Business Intelligence Certificate

Program Objectives

The Business Intelligence Certificate is designed to equip professionals with the technical and analytical skills needed to transform organizational data into meaningful insights that drive decision-making. Through an integrated curriculum, students learn how to identify business problems that can be addressed with BI solutions, capture and analyze requirements, design and build data models, and prepare data using modern ETL and integration techniques. The program emphasizes real-world applications, enabling students to develop dashboards, KPIs, and visualizations that communicate insights clearly and support operational and strategic business decisions. By the end of the certificate, students will be able to apply BI tools, methods, and best practices to help organizations improve performance, predict trends, and support data-driven planning.

Learning Outcomes

Graduates of this program will be able to:

• Identify business problems that can be addressed through business intelligence solutions.

• Plan, elicit, analyze, and document requirements for BI projects.

• Use requirements to support BI package selection or custom solution development.

• Define and develop business intelligence technical architectures.

• Understand and apply Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) and integration techniques.

• Understand and define tabular and multi-dimensional data models.

• Explain platform, product ownership, and application models for BI deployment and sustainment.

• Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and other metrics for business analysis.

• Translate business requirements into technical specifications.

• Develop reports, dashboards, and controls that allow drilling, slicing, filtering, and interactive analysis.

• Produce stakeholder-focused dashboards and reporting materials to support data-driven decisions.