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Business Intelligence Training

Business Intelligence TrainingThe Business Intelligence Training will show you 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 a true Master in Business Intelligence and join us for this Top Training.

Day 1, The Business Aspects

Day 2,  The Technical Aspects

9:00 – 12:30h

9:00 – 12:30h
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
 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

Lunch

Lunch

13:30 – 17:00h

13:30 – 17:00h
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
 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 BI 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.

>> “I really appreciated the best practice sharing among participants and group participations” and the trainer addressing the participants expectations”

>> “I really appreciated the 2 days theory, concepts and practical applications”

About the expert

 

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 Passionned, the independent analyst group and is co-author of the BI Tool Survey.

 

Your benefits

  1. In two days you will get the latest insights in BI
  2. Very practical, direct applicable to your daily business
  3. Letting you achieve success with business intelligence
  4. Become a true master of business intelligence

 

Other details

 

When? 2012 June, Monday 4th to Tuesday 5th
Where? Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Dorint Hotel Amsterdam-Airport
Your investment for two days € 1.075 – (see the ‘Order’ page for the price in dollars)

 

Are you interested in this BI training?

Places are limited to 15 delegates so, if interested, you should book early.

Register for the Business Intelligence Training