Class BI24.

Occupational roles - BI analyst - BI consultant - BI developer - Business Analyst - Systems developer in decision support The graduate has knowledge of... - How Business Intelligence can develop an organisation's various business and operational processes - How ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) and ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) are used in organisations to retrieve, refine and organise data. How statistics and data analysis can be used to analyse events, the future and risks for companies - Tools for decision support - Machine learning and how machine learning methods can be used in an organisation - Laws (e.g. GDPR) and ethical aspects of data management, and how both of these areas can affect a long-term business strategy - How BI solutions can be connected with streaming data - SQL and relevant database management tools - The concept of Big Data and how structured versus unstructured data is handled and stored - One or more BI-related programming languages - How data visualisation and presentation are carried out with visualisation techniques and tools - Cloud solutions used in BI The graduate has skills in... - Identifying an organisation's needs and designing solutions using SQL - Developing and managing cloud solutions - Modelling databases - Collecting, transforming and refining data based on organisation-specific needs - Selecting, combining, visualising and presenting data - Working with, creating and presenting solutions using statistics, programming and the programming languages Python and/or R - Identifying and developing KPIs for an organisation - Developing organisation-specific applications in a suitable current programming language - Interpreting and writing requirements specifications for BI projects The graduate has the competence to... - Analyse data in order to make strategic business decisions - Understand and combine data based on a specific task (e.g. from a profitability, credit risk or sustainability perspective) - Produce a recommended solution proposal based on requirements specifications - Develop strategies for handling, storing and refining complex data structures in order to support a specific organisation - Guide colleagues in areas such as decision support, ethical considerations in data management and BI projects - Recommend a method for data analysis based on specific requirements or situations in an organisation - Visualise data appropriately based on purpose and target audience - Keep up to date independently with developments in the field for their own professional development