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Q: How do I schedule an on-site training program?
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Business Intelligence Requirements - Identifying,
Analyzing and Specifying Strategic & Tactical Info Requirements

An Intensive 2-Day Instructor Led Training Program

This program is designed for business & systems analysts, project managers & leads, data modelers, architects & DBSs, application, BI & ETL developers, business end users & managers and anyone interested in acquiring and applying key BI business & systems analysis skills.


Program Description

Increased competition, rapidly changing business processes, continual innovation of products and services and demands on efficiency require decision makers to have rapid access to accurate and timely business intelligence (BI) information.

Organizations of all sizes and across all industries require BI solutions to deliver strategic and tactical information to the right people in the right way at the right time. BI has evolved from "nice to have" to mission critical.

Traditionally, many organizations looked at BI from a technical rather than a business perspective. However, effective BI solutions require business and systems analysts as well as developers and DBAs to have the essential BI business and systems analysis skills, techniques and methods to:

• Identify, analyze and validate “what” business and the information users need to know (aka, BI business requirements) to make knowledgeable and insightful tactical and strategic decisions

• Analyze and define the underlying data-oriented business rules and relationships that support the requirements

• Express the requirements in a clear, concise, unambiguous format that enables developers to design appropriate technical solutions to support BI business requirements


The focus of this intensive 2-day instructor led training program is on defining, analyzing and specifying BI business requirements – not technical solution design.

This program provides participants with the critical analytical thinking skills and hands-on analysis techniques and methods to rapidly define the business and user requirements for providing relevant, accurate, timely information for decision making.


You will learn to:

• Clearly understand core concepts underlying BI - decision support, data warehousing, information delivery, dashboards, etc.

• Differentiate between BI business requirements and transactional/operational business requirements

• Define clear, concise, unambiguous BI functional requirements

• Identify key business questions that support knowledge based decision making

• Understand key enablers (reports, metrics, queries, etc.) for delivering business intelligence

• Develop data models to analyze integration, aggregation and trending requirements


Our intensive 2-day instructor led classroom format and integrated curriculum is the most effective, practical and convenient approach to acquire and integrate the skills and knowledge into your work environment.


Program Format

This program comprises best practices, supporting techniques and practical knowledge gleaned from the experience of numerous real-world projects.

It includes practical application of model driven analysis techniques followed by carefully crafted exercises and case studies designed to reinforce the techniques and enhance participant skills.


Program Outline (1.5 CEU credits)

Intro and Key Concepts
• Business functions v. business processes
• BI v. business system business requirements
• BI’s role in business process improvement

BI Information Framework
• Information creation, integration and delivery
• Enterprise data warehouse concepts
• Iterative BI analysis

BI Data Modeling Patterns
• Data oriented business rules
• Business data patterns for BI
• State transition analysis

Strategic BI Business Requirements
• BI v. operational requirements
• Identifying/capturing strategic BI requirements
• Analyzing/modeling strategic BI requirements
• Using dimensional models to define strategic BI requirements

Tactical BI Business Requirements
• Tactical v. strategic BI Requirements
• Identifying/capturing tactical BI requirements
• Analyzing/modeling tactical BI requirements
• Defining tactical BI requirements

Data Acquisition Requirements Analysis
• Mapping target-to-source data
• Mapping source-to-target data
• The ETL process

Information Delivery Requirements Analysis
• Delivering requirements - ROLAP v. MOLAP
• Designing star schemas for BI data marts
• Sparsity, cross-organizational facts and asymmetrical dimensions
• Exploring portal, dashboard and data mining concepts

BI Analysis Best Practices
• Data quality considerations
• BI quick reference guide
• BI analysis templates


The BI Requirements training program is part of Inteq’s integrated Business Analysis Series (which also includes Business Process Management, Business Systems Reqirements, Business Data Modeling and Advanced Data Modeling) is based on Inteq’s MoDA™ Framework* – the rapidly emerging worldwide standard for business and systems analysis.

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*Model Driven Analysis Framework