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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) programme
  • Apply a BI metamodel that turns outcomes into actions
  • Extract and transform data from an operational database to a data warehouse
  • Exploit business analytics and performance measurement tools
  • Organise a Business Intelligence Consistency Center (BICC)
  • Integrate BI into your daily business decisions

Course Benefits

Setting up a business intelligence programme takes more than just installing the technology. A successful BI programme 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 process to design and implement an effective BI programme that maximises your organisation's business opportunities.

Who Should Attend

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

RealityPlus
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 BI metamodel
  • Analysing successful systems to identify what works
  • Constructing a road map for building and implementing a BI programme
  • Translating management directives into defined outcomes
  • Turning defined outcomes into data collection specifications
  • Organising a Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC)
  • Incorporating BI tools to identify business trends
  • Mapping operational data to a data warehouse

Related Courses

  • 211 Introduction to Business Analysis
  • 212 Building an Effective Business Case
  • 315 Developing User Requirements
  • 218 User Requirements for Software Development
  • 381 Business Process Re-engineering
  • 284 Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • 195 Power Excel: Analysing Data
  • 196 Introduction to Statistics

 
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   Introduction to Business Intelligence

Upcoming Dates

17 - 19 Sep, 2008
London
17 - 19 Dec, 2008
London
18 - 20 Mar, 2009
London
10 - 12 Jun, 2009
London

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Introduction to Business Intelligence: Designing a Successful BI Program

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

Defining Business Intelligence (BI)

  • Components of a BI programme
  • 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 Road Map

Applying BI to solve business problems

  • Assessing the business problem
  • Distinguishing 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

Iterating the BI metamodel

  • Starting BI with simple processes
  • Proposing secondary uses for transactional data
  • Scaling the BI process to fit your organisational needs
  • Enabling repeatable and successful BI processes

Discovering 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 organisation
  • Identifying critical and variable attributes of a BI programme

Connecting processes

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

Designing and Planning BI Processes

Defining business requirements

  • Generating an initial data warehouse matrix
  • Aggregating business processes
  • Selecting dimensions

Modelling the dimensional business process

  • Navigating facts and dimensions
  • Strengthening relationships
  • Creating the appropriate schema
  • Traversing hierarchies

Constructing the data warehouse

  • Extracting data from multiple sources
  • Transforming data during migration
  • Loading data into a data warehouse

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 cubes
  • Examining the characteristics of a data mine
  • Reviewing data mining tools

Leveraging performance measurement tools

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

Organising a Business Intelligence Consistency Center (BICC)

  • Promoting expertise within your organisation
  • Producing a BICC functional checklist
  • Clarifying the roles of the BICC
  • Organising the BICC

Putting BI to Work for You

  • Applying the BI process across the organisation
  • 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
 
 

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