Setting up a business intelligence (BI) 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 maximises your organisation's business opportunities.

• Implement the key elements of a successful business intelligence (BI) program
• Apply a BI meta model that turns outcomes into actions
• Extract and transform data
• Exploit business analytics and performance measurement tools
• Organize a Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC)

Learning Level: Advanced

Duration: 5day(s)

• Mapping the business intelligence process
• Making the business case for BI
• Identifying the barriers to BI implementation
• New BI terminology
• Six challenges of BI

• Evaluating business readiness for BI
• Assessing BI maturity levels
• Business analysis and the BI road map
• Stating desired outcome for a given situation
• Overcoming common BI challenges

1. Enabling and facilitating technologies for BI
2. Structured vs. unstructured data
3. Identifying critical and variable attributes

• Aligning with management standards and strategy
• Protecting your data
• Measuring data quality
• Integrating enterprise architecture and BI

• Investigating the business advantages of strategic vs. tactical organisational situation
• Starting BI with outcome-driven processes
• Articulating well-formed outcomes

• Realizing the desired outcome from a specific organisational situation
• Targeting the process to achieve the desired outcome
• Deriving actions and decisions from the desired outcome
• Dealing with data
• Top-down vs. Bottom-up data analysis
• Establishing a measure of data quality
• Designing standardized business metadata

• Selecting source data
• OLAP vs. OLTP
• Extracting data from multiple sources
• Loading data into a data warehouse