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We've put a lot of thought into making our online courses as useful and interactive as possbile:
Delegates use Remote Desktop to connect to our machines, so our trainers can see everyone's screens at all time.
We arrange (without charge) a half-hour pre-course check for each online delegate before courses, to ensure that they everyone will be able to join the course seamlessly when it begins.
As well as providing a PDF of the manual and exercises for each online course delegate we will (again without charge) also post this out to each person a few days before if required.
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What other people have said about our Business Intelligence training
Here are some comments we've received about our Business Intelligence + training. You can see all of our 528 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.
"The Team all thought that the trainer had an excellent working knowledge of the subject and responded well to any queries we had. All in all a very positive experience. I chose the course off the back of an SSIS article I found online. The explanations in the article were excellent."
Michael Street
Hounslow & Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust
"Great course! Our trainer was excellent in his delivery. Content was great and he was happy to answer off course points."
Scott Sharp
The Phoenix Group
"Great course and customer service from Wise Owl throughout, from pre-course checks to the course itself. I had been given a new laptop from work and it was no trouble for the team at Wise Owl to promptly arrange a self check prior to my course. The course itself was very informative and trainer was patient and answered any questions we had. Thank you."
Emily Knight
Halton Borough Council
"Our trainer provided a clear structure for the 2 days and made what is complicated, easy to understand. He answered questions about our own data whilst delivering all the material."
Matthew Fielding
Wythenshawe Community Housing Group (WCHG)
"Great course, really enjoyed it. It has so much potential to help out with day to day tasks at both work and home. Really useful to have the interactions and overviews of other Microsoft products such as Power BI, adaptive card designer and MS Graph. Whilst I can understand that the new designer has bugs, it was actually quite beneficial encountering these during the course as it allowed us to see how to problem solve them in the future."
Kerry Coyne
The Phoenix Group
"Our trainer was very friendly and helpful and answered any questions we had. He even took the time out of his evening to research unfamiliar questions."
Liberty Payne-Wright
DHU Healthcare CIC
About our Business Intelligence training
We reckon that you work in Business Intelligence or BI if your job involves interpreting large amounts of data to make business decisions. Below is a summary of the BI courses that we offer.
You can also create business intelligence tools using Excel, of course, or even by programming in SQL, C# or VBA. Business intelligence is at the heart of virtually every training course that we run!
SQL Server BI Tools
The Microsoft BI stack includes the following software applications for SQL Server:
This allows you to extract data from a number of different formats, transform it and then load it into its final resting place (such as a data warehouse).
This comes in two flavours: multi-dimensional model SSAS used to allow you to build cubes, but for many years now tabular model SSAS has been the more modern variant.
This allows you to create reports and publish them to your corporate Intranet or to the wider Internet (we also train on the similar Report Builder reporting tool - you can see the differences here).
Other BI Tools
You can also create BI applications using Power BI:
The standalone Power BI package allows you to create beautiful dashboards by importing data from a variety of data sources and then visualising it on screen.
We also train in DAX, the formula language used by PowerPivot and Power BI (and by Analysis Services Tabular Model too, as it happens).
Whichever Business Intelligence course you choose to attend, we'll try to make it as interesting as possible. In particular, you'll work with datasets which are as simple as they can be, while still allowing us to demonstrate the topics needing covering:
Each tests consists of 20 questions. The tests are free and anonymous, and at the end you'll see a full analysis of your results (as well as a comparison of how well you did relative to everyone else who has previously taken the test).
Do you have any Business Intelligence videos?▼
We've got the following videos on our site to help you to learn Business Intelligence:
If you want to learn Reporting Services, you could do worse than to watch this series of videos (although there's no substitute for the real thing). These videos use SSRS 2012, but you'll be able to use them for any version of SSRS from 2008 R2 through to 2017 (nothing much has changed with regard to the SSRS report designer).
This series of videos teaches some more advanced SSRS concepts, like custom assemblies and the use of variables (it's roughly based on our Advanced SSRS course). Like the introduction to SSRS videos, these use 2012, but will be useful for you whichever version of SSRS you're using (from 2008 R2 all the way through to 2017).
A series of videos showing how to use SQL Server Integration Services to extract, transform and load data, manipulate files, and much more besides.
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Do you ever blog about Business Intelligence?▼
As well as publishing courses and exercises, we've written a host of blogs about aspects of Microsoft's business intelligence software applications (collectively sometimes called the BI Stack):
