Business Intelligence and Analytics Online Course

Textbook

The text used for this class is The New Era of Enterprise Business Intelligence: Using Analytics to Achieve a Global Competitive Advantage by Mike Biere, IBM Press, 2011. ISBN-10: 0-13-707542-3, SBN-13: 978-0-13-707542-3, and available through www.amazon.com.

Any introductory statistics book would be useful to reference as statistical concepts are covered in Module 8 and are tested within the ICCP Business Intelligence and Analytics exam. It is assumed that the student has an introductory level of statistical knowledge as this course is not a statistics course.

Course Agenda

Week 1 ... Business Intelligence Concepts
Week 2 ... BI Current State Considerations
Week 3 ... BI Infrastructure and Tool Functional Areas
Week 4 ... BI and Data Management
Week 5 ... BI and Organizational Roles
Week 6 ... Corporate Performance Management (CPM)
Week 7 ... Inputs for Decision Making
Week 8 ... Analytics Techniques
Week 9 ... BI Justification
Week 10 .. Evaluation and Selection of a BI Platform and Tool
Week 11 .. BI Solution Lifecycle
Week 12 .. Additional Areas for BI Consideration

Data and Information Quality Online Course

Textbook

The text used for this class is A Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality by Larry P. English, Wiley, 1999, ISBN-10: 0471253839; ISBN-13: 978-0471253839, and available through www.amazon.com.

Course Agenda

Week 1 ... Data Quality Issues, Definitions and Importance
Week 2 ... Quality Approaches and Relationship to Information
Week 3 ... Data Quality Frameworks, Methodologies, Maturity Models, and Quality Management Awards
Week 4 ... Assessment: Data Definition and Information Architecture Quality
Week 5 ... Assessment: Data / Information Quality
Week 6 ... Measurement: Poor-Quality Information Costs
Week 7 ... Measurement: Data Quality
Week 8 ... Information Process Improvement: Data Defect Prevention
Week 9 ... Data / Information Quality Tools and Techniques 
Week 10 .. Data Governance Function and Stewardship Concepts
Week 11 .. Implementation: Data / Information Quality Environment
Week 12 .. Data / Information Quality Sustainment, Monitoring and Metrics Reporting

Data Management Online Course

Textbook

The text used for this class is the DAMA Data Management Body of Knowledge (DAMA-DMBOK) available through www.amazon.com.

Course Agenda

Week 1 ... Data Management Process
Week 2 ... Data Governance
Week 3 ... Data Architecture
Week 4 ... Data Development
Week 5 ... Data Operations
Week 6 ... Data Security
Week 7 ... Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
Week 8 ... Reference and Master Data Management
Week 9 ... Document and Content Management
Week 10 .. Meta-data Management
Week 11 .. Data Quality
Week 12 .. Professional Development

Data Warehousing Online Course

Textbook

The text used for this class is A Manager’s Guide to Data Warehousing by Laura L. Reeves, Wiley, 2009, ISBN-10: 0470176385, ISBN-13: 978-0470176382, and available through www.amazon.com.

Course Agenda

Week 1 ... Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Concepts
Week 2 ... Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Use
Week 3 ... Data Warehousing Management
Week 4 ... Data Warehousing Roles
Week 5 ... Data Warehousing Architectures
Week 6 ... Data Warehousing and BI Technical Architecture
Week 7 ... Data Warehousing Analysis
Week 8 ... Data Modeling and Design
Week 9 ... Data Warehousing Process Relationship
Week 10 .. Data Warehousing Development
Week 11 .. BI Application Development Activities
Week 12 .. Implementation and Ongoing Activities

IS Core Online Course

Textbook

The text used for this class is Management Information Systems for the Information Age by Stephen Haag and Maeve Cummings, McGraw Hill Higher Education; 8th revised (international) edition, December 1, 2009, ISBN-10: 0070167095, ISBN-13: 978-0070167094, and available through www.amazon.com.

Course Agenda

Week 1 ... Information Systems (IS): Role, Standards, Business Drivers and, Strategies 
Week 2 ... Enterprise Architecture
Week 3 ... Hardware, Software and Network Infrastructure
Week 4 ... The Internet and World Wide Web
Week 5 ... Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce)
Week 6 ... Project Management
Week 7 ... Systems Development Approaches: Insourcing, Self-Sourcing and Outsourcing
Week 8 ... Application and System Types
Week 9 ... Data Management
Week 10 .. Data Modeling
Week 11 .. Decision Support Systems (DSS) and Business Intelligence (BI)
Week 12 .. Ethics, Privacy and Security

Systems Development Online Course

Textbook

The text used for this class is Modern Systems Analysis and Design by Jeffrey A. Hoffer, Joey George and Joe Valacich, Pearson Education Inc. (Prentice-Hall), 6th edition (global international), copyright 2011, published Feb 23, 2010, ISBN-10: 0135094895, ISBN-13: 9780135094891, ISBN-13: 978-0-13-707542-3, and available through www.amazon.com.

Course Agenda

Week 1 ... Systems Concepts and Roles
Week 2 ... Systems Development Approaches
Week 3 ... Project Management Process, Methodologies and Techniques 
Week 4 ... Systems Project Planning
Week 5 ... Systems Requirements Determination
Week 6 ... Systems Process Requirements Structuring
Week 7 ... Systems Data Requirements Structuring
Week 8 ... Logical and Physical Database Design
Week 9 ... Design Forms, Reports, Interfaces and Dialogues
Week 10 .. Distributed and Internet Systems Design Considerations and Documentation
Week 11 .. Implementing the System
Week 12 .. Maintaining the System

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