The Business Intelligence Training will show you very useful best practices, the most important current trends and share with you the latest insights into business intelligence, KPI’s, data visualization, data quality, BI projectmanagement, BI success, big data, business analytics and mobile BI. Become in just two days a true Master in Business Intelligence and join us for this unique business intelligence (BI) training. Business as well as technical aspects covered.
Day 1: The Business Aspects
During this day you will learn all the important business aspects in relation to Business Intelligence & Business Analytics.
International Business Intelligence Trends
- BI in the Cloud: what are the benefits, the possibilities and the impossibilities? When should you use it?
- Mobile BI: will everyone going to be connected to BI?
- BIG DATA: a buzz or big business or both?
- Business Analytics (BA): are the vendors trying to create the next hype?
- Group discussion
Measuring Less & Knowing More
- “Core performance metrics often fail to register trouble on the horizon” (Harvard)
- What do KPI’s really measure?
- How do they link to KRI’s and PI’s?
- KPI assignment
How to create world class intelligence in your dashboards & reports?
- Find it, create it, use it, benefit from it!
- Increase your productivity & Return on Investment (ROI)
- Analytical Assignment
Business Intelligence projectmanagement & governance
- Making the business case for BI
- The 10 steps to success: a BI project methodology for success
- Scoping: agile BI & scrum
- The most important pitfalls
- What should be in your projectplan?
- A Business Intelligence governance & maturity model
- Assignment
How to increase organizational Performance (Case Study)
- Ahold Case, winner of the Dutch Business Intelligence Award
- Critical success factors involved in achieving better financial performance with Business Intelligence
- Group Assignment
Day 2: The technical aspects
During this day of the Business Intelligence training you will learn all the important technical aspects in relation to Business Intelligence & Business Analytics.
Data Visualization & Data Quality
- From data to actionable information
- How does 3D work on 2D devices?
- When to use lines, bars, bubbles, animation and pies
- Visualization assignment
- Why is Data Quality important?
- Methods for improving the data quality
- Data profiling tools
- Data Quality and the business
Real-time Business intelligence
- We must integrate BI into the Web, but the ‘Web is dead’ (Wired)
- Difficulties when Searching the Web for relevant information
- Some really good example of real-time invisible BI (booking.com)
- Assignment real-time BI
How to create a sustainable Business Intelligence Framework?
- Reusability: Object orientation is back
- Usability: The End of the End-user?
- Role Based Access
- Superior performance
- Creating BI apps in a few hours
Choosing between different Business Intelligence Architectures and tools for business intelligence & analytics
- Data Vault, Star Schema and Snow Flake
- Most Important Selection Criteria and Why
- Major steps in the selection process
- Research Findings on BI Tools
- Architecture Assignment
Who should register to the training?
This Business Intelligence training is highly interactive and is developed for BI consultants, IT managers, BI architects, BI managers, Directors of Finance, managers of performance management, data warehouse managers and for everyone who is interested in being more successful with business intelligence and dashboards.
Are you interested in this BI training?
Places are limited to 15 delegates so, if interested, you should book early.
Daan van Beek is an independent consultant and author of four business intelligence books, numerous articles and a well known speaker on the topic of ‘the intelligent organisation’ at congresses. He works for 
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