Business analytics (BA) refers to the skills, technologies, practices for continuous iterative exploration and investigation of past business performance to gain insight and drive business planning. Business analytics focuses on developing new insights and understanding of business performance based on data and statistical methods. In contrast, business intelligence traditionally focuses on using a consistent set of metrics to both measure past performance and guide business planning, which is also based on data and statistical methods.
Business Analytics develop the deep quantitative capabilities and technical expertise to create business and social value by extracting useful insights and applying them in a variety of career settings
This course is designed to teach business users and analysts how to use the personal analytics desktop tool IBM Cognos Insight to quickly and easily analyze data from a variety of sources to gain insight into your business, as well as create plans to gather information from team members.
Virtual Classes
What is a Virtual Class?
A Virtual Class is an online class that allows participants to communicate, view presentations and interact with trainers. Participants attend virtual class by connecting to the Internet rather than traveling to a physical classroom. Virtual class provides the benefit of flexibility and allows participants to attend classes that may not be offered in smaller cities. It is also beneficial for professionals who are extremely busy and cannot take out times to attend classes.
Virtual classes with International Academy
The Virtual Classes will be conducted over the weekends. The virtual class is right in your comfort zone, you can attend this classes from your home or office. This will also provide you an opportunity to interact with the trainers and get your queries solved. Each virtual class will be recorded, in case you have missed any class, you can request for the virtual class link over the mail.
Note: To attend the Virtual Classrooms, you need to have computer & internet connection with the minimum speed of 1 Mbps.
System Requirement:
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Windows 7 OS
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Min 4 GB RAM
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Dual Core / Quad Core Processor
Further Learning Roadmap:
To learn analytics further and orient your career in that direction, following are the recommended study areas –
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Business Analytics, Business Intelligence
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Text/Content Analytics
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Big Data Analytics
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Predictive Analytics and Data Modelling
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