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Fundamentals of Managing and using Data for Business Intelligence





Learn about business intelligence, data mining, data management, and data warehousing with this free online BI course. This course introduces you to the application of business intelligence (BI) in making viable financial and strategic decisions. Learn about the roles of managers and the reasons why managers need IT support. You will explore data management, data mining and the mechanics of data analysis. If you are a business analyst or a small business owner or entrepreneur and want to enhance your ability to make important decisions, this course is for you.

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Training ProviderAlison
Course QualificationCPD Certificate
Course Duration4-5 hours
Course FeeFree
Entry RequirementsLike all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary.

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Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone.
Career PathWhat You Will Learn In This Free Course
• Discuss how business intelligence can be applied in starting a business
• Identify the three types of system business intelligence applications used for analyzing data
• Explain the reasons why managers need IT support
• Describe management and decision-making
• Explain BI development and the types of dashboards used in business intelligence (BI)
• Describe data management and data warehousing
• Identify the common mistakes made when designing a dashboard
• Describe the characteristics of a data warehouse
• Discuss the subsets of the data warehouse
• Explain the data warehouse development approaches
• Discuss data mining and its stepping stones
• Identify the stages involved in data mining
Course Code4100
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