Realize greater value out of your information resources.

This course covers the BI life cycle from data sourcing and management to information delivery and use. Set yourself up for success by learning the basics of BI with a focus on planning and collaboration. With many moving parts-infrastructure, technology, analytics, dashboards-putting the pieces together effectively can be difficult. BI success happens when teams and stakeholders share common concepts, use consistent terminology, and contribute collectively to the BI vision. And the benefits of BI include new business capabilities for insight, forecasting, planning and strategy execution.

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Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Define the techniques and strategies that make up BI.
• Identify effective ways to deliver BI such as web, mobile, and desktop.
• List the common kinds of BI reporting.
• Understand performance management principles such as dashboards and KPIs.
• Apply business analyst principles including analytic modelling and data visualization.
• Understand advanced analytics concepts for data mining, predictive analytics and text analytics.
• List data management practices including profiling, cleansing and quality management.
• Outline data integration practices such as consolidation, virtualization and data warehousing (DW).