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Introduction to Business Intelligence: Designing a Successful BI Program

Course: 901   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
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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
  • 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 multitier process to design and implement an effective BI solution 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.

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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
  • Analysing 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
  • Organising a Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC)
  • Incorporating BI tools to evaluate the quality of data
  • Mapping operational data to a data warehouse

Course 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 organisational 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 organisation
  • Identifying critical and variable attributes of a BI system
Connecting BI 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
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
Organising a Business Intelligence Consistency Center (BICC)
  • Promoting expertise within your organisation
  • Creating a BICC functional checklist
  • Defining 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
Course Schedule
17 - 19 Sep, 2008
London
17 - 19 Dec, 2008
London
18 - 20 Mar, 2009
London
 
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