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Business Analytics

M3 TDWI Introduction to Business Analytics

May 10th, 2010

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

CBIP

Prerequisite: None

Mark Peco

CBIP

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This introductory-level course provides an overview of the concepts, skills, and terminology of business analytics. Business analytics is at the forefront of business intelligence. It is through analytics that business managers and analysts achieve the insights that lead to informed and innovative business decisions. Yet analytics is a complex field that involves many disciplines ranging from statistics to data visualization. This course provides an overview of those disciplines and describes the role of each in business analytics and BI systems.

You Will Learn

Why an understanding of statistics is critical to analytic systems
Why it is important to understand the needs and roles of consumers of analytics
How business measurement and analytics are related and how they are different
How analytics is used in business management and decision making
How to make informed presentation and visualization choices for analytic systems
How portfolio management concepts support analytic systems and components

Geared To

Anyone new to business intelligence; BI teams that need to develop a common base of concepts and terminology; BI team members who need to understand the roles and responsibilities of others on their team; anyone with a role in definition and development of business analytics systems