Business Intelligence Fundamental

Learning Objectives: Knowledge of Business Intelligence fundamentals, how to assess opportunities to enhance an enterprise business intelligence, and understand the key facets of business cases for a successful Business Intelligence initiative. Learn the six steps to launching a successful Business Intelligence project, along with techniques to avoid typical pitfalls (with tips in Schema choice, Data sourcing, Vendor selection, performance tuning, Data mining, Extranets, etc). Understanding of techniques to manage data quality, privacy and security

Bill Chadwick, PMI

40 hours

Report Development and Deployment using Open Source

Open Source Reporting allows organizations to easily access, format, and distribute information to employees, customers, and partners. Reporting provides access to information in relational, OLAP, or XML-based data sources, and delivers output in popular formats including Adobe PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, Rich Text Format, or plain text. Comprehensive formatting capabilities give report designers the ability to highlight exceptions, create groupings, and add totals and subtotals. The course focuses on the knowledge and hands-on skills needed to create, customize, deploy and secure reports. Labs emphasize report layout and organization, data source parameterization, grouping, calculations, conditional formatting and charting.

Doug Vucevic, M. Eng

40 hours

Microsoft Data Warehouse Using SQL 2005 Server

The goal of the course is to teach how to design and build a successful Microsoft DW/BI system. The course will provide Microsoft-specific detailed guidance for working through the data warehouse lifecycle, from requirements gathering and design through the ETL system, relational data warehouse, OLAP and data mining applications, to reporting and other BI applications. SQL Server 2005, Microsoft provides a complete suite of tools to build data warehouse and business intelligence systems. This course prepares students to deal with the many facets of developing, deploying, operating, and growing the Microsoft data warehouse system

Doug Vucevic, M. Eng

40 hours

Building Analytic Solutions with Open Source

OLAP-based applications form the core of most business intelligence solutions, providing decision-makers throughout an organization with access to relevant summarized information and a convenient method of navigation. This course provides students with the practical knowledge needed to design, build and implement OLAP-based solutions using open source Kettle, Mondrian and BI platform. The focus is on development of essential skills, including the ability to design a basic star schema and populate it using Kettle ETL, the knowledge required to create an OLAP schema definition as well as the techniques required to configure end-user access over the web and through Excel. The basics of OLAP security and performance optimization and more...

Doug Vucevic, M. Eng

40 hours

Textbooks:

  1. The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling (Second Edition) by Ralph Kimball , Margy Ross
  2. The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Extracting, Cleanin (Paperback) by Ralph Kimball , Joe Caserta
  3. The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit: With SQL Server 2005 and the Microsoft Business Intelligence Toolset (Paperback) by Joy Mundy, Warren Thornthwaite, Ralph Kimball
  4. The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit : Expert Methods for Designing, Developing, and Deploying Data Warehouses (Paperback) by Ralph Kimball, Laura Reeves, Margy Ross, Warren Thornthwaite
  5. Building the Data Warehouse (Paperback) by W. H. Inmon
  6. The Data Model Resource Book: A Library of Logical Data and Data Warehouse Designs (Paperback) by Len Silverston, William H. Inmon, Kent Graziano

    Textbooks can be orderd from WILEY Publishing Inc

     


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