The BI Pathway Approach: Delivering BI for Business Value

    Prerequisite:   This course assumes basic understanding of business intelligence and data warehousing fundamentals.

     

    Two-Day Course

    Course Outline

    You Will Learn

    • Straightforward business-oriented methods for identifying high impact data warehousing and business intelligence opportunities and the associated business information requirements
    • How to use business intelligence-focused architectures to align and integrate business intelligence/data warehousing information delivery with strategic, tactical, and operational business processes that drive business value
    • How to use the BI Pathway approach to guide business intelligence/data warehousing development, deployment, and integration with key, high-impact business processes
    • How to manage rapid data mart delivery within overarching business intelligence-focused architectures and BI Pathway
    • How to approach key topics and techniques such as the use of prototypes, achieving sponsor/business user commitment, and evolving the business intelligence/data warehousing environment over time to maintain business value

    Geared To

    • Program managers
    • Project managers
    • Business analysts
    • Data designers and architects
    • Business managers and knowledge workers
    • ETL designers and developers
    • Business intelligence application designers and developers

    This course is a foundation course for designing, building/reengineering, and operating a customized business intelligence environment that leverages data warehousing and delivers superior business value. It presents the DecisionPath Consulting business intelligence/data warehousing approach—the BI Pathway©.

    Building on the core concepts and highly successful fundamentals that have been central to data warehousing over the years, this course will help your organization ensure that the true business requirements for business intelligence/data warehousing are completely understood and that the business intelligence/data warehousing environment provides actionable information that makes a difference to your business.

    Through practical application of proven methods, your business intelligence/data warehousing initiatives can avoid the failures some organizations have experienced, gain user commitment, and ensure that the investment in business intelligence/data warehousing pays substantial dividends.