Understanding Business Intelligence

Understanding Business Intelligence

The participant is provided a sound overview of Data Warehousing concepts and theory along with a practical grounding in the critical success factors, costs/benefits, and resources required to implement a strategic decision support environment for Business Intelligence. The business drivers will be described along with practical examples of Business Intelligence applications. This is an excellent overview for business executives and IT managers.

Objectives

Understand the “Best Practices” and business implications of data warehousing
Understand the different roles and design considerations of the data warehouse and data mart
Understand fundamental differences between tactical and strategic usage of the technology
Become familiar with the guidelines for implementing Business Intelligence
Understand the skill requirements and team dynamics
Understand the critical success factors and goals for a data warehouse project.

Duration ½ day

Prerequisite None

Course Format Lecture and group discussion

Instructor Claudia Imhoff or Jonathan Geiger or David Gleason or Joyce Norris-Montanari