7 BI Software Programs to Enhance Your Business
October 4, 2024
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Launch your career in Data Analytics. Build in-demand skills and gain credentials to go from beginner to job-ready in 8 months or less. No degree or prior experience required.
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Gain the essential skills necessary to excel in an entry-level Business Intelligence Analytics role.
Learn to use Tableau Public to manipulate and prepare data for analysis.
Craft and dissect data visualizations that reveal patterns and drive actionable insights.
Construct captivating narratives through data, enabling stakeholders to explore insights effectively.
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Whether you are just starting out or looking for a career change, the Tableau Business Intelligence Analytics Professional Certificate will prepare you for entry-level roles that require fundamental Tableau skills, such as business intelligence analyst roles. If you are detail-oriented and have an interest in looking for trends in data, this program is for you. Through hands-on, real-world scenarios, you learn how to use the Tableau platform to evaluate data to generate and present actionable business insights. Upon completion, you will be prepared to take the Tableau Desktop Specialist Exam. With this certification, you will be qualified to apply for a position in the business intelligence analyst field.
In this program, you’ll:
Craft problem statements, business requirement documents, and visual models.
Connect with various data sources and preprocess data in Tableau for enhanced quality and analysis.
Learn to utilize the benefits of Tableau’s analytics features for efficient reporting.
Learn to create advanced and spatial analytics data visualizations by integrating motion and multi-layer elements to effectively communicate insights to stakeholders.
Employ data storytelling principles and design techniques to craft compelling presentations that empower you to extract meaningful insights.
This program was developed by Tableau experts, designed to prepare you for a career in Business Intelligence Analytics and help you learn the most relevant skills.
Applied Learning Project
Throughout the program, you’ll engage in applied learning through hands-on activities to help level up your knowledge. Each course contains ungraded quizzes throughout the content, a graded quiz at the end of each module, and a variety of hands-on projects. The program activities will give you the skills to :
Preprocess, manage, and manipulate data for analysis using Tableau.
Create and customize Visualizations in Tableau.
Learn best practices for creating presentations to communicate data analysis insights to stakeholders.
Demonstrate a foundational knowledge of the business analyst role.
Explain the foundational project management topics and skills used by a BI analyst.
Describe data literacy and its importance for a BI analyst.
Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of the business analysis process.
Create a business requirements document that conforms to industry best practices.
Create a visual model of a business process.
Describe the purpose and applications of tabular data, databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and ETLs.
Describe the importance of data quality and data governance in relation to data management.
Identify the principles that form the foundation of modern data architecture.
Describe the value of data visualizations in the field of business analytics.
How to preprocess data using Tableau Public
How to combine data from multiple tables found within the same data source as well as other data sources in Tableau Public.
Identify the value and structure of Tableau Public as it applies to data visualization in the industry of business analytics.
Build interactive tables by connecting, preparing, and customizing data in Tableau Public.
Create data visualizations to communicate analytic insights to the intended audience, such as business stakeholders.
Create advanced data visualizations to communicate analytic insights, such as dual-axis charts, bar-in-bar charts, small multiples, and more.
Create and customize spatial analytics data visualizations to communicate insights, such as maps, geocoding, lasso and radial selection, and more.
Add complexity to the visualizations produced in your analysis by incorporating motion and multi layers.
Apply Tableau techniques to manipulate and prepare data for analysis.
Perform exploratory data analysis using Tableau and report insights using descriptive statistics and visualizations.
Identify the benefits of the analytics feature in Tableau by utilizing this tool versus manually calculating the analytics.
Identify data storytelling best principles to convey business insights.
Build interactive dashboards and stories in Tableau.
Utilize data storytelling design principles to craft a compelling presentation so stakeholders can explore data to build their own insights.
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The Tableau Business Intelligence Analytics Professional Certificate is for anyone who is curious about entry-level roles that demand fundamental Tableau skills, such as business intelligence analyst or data reporting analyst roles.
Tableau is a platform that allows users to visualize data and reveal patterns for analysis in business intelligence, making the data more understandable.
The Tableau Business Intelligence Analytics Professional Certificate will prepare you for entry-level roles that demand fundamental Tableau skills.
A business intelligence analyst uses data and other information to help organizations make sound business decisions.
For this Professional Certificate, it is recommended (but not required) that you have some experience with Tableau Public, but even if you're new to Tableau Public, you can still be successful in this program.
Yes. It is recommended that courses are taken in order.
There will be no cost for your Tableau account. You will be prompted to sign up for a free Tableau account as part of the course activities.
This course is completely online, so there’s no need to show up to a classroom in person. You can access your lectures, readings and assignments anytime and anywhere via the web or your mobile device.
If you subscribed, you get a 7-day free trial during which you can cancel at no penalty. After that, we don’t give refunds, but you can cancel your subscription at any time. See our full refund policy.
Yes! To get started, click the course card that interests you and enroll. You can enroll and complete the course to earn a shareable certificate, or you can audit it to view the course materials for free. When you subscribe to a course that is part of a Certificate, you’re automatically subscribed to the full Certificate. Visit your learner dashboard to track your progress.
¹ Median salary and job opening data are sourced from Lightcast™ Job Postings Report. Data for job roles relevant to featured programs (2/1/2024 - 2/1/2025)
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