Course Overview

Business Intelligence (BI) is a transformative approach to making data-driven decisions in modern organizations. In a world overflowing with data, BI helps translate raw information into actionable insights, empowering businesses to improve operations, understand trends, and make strategic decisions. Whether you're an aspiring BI developer or a business stakeholder, learning BI fundamentals is essential for success in data-centric industries. This course demystifies BI by breaking down its concepts, tools, and applications into simple, accessible lessons tailored for beginners.

This course begins with a foundational overview of Business Intelligence—its history, evolution, purpose, and the role of a BI developer. From there, it explores the complete BI lifecycle, guiding learners through problem identification, data gathering, and storytelling with data. The course dives deeper into BI models and technologies in two parts, covering OLAP, OLTP, SQL, and Python for data analysis, followed by practical tools like Power BI, Tableau, and Alteryx for creating full-scale BI solutions. The final section offers a glimpse into BI's future and tools featured in Gartner’s magic quadrant.

By the end of this course, you'll grasp the BI lifecycle, tools, and real-world applications, empowering you to turn data into impactful business stories and smarter decisions.

What You Will Learn

  • Upon finishing this course, you'll be having a clear understanding on what business intelligence, what are the available tools to tackle down the business intelligence problems and how to choose the right set of tools to provide a tailor fit solution as per the requirements in your work environment.
  • This will enhance your understanding on the whereabouts of the business intelligence along with the data analysis and visualization capabilities provided by numerous tools available in the market to create these business intelligence solutions.
  • With this knowledge, you’ll be able to use your skills as a business intelligence developer to extract relevant insights out of data by analysing & visualizing the same into useful KPI’s and presentable visualizations or the data driven stories

Program Curriculum

  • Business Intelligence in a Nutshell
  • History of Business Intelligence
  • The Need, Purpose, & Importance of Business Intelligence
  • The Need, Purpose, & Importance of Business Intelligence
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  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Understanding the Business Problem
  • Gathering Requirements along that Business Problem
  • The Business Intelligence Lifecycle
  • Data Gathering Process
  • Understanding Your Gathered Data
  • Data Analysis Phase of Business Intelligence
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • What are the Different Tools to Store, Cleanse, & Modify Your Data?
  • An introduction to OLAP Models, its Architecture, its Benefits & Drawbacks
  • An introduction to OLTP Models, its Architecture, Its Benefits & Drawbacks
  • An Introduction to Structured Query Language
  • History of SQL, its Uses and Importance
  • Data Understanding and Analysis Using SQL
  • An Introduction to Python for Data Analysis
  • History of Python, its Uses and Importance
  • Data Understanding, Analysis, & Visualization Using Python
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • An Introduction to Power BI
  • History of Power BI, its Uses and Importance in Developing BI Solutions
  • How to Build BI Models Using Power BI
  • An Introduction to Tableau
  • History of Tableau, its uses and Importance in developing BI Solutions
  • How to Build BI Models using Tableau
  • An Introduction to Alteryx
  • History of Alteryx, its uses and Importance in Developing BI Solutions
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • What’s the Current Market Has to Offer?
  • What’s the Current Market Has to Offer?
  • What’s Next?
  • Chapter 5 Quiz
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Instructor

Avdhesh Gaur

Avdhesh Gaur is a Data Analyst, instructor, author, storyteller, speaker, and consultant as well when it comes to bringing insights out of data and visualizing the same. His career spans more than 7 years with a focus on taking down various business requirements by building Data-driven BI models using Tableau, SQL, Hive, and numerous Statistical data analysis Techniques. Avdhesh Gaur got one of his submissions to Tableau accepted on 7th January 2019. On average, only 1 out of every 10000 tableau public profile holders can achieve this feat marking him under the top 0.01% of the profound Tableau Authors, when it comes to creating efficient dashboards with tableau. Even though, He has authored numerous courses covering the fundamentals of data visualization. There was a time when he couldn't figure out, what’s something new that he can do tomorrow. That's why he feels immense joy in creating and sharing the content that can help us learn something new each day. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avdheshgaur/ Tableau Public: https://public.tableau.com/profile/avdhesh.gaur

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