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Here are some comments we've received about our Business Intelligence + training. You can see all of our 497 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.
"The trainer was very knowledgeable and able to answer all questions. The energy was kept high and friendly. I have attended a previous Wise Owl SSIS course and have referred back to the notes many times. Great content!"
Gary Stroud
Southend-on-Sea City Council
"Really appreciated the course, our trainer was very helpful. I have already started doing things differently and built a new little ecosystem better than I'd previously done. Already recommended you guys to our team. "
Jessie Stroud
BBI Services Ltd
"An incredible teacher, who across the 3 days was very entertaining and engaging. His way of explaining and breaking down the course content made it easy to follow and understand. The content was everything we all needed to know and I was able to see how I could apply what I had learnt into my own projects. I came away excited to put my new knowledge into action."
Rachael Kerrigan
Adidas UK
"Excellent training as always."
Faye Chard
Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust
"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)
"Exceptional instructor, very passionate and explained all aspects of the course thoroughly in an engaging manner."
Bhavesh Patel
ReAssure UK Services Limited
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!
The Microsoft BI stack includes the following software applications for SQL Server:
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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). |
You can also create BI applications using Power BI:
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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:
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Our database of 1,200 movies | |
Our Create-a-Creature database | |
A variety of different data sources |
Whichever course you attend, we'll try to show you how you can analyse data (big or small) and present it in a meaningful and interesting way!
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Phone | Call us on (0161) 883 3606 and (within normal UK office hours) a friendly and helpful human will answer the phone! |
Send an email to our inbox and we'll aim to answer it within a couple of working hours. | |
Web | Fill in an enquiry form letting us know what you want to achieve, and we'll do our best to help! |
We've got the following videos on our site to help you to learn Business Intelligence:
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