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See for yourself in a one-day introductory course in either Phoenix, Arizona or Burnsville, Minnesota. This free course, designed for individuals without business intelligence experience, introduces BI from the perspective of people who use, develop and manage BI applications.
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There are two ways to sign up for this FREE class. Once the next course date is announced, we will contact you.
- Sign up by phone - 952.230.7360
- Sign up online
Course Information
This free course, designed for individuals without business intelligence experience, introduces BI from the perspective of people who use, develop and manage BI applications.
- Business Users: Explore all 5 styles of BI — Scorecards and Dashboards, Enterprise Reporting, OLAP Analysis, Advanced and Predictive Analysis, and Alerts and Proactive Notification — integrated into a seamless reporting, analysis, and monitoring experience for fact-based decisions. Understand how to use BI applications to drive strategy and operational efficiency.
- Analysts: Investigate enterprise data with easy to use analytical techniques such as pivot, drill, sort, prompting, on-the-fly metric creation, report filtering, ad hoc report creation, and more.
- Report Authors: Design and refine scorecards, dashboards, enterprise reports, and OLAP reports — with what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) ease.
- BI Developers: Create the crucial and reusable report building blocks that business users, analysts, and report authors use: KPIs, metrics, data filters, prompts, time series calculations and many more.
- BI Architects: Model the business into easy to understand objects such as business dimensions, business attributes, and facts to eliminate database table, schema, and naming complexity.
- Administrators: Manage enterprise BI applications for thousands of users using real-time system monitoring, historical operating information, and comprehensive security.
- BI Project or Application Managers: Turn business users’ requirements into insightful BI applications, while maintaining the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO).
Who Should Attend?
Designed for business users, BI project managers, IT specialists, and budget owners who sponsor BI applications, you can expect to gain insights into BI and specifically how the BI architecture is expressly designed for your needs. Interact with your peers and BI experts in this comfortable classroom setting for a day of knowledge sharing and education.
If you meet the above criteria, we encourage you to call Lancet today for consideration.
952.230.7360 -or- Sign Up Online
Agenda
AGENDA SCHEDULE
Registration: 8:30AM–9:00AM
Morning Session: 9:00AM–12:30PM
Lunch: 12:30PM–1:30PM
Afternoon Session: 1:30PM–5:00PM
This one-day, hands-on introductory course discusses enterprise BI architecture, demonstrates business user interactivity, details BI application development, and covers BI application administration. Students will spend about one-half of the class exploring BI software with hands-on, instructor-driven exercises.
The class starts with the business user experience in the morning and finishes with the BI developer, architect, and administrator experience in the afternoon. A complimentary lunch will be served.
A synopsis of the one-day curriculum is below:
MORNING SESSION: Using BI for Better Decisions Every Day
- Understanding the range of popular BI applications
- Learning about enterprise-caliber BI architecture
- Discovering scorecards, dashboards, operational reports, and alerts
- Interacting with enterprise data by slicing-and-dicing, pivoting, exporting, printing, and more
- Sharing critical information with your colleagues immediately
- Investigating data by drilling anywhere in the database
- Personalizing reports by selecting the information you want to see from convenient prompts
- Analyzing data by adding business calculations, zeroing in on areas of concern, and performing time-series analysis
- Creating your own analytical reports intuitively
- Designing pixel-perfect reports, scorecards, and dashboards
AFTERNOON SESSION: Developing and Administering Enterprise BI Applications
- Modeling the business to the data warehouse
- Defining key business terms and their relationships
- Building business metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs), data filters, prompts, thresholds, and reports
- Performing advanced analysis with Data Mining and Predictive Analysis functions
- Accessing many data sources: databases, SAP BW, Microsoft Analysis Services, Hyperion Essbase
- Extending BI to other systems using an open software development kit (SDK)
- Managing enterprise BI: scalability, performance, security, governing, and system monitoring
If you meet the above criteria, we encourage you to call Lancet today for consideration.
952.230.7360 -or- Sign up online by filling out the form below.
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