accenture predicts that at least 140,000 big data professionals should be added to the talent pool in the United States. Meanwhile, at least 1.5M professionals are needed to help analyze data and make effective decisons for enterprises. Gartner also indicated that 75% of data scientist positions will be hard to fill in.

Services Society (S2) has been leading the platform for exchanging information and knowledge on the latest service-centric technologies and solutions. S2 has been Co-Sponsoring the International Conference on Big Data (BigData). S2 has also sponsored the Services Transactions on Big Data (STBD), which is the leading journal on big data's research and developments. In order to address the shortage of Big data professionals, Services Society led the creation of Body of Knowledge on Big Data (BoK-BD) in 2014.
 In order to promote the emerging technology trend and satisfy industry’s requirements, the Services Society (S2) has identified the key areas of body of knowledge for enabling big data solutions.  The certificate “Certified Big Data Professional” is created to certify a professional who has met the Certification Board’s educational, experience, examination, and ethical requirements, and has committed to providing big data services that adhere to the Certification Board’s standards of excellence.

 All issued certificates of the CDBP are registered in blockchain. You can access them through a QR code or certificate number. The certificates are subject to the Certification Board’s renewal requirements for every two years.

Part A: data warehouse, data minning, machine learning, data analysis algorithm, requirement-driven data modeling, data-driven business decision making

Part B: distributed system (e.g. Hadoop, Hive, Storm, Spark), scalable database programming, Web programming, mobile programming

Part C: data warehouse design, cloud storage, computing architecture (e.g. SOA, Cloud), ETL architecture, distributed system architecture (e.g. Hadoop, Hive, Storm, Spark), system redesign, independent product design.

Based on a deep analysis of your organization or customer’s pain points, you design a big data solution to address the identified pain points by leveraging the technologies and digital transformation methods.  The project report includes but not limited to project title, target users, customers’ pain points, big data solution, values to customers, and illustrations in customer engagements.  

It is noted that the project report can be replaced by a published or accepted paper of Services Society sponsored conferences. As the Services Society’s flagship conference, the Services Conference Federation (SCF) includes the following 10 collocated service-oriented sister conferences: International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), International Conference on Big Data (BigData), International Conference on AI & Mobile Services (AIMS), and World Congress on Services (SERVICES), International Conference on Internet of Things (ICIOT), International conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC), International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE), and International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC). Started from SCF 2018, the conference proceedings have been published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer International Publishing AG. Currently the Abstracting and Indexing services covered by Springer’s data feeds for LNCS proceedings include ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in Web of Science), Engineering Index EI (Compendex and Inspec databases), DBLP, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus, and ZBlMath.

• Big Data

• Data Warehouse

• Data As A Service

• Data driven business

• Services Computing

• Web services

• Data mining

• Data Analysis

• Data Modeling

• Cloud Data Storage

• Data Intelligence

First time: $300 (including CBDP Application Fee and an electronic certificate registered on blockchain) per certificate;
CBDP Application Fee: This fee is required to create your CBDP application and verify progress towards meeting its requirements. Please note the exam fee is included. This fee is non-refundable and non-transferable .

 Renew (every two years): $199 per certificate; a published or accepted paper of SCF conferences within 2 years;
CBDP Renewal Fee: This fee is required to create your CBDP renewal and verify progress towards meeting its requirements. Please note the paper publication fee is excluded. This fee is non-refundable and non-transferable.

 Training Cost: $1500 per certificate. Please note the CBDP Application Fee or CBDP Renewal Fee are excluded. This fee is non-refundable and non-transferable.

The Services Society (S2) is a non-profit professional organization that promotes worldwide research and technical collaboration in services innovations among academia and industry professionals. The goal of S2 is to foster Building the Modern Services Industry through Services Computing technologies and business innovations.

 This scope of Services Computing covers the whole lifecycle of services innovation that includes business componentization, services modeling, services creation, services realization, services annotation, services deployment, services discovery, services composition, services delivery, service-to-service collaboration, services monitoring, services optimization, as well as services management.

 The enabling technology suite includes Web services, service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing, artificial intelligence, cognitive computing, big data, internet of things, edge computing, blockchain, mobile internet, metaverse, business consulting methodology and utilities, business process modeling, transformation and integration.

 Its community members are from industry and academia with common interests. The Services Society has formed 10 Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to support technology and domain specific professional activities.

 S2 is registered in the USA as a "501(c)(3) organization", which means that it is an American tax-exempt nonprofit organization. S2 collaborates with other professional organizations to sponsor or co-sponsor conferences and to promote an effective services curriculum in colleges and universities. The S2 initiates and promotes a "Services University" program worldwide to bridge the gap between industrial needs and university instruction. You can visit ServicesSociety.org to get more details.