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Business Intelligence: Data Analysis and Reporting Techniques

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Why Attend

In this day and age it is no surprise for corporate staff to be overwhelmed by the abundance of unstructured data. ERPs and databases have evolved to a point where they can house amazingly large amounts of data. The question now is, what do you do with this data to add value? This program will introduce Business Intelligence (BI), hands-on, to allow you to clean, normalize, and interpret large volumes of data. You will be able to establish historical relationships, analyze the current situation and predict future strategies. The application of BI is borderless, covering operational, tactical and strategic business decisions. It spans all departments and cascades down to all users who perform data cleansing, reporting, analysis, modeling, integration and automation.

In this course we use MS Excel exclusively as an ultimate and readily available BI tool allowing you to develop an exclusive level of expertise and add immediate value to your job and company.

Course Methodology 

20% of the course is design and structure focused while 80% uses MS Excel as a BI tool. Groups and individuals will be required to complete exercises, case studies, and projects on a daily basis.

Target Audience 

Business professionals, business analysts, data analysts, research analysts, finance professionals, marketing and sales professionals, HR professionals, IT professionals, administrative staff, supervisors, general business professionals and staff from any function who need to learn and apply state-of-the-art data analysis techniques to their daily business reporting and decision making.

Course Objective

Provided by the SQ, this programme is available by distance learning, allowing you to study flexibly while balancing work and personal lifes.


Boost Excel Business Intelligence (BI) expertise in data slicing and dicing, data massaging, and data aggregation and modeling

Perform data normalization, consolidation, report writing, analysis and reconciliation

Develop dynamic BI models, dashboards, scorecards and flash management reports by linking-up Excel with Access, Web, Text, Internet, SQL, ERPs and other databases 

Advance and enhance the look and feel of reports using dynamic visualization techniques

Acquire numerous tips and tricks that enable them to work efficiently

Target Competences


Massaging and normalizing data

Reporting, analysis and reconciliation

Interpretation of large data sets

Modeling and ‘what-if’ scenarios

Establishing data integration

Developing dynamic dashboards and scorecards

Designing key performance indicators

Course Outline


Data analysis tools and techniques

The look and feel: charting and visualization techniques

Mastering data reporting: the 20 must learn pivot-tables tools

Tips and tricks

Data modeling and integration

Program Methodology


In person

Online