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Our course manuals and exercises are by some way the best in the computer training industry. Fortunately you don't have to take our word for this - you can see for yourself:
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We've put a lot of thought into making our online courses as useful and interactive as possbile:
Delegates use Remote Desktop to connect to our machines, so our trainers can see everyone's screens at all time.
We arrange (without charge) a half-hour pre-course check for each online delegate before courses, to ensure that they everyone will be able to join the course seamlessly when it begins.
As well as providing a PDF of the manual and exercises for each online course delegate we will (again without charge) also post this out to each person a few days before if required.
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What other people have said about our Business Intelligence training
Here are some comments we've received about our Business Intelligence + training. You can see all of our 473 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.
"I found the trainer really dynamic, patient and chatty, and he explained all the content very well and made it interesting to work through by providing a database on films that was invigorating to work through."
George Wherry
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG)
"Our trainer was very knowledgeable with the content, he knew exactly how the system worked, how to resolve issue and what it was capable of. He is a very likable person and confident with his delivery. The training was relaxed but very informative, and it was enjoyable as well."
Jo Harrison
Derby and Burton Hospitals NHS FT
"I found the whole experience with Wise Owl to be excellent, from the booking, through the pre-course technical testing and manuals, to the course itself. It was a pleasure to work with you. I like the fact that our trainer was able to watch over us in our individual environments and gently guide us through when we got stuck (without calling out to the other attendees). When we raised queries that couldn't be answered there and then, he took them away and came back with answers later. Originally chose Wise Owl because we'd been let down by another provider. I hadn't heard of Wise Owl before then but your website gave me a good introduction. I found the way you interacted with me during the booking and prep phases to be very professional. The course itself was excellent and the training manual and exercises will be useful to refer to in future. The style of the training was really good too - only a small number of attendees meant that no one got left behind and we were encouraged to ask questions. I will recommend Wise Owl to others. Thanks"
Simon Head
The Phoenix Group
"The course was delivered at the right pace and covered a sufficient level of details. Our trainer was excellent at explaining the functionality as we worked through each exercise."
Richard Franklin
Crown Commercial Service
"I was impressed by our trainer's thoroughness - any questions that he could not answer on the spot, he took away and answered the next day, having found workarounds to even the most obscure of questions we had for him! His pace of teaching and clarity was perfect, taking the stress out of learning new things."
Lisa Anastassiu
The Phoenix Group
"Thoroughly enjoyed the training, the course is really interesting and can't wait to start building reports. Trainer was excellent, his ability to easily explain processes helped massively and his knowledge of the system was clearly excellent as he was able to answer, in detail, every question thrown at him. Great course, great trainer."
Ewan Holden
Ultimate Products Global Sourcing (UPGS)
About our Business Intelligence training
We reckon that you work in Business Intelligence or BI if your job involves interpreting large amounts of data to make business decisions. Below is a summary of the BI courses that we offer.
You can also create business intelligence tools using Excel, of course, or even by programming in SQL, C# or VBA. Business intelligence is at the heart of virtually every training course that we run!
SQL Server BI Tools
The Microsoft BI stack includes the following software applications for SQL Server:
This allows you to extract data from a number of different formats, transform it and then load it into its final resting place (such as a data warehouse).
This comes in two flavours: multi-dimensional model SSAS used to allow you to build cubes, but for many years now tabular model SSAS has been the more modern variant.
This allows you to create reports and publish them to your corporate Intranet or to the wider Internet (we also train on the similar Report Builder reporting tool - you can see the differences here).
Other BI Tools
You can also create BI applications using Power BI:
The standalone Power BI package allows you to create beautiful dashboards by importing data from a variety of data sources and then visualising it on screen.
We also train in DAX, the formula language used by PowerPivot and Power BI (and by Analysis Services Tabular Model too, as it happens).
Whichever Business Intelligence course you choose to attend, we'll try to make it as interesting as possible. In particular, you'll work with datasets which are as simple as they can be, while still allowing us to demonstrate the topics needing covering:
If you want to learn Reporting Services, you could do worse than to watch this series of videos (although there's no substitute for the real thing). These videos use SSRS 2012, but you'll be able to use them for any version of SSRS from 2008 R2 through to 2017 (nothing much has changed with regard to the SSRS report designer).
This series of videos teaches some more advanced SSRS concepts, like custom assemblies and the use of variables (it's roughly based on our Advanced SSRS course). Like the introduction to SSRS videos, these use 2012, but will be useful for you whichever version of SSRS you're using (from 2008 R2 all the way through to 2017).
A series of videos showing how to use SQL Server Integration Services to extract, transform and load data, manipulate files, and much more besides.
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Do you ever blog about Business Intelligence?▼
As well as publishing courses and exercises, we've written a host of blogs about aspects of Microsoft's business intelligence software applications (collectively sometimes called the BI Stack):
