FDG Courses

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Course	Course Description	Duration
Business Intelligence Fundamentals	The purpose of the course is to give an executive overview of the key concepts and components of business intelligence, its purpose and framework of delivering relevant information to assist the user in the decision making process. This course is aimed at medium and high level management executives that need to understand the Business Intelligence environment. This course is also aimed at the individuals who want to move into the BI arena, and require a general overview of Business Intelligence.	1 Day
Business Intelligence Life-Cycle	The course provides delegates with a clear understanding of the concepts of data warehousing and business intelligence. This course is fundamentally build on the Kimball approach to business intelligence, and would illustrate the different phases of the lifecycle, as well as the key responsibilities for all the role-players in each phase. The course also provide delegates with an outline of all the key deliverables related to each phase of the lifecycle.	1 Day
Data Warehouse Concepts and Principles	This one-day course provide delegates with a complete overview of the key concepts and design principles that composes the data warehousing environment. It will illustrate a framework in which all aspects and tools could be defined. This framework would define the different environments such as the source system environment, the data integrations (ETL) environment, the data warehouse environment and the information delivery environment. Key focus would also be given to architectural considerations.	1 Day
Business Intelligence Methodology	The Business Intelligence Methodology course provides delegates with a complete end-to-end walkthrough of BI projects. The course will incorporate several life cycles into a practical implementation methodology.	2 Days
Business Rules Fundamentals	The Certificate in Business Rules Fundamentals provides delegates with an in depth understanding of business rules, the anatomy of a business rule and the different types of business rules. Delegates will also document business rules in order to understand the importance of business rules within the BI environment.	1 Day
Measure Definition	Measures form the cornerstone of any successful BI implementation. The certificate in Measure Definition will provide delegates with the fundamental understanding of measures, as well as the practical understanding of the management thereof. This course would also provide delegates with a clear understanding of performance indicators (PIs) and key performance indicators (KPIs) as well as practical examples thereof.	1 Day
Metadata Management	The Certificate in Metadata Management provides a comprehensive study of metadata concepts, the importance thereof and illustrates how metadata should be managed in the Business Intelligence arena. This course will also discuss standard metadata models and the sharing of metadata. Practical exercises would equip delegates with integrated theoretical and practical knowledge of metadata.	1 Day
Introduction to Analytics	The Introduction to Analytics course provides BI practitioners with an overview of business statistics, visual description of data and the statistical description of data. This fundamental ability would equip practitioners with one of the most essential skills required in the field of business intelligence. Through practical examples, this course would illustrate different statistical analysis techniques (with visualization) as well as the best fit scenarios.	1 Day
Project Management for non-project managers	The Project Management for non-Project Managers Certificate is a fundamental course aiming to provide business intelligence practitioners with an overview of project management concepts. The course will also cover the project management life cycle and project management concepts such as estimations, scheduling and monitoring. An overview of project related issues including quality management, communications management and risk management will also be covered.	1 Day
Managing the ETL process	Integrating data from various source systems into a warehouse could be very challenging. The Certificate in Managing the ETL Process would provide delegates with a thorough understanding of all the elements of this process, based on industry standards and best practices.	1 Day
Manipulating Data with SQL	The Certificate in Manipulating Data with SQL will provide delegates with a hands-on discovery of SQL from the very basics to the advanced data manipulation techniques with SQL.	1 Day
Data Quality Management	The Certificate in Data Quality Management offers delegates a hands-on discover of real life challenges of data quality problems, and then guides delegates though a process of cleaning the data. The Data Quality Management course is built on a set of best practices and principles.	1 Day
Data Modelling	The Certificate in Data Modelling is a course aiming to provide business intelligence practitioners with an understanding of the fundamental concepts of data modelling and the value thereof. The course will incorporate relational data modelling as well as dimensional modelling. The certificate also includes advanced dimensional modelling concepts to enhance performance and warehouse optimization. The course is a full-time, 3-day contact session where delegates will work through a set of study material to understand the fundamental principles of data modelling as well as the practical application thereof.	3 Days
Requirements Gathering Techniques	The Certificate in Requirements Gathering Techniques incorporates a study of the fundamental building blocks of interpersonal skills and facilitation skills with a practical approach to requirements discovery. The course also provides delegates with a principle based understanding of requirements, and the documentation thereof.	1 Day
Delivering Business Value	In order to quickly understand and interpret large volumes of data, visualization can be used if applied properly. This course will take delegates on a journey of discovery of various visualization techniques, the appropriate fit to data as well as the fundamental concepts of each technique. This course will also incorporate the very key principles on which any human-computer-interaction should be build.	2 Days