Skills Learned
Change Management
Communication
Program Management
Business Intelligence
Data Modeling
Technology
What You’ll Study
Introduction to Business Intelligence
- History of Business Intelligence
- Business Intelligence Business Value and ROI
- Introduction to Data Warehousing
- Business Intelligence Lifecycle and Architecture
- Business Case for Business Intelligence
Organizing for Business Intelligence
- Business Intelligence Program vs. Business Intelligence Project
- Business Intelligence Sponsorship
- Enterprise Level vs. Departmental Level Business Intelligence
- BI Team Roles and Responsibilities
- Business Analytics Competency Centers/Centers of Excellence
- Data Governance and Change Management
- Communication and Promoting Business Intelligence
BI Development Phases and Methods Approaches
- The Major Phases of BI Program Delivery
- The Waterfall Approach to BI Program Management
- Agile Approaches to Business Intelligence Program Management
- BI Planning Phase Best Practices
- BI Implementation and Configuration Phase Best Practices
- BI Deployment Phase Best Practices
Data Warehousing
- Introduction and History of Data Warehousing
- Inmom Approach
- Kimball Approach
- Data Modeling Basics
- Metadata
- Big Data and Big Data Analytics Cloud-based BI and Data Warehousing
Data Quality and Architecture
- Data Quality Introduction
- Measuring Data Quality
- Poor Data Quality
- Improving Data Quality
- Disparate Data Sources
- Data Governance
- Master Data Management (MDM)
Business Intelligence Requirements Gathering
- Requirements Gathering Introduction
- Top-Down Requirements Gathering
- Bottom-Up Requirements Gathering
- Capture and Prioritize Requirements
- Agile Requirements Gathering Best Practices
- The Top 5 Categories of BI Requirements
Readiness for Business Intelligence and Maturity Models
- Business Intelligence Readiness Assessments
- Assessing Technology and Data
- Organizational Readiness Assessments
- Process and Procedures Readiness Assessments
- BA Competency Center/Center of Excellence and Readiness
- BI Maturity Models
Technology and Capability Review
- Modern BI Capabilities
- Selecting and Evaluating BI Technologies
- Selecting and Evaluating Data Warehouse Technologies Selecting and Evaluating Master Data Management Technologies
- BI Technology Disruptive Change
- BI Visualization Tools
