OVERVIEW
BI Source invites you to attend a free one-day, hands-on Introduction to Business Intelligence Class. This complimentary class is taught by professionals from MicroStrategy introducing users to their amazing BI software MicroStrategy 8. This class is designed for individuals without MicroStrategy experience, where the experts introduce the software from the perspective of people who use, develop, and manage enterprise BI applications.
Learn how to:
- Create your own reports
- Create Flash enabled dashboards & scorecards
- Investigate data by drilling anywhere in the database
- Perform advanced analysis
- Manage enterprise BI and much more...
COURSE AGENDA
The free Intro to BI Class consists of two sessions, morning and afternoon.
Morning Session: 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
- 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: 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- 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
- Manaing enterprise BI: scalability, performance, security, governing, and system monitoring
COURSE REGISTRATION
Registration for this free Intro to BI Class is open to anyone interested in attending. Each class consists of 12-15 seats, so register today to ensure a spot in the next class.
There are two ways you can register for this great opportunity, click the Register Now button at the bottom of the page or call BI Source at 800-785-4180.
People who should attend:
- Business Users
- Analysts
- Report Authors
- BI Developers
- Administrators
- BI Project or Application Managers
- IT Specialists
Scheduled Classes:
- May 28, 2008 - Edison, NJ
