Education

Since our launch in 1999, DecisionPath consultants have delivered over 500 days of BI and data warehousing instruction at TDWI World Conferences, at TDWI Regional Seminars, and at major organizations in a wide range of industries. We teach both DecisionPath courses and TDWI courses, many of which can be customized into workshops that offer BI teams the opportunity to put into practice the concepts, principles, and methods from these highly regarded courses that have been taken by thousands of BI and IT professionals around the world.

DecisionPath Course Offerings

For information about any of the courses listed below, please send us a note at BIEducation@DecisionPath.com. For all courses owned by and/or distributed in conjunction with TDWI, we will be pleased to provide course information and the appropriate contact information at TDWI.

DecisionPath Courses:

• The BI Pathway Approach: Delivering BI for Business Value (also taught through TDWI)

Your BI team will learn a comprehensive end-to-end process for creating a BI and DW vision and strategy, making a compelling business case, identifying and overcoming barriers to success, formulating a realistic program plan, defining requirements and priorities, leveraging scalable business and technical architectures, employing best practices technical methods, and continuously leveraging BI to drive improved business performance.

• Business Requirements for BI Impact

Your BI team will learn how to work with the business community to identify and document business requirements for leveraging BI for such purposes as reducing costs, acquiring and retaining profitable customers, achieving operational excellence, increasing campaign effectiveness, meeting regulatory mandates, delivering more robust management and financial information, improving strategic performance, and driving top-line growth.

• Leveraging BI to Improve Business Results for Electric Utilities

Your BI team will learn how BI is used to improve core business processes that drive business results, how to identify and prioritize BI opportunities, and some of the top BI opportunities for electric utilities.

• Aligning Balanced Scorecards and BI to Optimize Performance

Your BI team will learn how Balanced Scorecards and BI compliment each other and the practical ways that the two can be aligned to develop a robust business performance improvement tool.

TDWI Courses:

• TDWI Data Warehousing Concepts and Principles
• TDWI Business Intelligence Fundamentals
• TDWI Data Warehousing Architectures
• TDWI Business Intelligence Executive Briefing
• TDWI Business Intelligence Program Management
• TDWI Data Modeling
• TDWI Dimensional Data Modeling Primer
• TDWI Data Analysis and Design Basics for BI Teams
• TDWI Data Cleansing: Delivering High Quality Warehouse Data
• TDWI Data Integration Basics for BI Teams