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Introduction to Business Intelligence: Designing a Successful BI Program

 
Course: 901   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Design, implement and refine a business intelligence (BI) solution
  • Apply a multitier BI process that turns outcomes into actions
  • Extract and transform data from an operational database to a data warehouse
  • Exploit business analytics and performance measurement tools
  • Organize a Business Intelligence Consistency Center (BICC)
  • Integrate BI into your daily business decisions

Course Benefits

Setting up a business intelligence program takes more than just installing the technology. A successful BI program involves a set of concepts and methods designed to improve the business decision-making process by putting targeted information into the hands of those who need it most. This course provides a multitier process to design and implement an effective BI solution that maximizes your organization's business opportunities.

Who Should Attend

Anyone interested in implementing a BI program in their organization, including program and project managers, business and statistical analysts, and marketing directors. Prior BI experience is not needed.

Course Workshop

An interactive and evolving case study immerses you in a challenging environment where you explore the concepts and methods behind a business intelligence implementation. Activities include:
  • Applying a multitier BI process
  • Analyzing successful systems to identify what works
  • Building a simple BI system
  • Combining simple systems to create a complex BI solution
  • Creating an information flow diagram and business rules
  • Organizing a Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC)
  • Incorporating BI tools to evaluate the quality of data
  • Mapping operational data to a data warehouse

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1-800-THE-TREE (1-800-843-8733)
TRAINING YOU CAN TRUST
 
 

Introduction to Business Intelligence: Designing a Successful BI Program

 
Course: 901   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 
Course 901 Content
 

Defining Business Intelligence (BI)

  • Components of a BI solution
  • Mapping the business intelligence process
  • Identifying the business needs for BI
  • New BI taxonomy
  • BI-specific management issues
  • Driving business agility and efficiency

Building a BI Framework

Applying BI to solve business problems

  • Assessing the business problem
  • Identifying major components of a BI process
  • Focusing on pertinent information using the BI process
  • Stating desired outcome for a given situation
  • Overcoming common BI challenges

Building from the simple to the complex

  • Starting BI with simple processes
  • Combining processes to solve complex problems
  • Scaling the BI process to fit your organizational needs
  • Enabling repeatable and successful BI processes

Discovering BI possibilities

  • Listing the major components of a BI system
  • Comparing and contrasting the attributes of an existing BI system using a BI matrix checklist
  • Reviewing successful systems
  • Selecting capabilities for your organization
  • Identifying critical and variable attributes of a BI system

Connecting BI processes

  • Realizing the desired outcome from a specific organizational situation
  • Targeting the process to achieve the desired outcome
  • Deriving actions and decisions from the Outcome Tier

Designing and Planning BI Processes

Transitioning from the Knowledge Tier to the Information Tier

  • Architecting the information flow model
  • Identifying information flow stages
  • Applying the knowledge framework

Migrating from the Information Tier to the Data Tier

  • Articulating the business rules
  • Profiling the data
  • Classifying the data domains

Extracting and transforming data from the operational database to the data warehouse

  • Comparing and contrasting operational databases and data warehouses
  • Migrating data to the data warehouse
  • Testing Extract Transform and Load (ETL) tools

Implementing and Fine Tuning the BI Solution

Evaluating business analytic tools

  • Selecting criteria for business analytics
  • Exploring online analytic processing (OLAP) tools
  • Slicing and dicing your data using multidimensional analysis
  • Defining the characteristics of a data mine
  • Reviewing data mining tools

Leveraging performance measurement tools

  • Extracting information using dashboards
  • Assessing the current state of your business with key performance indicators (KPIs)
  • Communicating to stakeholders through scorecards

Organizing a Business Intelligence Consistency Center (BICC)

  • Promoting expertise within your organization
  • Creating a BICC functional checklist
  • Defining the roles of the BICC
  • Organizing the BICC

Putting BI to Work for You

  • Applying the BI process across the organization
  • Making predictive analytics work for your bottom line
  • Blending BI process into daily management activities
 
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Introduction to Business Intelligence: Designing a Successful BI Program Tuition

 
Course: 901   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,250 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,245 10-Day Pass
$ 1,665 Training Passport
$ 1,830 Flex-Pass
$ 2,095 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,025 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,000 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

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