COURSE 9160 | 2-DAY SESSION
Introduction to Business Intelligence

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Build the right mix of project management and requirements gathering skills to make your data warehouse project stick.

Making the decision: will BI initiatives pay off for you?
Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing are expensive initiatives that shouldn’t be taken lightly. Both involve high risk — and high reward — for the most experienced project manager or business analyst. Project management is especially critical for a data warehouse project. Without good management, projects are prone to run late, go over budget, deliver low quality, and most importantly, simply miss expectations.

Learn how to:

• Implement best practicesIdentify business and technical drivers for the project
  
• Gather and prioritize business and technical requirements
  
• Identify critical success factors and mitigate risk
  
• Scope out current and future project phases
  
• Identify organizational and cultural issues, including staffing, roles, and responsibilities
  
• Manage user expectations for function, schedules, performance, and availability
  
• Determine data warehouse methodology, project planning, and project control
  
• Discern effective change control
  
• Prepare for success in deployment, rollout and ongoing support
  
• Implement effective management monitoring and communication
  
• Harness the most proven data warehouse/BI best practices