The curriculum for the course was recently updated to address the changing business intelligence needs of organizations and provide insights into MicroStrategy's latest product enhancements. The new class syllabus focuses on five key areas that are instrumental in building successful enterprise BI applications:
1. An Intuitive and Interactive User Experience for Making Better, Faster Decisions Understand business performance using dashboards, enterprise reports, cross-tabular reports, and chart reports. Users can analyze data, create reports, and design dashboards through a rich, user-friendly, graphical interface. 2. Fast Time-to-Value Build a fully functional BI application in less than 30 minutes. Rapid application development helps to ensure that BI investments yield results quickly. 3. Competitive Differentiation through Analytics Learn the comprehensive range of analytical capabilities from basic data aggregations to sophisticated statistical and predictive calculations. 4. Maintaining BI Applications at the Lowest Total Cost of Ownership Minimize the ongoing costs of BI applications through reusable, objected-oriented application development and automated administration. 5. Visualizations that Enhance Data Comprehension and Discovery Compare and investigate data using proper chart types and advanced visualizations that uncover and communicate data relationships, patterns, and trends.
MicroStrategy has offered the Introduction to Business Intelligence class since 2006 with thousands of participants attending classes held in cities around the world. Each quarter, MicroStrategy offers approximately 100 classes. Attendees have provided positive feedback on the course:
"The course provided a thorough overview of MicroStrategy's capabilities
that supplemented my knowledge of MicroStrategy and motivated me to consider
new ways to leverage the software on current and future BI applications," said
"The MicroStrategy Introduction to BI class expanded my knowledge about
MicroStrategy's Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards and the Web interface," said
"I was very impressed with the knowledge of the instructor," said
"MicroStrategy's Introduction to Enterprise Business Intelligence class is
an excellent opportunity for business users, BI project managers, IT
specialists, and analysts to learn about enterprise BI and the capabilities of
MicroStrategy's BI software," said
For more information on MicroStrategy's Introduction to Enterprise Business Intelligence class, visit http://www.microstrategy.com/FreeBIclasses.asp.
About MicroStrategy
Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a global leader in business intelligence (BI) technology. MicroStrategy provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software that helps leading organizations worldwide make better business decisions every day. Companies choose MicroStrategy for its advanced technical capabilities, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. More information about MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is available at http://www.microstrategy.com.
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