Introduction to Business Intelligence and Analytics (Free Online Course)

Introduction to Business Intelligence and Analytics (Free Online Course) : This course focuses on how information systems that store, collect, and manage data can be paired with analytic techniques to provide organizational decision-makers with information and insights that allow them to make more effective decisions. The ultimate aim of any decision-making process is to produce more efficient and effective organizational operations that enable a company to gain a competitive advantage.

With the advent of automated transaction processing systems, a large amount of data is created and stored as a result of organizational operations. When coupled with external data on customers, economic indicators, customer preferences, and even text-based social media, this data can be used to feed analytic models. This big data can be stored in data warehouses, extracted and organized with systems like data mining, and incorporated into data governance and quality management systems.