Introduction to Business Intelligence (BI)
Author: Lynn Fountain
| CPE Credit: |
2 hours for CPAs |
Business intelligence (BI) combines business analytics, data mining, data visualization, data tools and infrastructure, and best practices to help organizations to make more data-driven decisions, data mining practices, you know you’ve got modern business intelligence when you have a comprehensive view of your organization’s data and use that data to drive change, eliminate inefficiencies, and quickly adapt to market or supply changes.
Why is business intelligence important? Business intelligence can help companies make better decisions by showing present and historical data within their business context. Analysts can leverage BI to provide performance and competitor benchmarks to make the organization run smoother and more efficiently.
This course is designed to provide a high-level overview of what constitutes BI and important concepts anyone who wishes to engage in establishing BI should be aware of. Future courses will delve further into actual practical concepts and methods of Business Intelligence.
Publication Date: December 2022
Designed For
Professionals wishing to gain an introduction to the world of Business Intelligence.
Topics Covered
- Definition of business intelligence
- Elements of business intelligence reporting
- Business intelligence and analytics
- Processing business intelligence mining
- Complex event reporting
- Benchmarking and text reporting
- Steps to better business intelligence
Learning Objectives
- Describe Business Intelligence (BI)
- Identify elements of BI reporting
- Identify and understand BI and analytics
- Recognize how to evaluate aspects of processing mining
- Describe aspects of complex event reporting
- Recognize and examine aspects of benchmarking and text mining
- Identify steps to better BI
Level
Basic
Instructional Method
Self-Study
NASBA Field of Study
Auditing (2 hours)
Program Prerequisites
None
Advance Preparation
None
