Training: Data Analysis and Business Intelligence Using Power BI

Data is the new crude oil. And business success in the 21st century is heavily reliant on the ability to mine and use relevant data about consumers, internal operations, financial operation and industry trend to drive business decisions.

UrBizEdge Limited, Nigeria’s leading business data analysis company is putting together this special training for proactive business professionals who already have some experience with business reporting and quantitative data analysis.

We will be focusing on Business Intelligence and how to create BI reports that leverage participant’s current data analysis skills using Microsoft’s Power BI. Power BI enables organizations to have a wholesome understanding of what is happening at all operational levels of the company.

This training is coming up on Friday 2nd December 2016 to Saturday 3rd December 2016. It covers our industry recognized certificate, practice materials, required software, tea break + lunch and other training materials.

The training will be facilitated by an officially awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). And we have had participants of our training from Promasidor, Citi Bank, Dalberg, SaveTheChildren, Mobil, Total, Vodacom, Nestle, Guinness Nigeria, Nigerian Breweries, Delta Afrik, LATC Marine, Broll, Habanera (Japan Tobacco InternationaI), SABMiller, IBM, Airtel, Diamond Bank, ECOWAS, Ministry of Finance, Palladium Group, Nokia Siemens Networks and DDB.

To register reach Michael on 08089382423 and mike@urbizedge.com or Hannah on 08021180874 and hannah@urbizedge.com to register. There is a class size limit.

Date: Friday 2nd December 2016 to Saturday 3rd December 2016

Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm each day

Venue: Kristina Jade Learning Center, 70b Olorunlogbon street, Off Alade Lawal street, Anthony Village, Lagos. 

Cost: N100,000/participant

The training will cover: 

1.       Power BI’s strength and weakness compared to the other popular BI tools

2.       Important concepts of Power BI

3.       Connecting to any type of data source (from structured to unstructured which will require some transforming)

4.       Getting data from existing services, organizational content pack, flat files and live databases

5.       Data Transformation (very broad and requires some knowledge of data analysis) and we will use DAX formulas too

6.       Creating relationships between the datasets and leveraging hierarchy (a.k.a. data modelling)

7.       Creating Reports

8.       Visualizations and the science behind choosing the right visuals

9.       Importing custom visuals (especially word cloud for sentiment analysis and other very useful non-native visuals)

10.   Creating dashboards

11.   Publishing Reports from the Power BI Desktop and pinning to dashboards

12.   Scheduling refresh

13.   Q & A Natural Language query

14.   Integrating with Cortana

15.   Live Dashboards

16.   Collaboration and sharing

17.   Printing the dashboard

18.   Analyzing the dashboard data (report) from Power BI service in Excel (new feature)

19.   Value Proposition to corporate customers

20.   Use case scenarios for entire company or business unit or departments

21.   Access from mobile app and setting data alerts (automated notifications when something of note happens)

22.   Lots of interaction (Q&A) and practice

Reach Michael on 08089382423 and mike@urbizedge.com or Hannah on 08021180874 and hannah@urbizedge.com to register. There is a class size limit.

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