This article was written by a couple of authors and submitted to a conference that happened recently.  It walks through some of the conceptual modeling around Data Vault, as well as taking a look at Anchor Modeling, and common approaches.  It is really well written, and worth a read if you have the desire.

http://sais.aisnet.org/2012/JovanovicBojicic.pdf

By the way, I am happy to announce the next class that will be arriving in the On-Line training area:

Informatica ETL for Data Vault  – Implementation Best Practices

Those that have already purchased the fundamentals class will have the ability to purchase the new course first, and most likely will be given a discount.

*EVEN if you are already certified* the existing fundamentals class can really help you.  There are several brand new sections on sourcing problems and solutions, and targeting problems and solutions – focused on performance and tuning, regardless of ETL tool, or even if you are using SQL for loading.

Purchase the fundamentals class at: http://LearnDataVault.com/training