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We've put a lot of thought into making our online courses as useful and interactive as possbile:
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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
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!
The Microsoft BI stack includes the following software applications for SQL Server:
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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). |
You can also create BI applications using Power BI:
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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:
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Our database of 1,200 movies | |
Our Create-a-Creature database | |
A variety of different data sources |
Whichever course you attend, we'll try to show you how you can analyse data (big or small) and present it in a meaningful and interesting way!
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Phone | Call us on (0161) 883 3606 and (within normal UK office hours) a friendly and helpful human will answer the phone! |
Send an email to our inbox and we'll aim to answer it within a couple of working hours. | |
Web | Fill in an enquiry form letting us know what you want to achieve, and we'll do our best to help! |
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Power BI Desktop - legacy |
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).
We've got the following videos on our site to help you to learn Business Intelligence:
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