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The Business Intelligence Analyst Specialization Overview
CFI’s Business Intelligence Analyst (BIA) Specialization prepares you to discover the world of business intelligence through task-based learning with industry-leading, data analysis tools. Learn to visualize data with charts and graphs to create interactive and informative dashboards, and increase your productivity with the skills and knowledge to automate and streamline data transformation and analysis.
Program Overview
19 courses
14 required courses
97 Hours
Average completion time
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Your path to becoming a business analysis expert
This specialization consists of hands-on courses delivering practical, real-world data analysis and visualization skills using the latest tools and techniques.
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11 Required Courses
Complete the core courses to build a strong foundation in business intelligence.
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7 Elective Courses
Choose a minimum of 3 electives to explore more advanced topics and specialized subjects.
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Specializations allow narrow and deep focus on a targeted subject area, with particular attention to specific data analysis techniques and actionable skills.
They are designed to deepen your industry acumen and to prepare you for faster professional growth within the sector.
Skill Categories and Learning Objectives
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32%
Data Visualization
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28%
Data Transformation & Automation
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25%
Data Modeling
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15%
Coding
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1.32%Data Visualization
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2.28%Data Transformation & Automation
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Taught by Industry Experts and Data Professionals
Sebastian Taylor
Sebastian leads our BIDA® program, and has worked with a variety of business intelligence tools across a number of industries. From quant energy risk management to financial and retail analysis, Seb loves the challenge of automating and communicating complex analysis with simplicity and clarity.
Pavel Nacev
Pavel’s passion is playing around with data and finding new and quicker ways to visually present and analyze it. Pavel routinely works with millions of rows of structured and unstructured data, transforming them into meaningful insights for business analytics leaders.
Joseph Yeates
Joseph is passionate about driving better decision making by creating, curating, and communicating insights from data analytics and visualizations. He has a degree in Business Administration and Finance, with further certifications in Business Analytics & Decision Making and Applied Database Administration & Design.
John Lee
John is an advocate of using data analytics to drive decision making. He has a degree in Business Administration - Management Information Systems as well as a diploma in Data Science.
Explore Your Career Options
Over 85% of executives, supervisors, and HR professionals agree that certified individuals bring value, gain credibility, and are seen as top performers.
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Data Analyst
Data Analysts analyze data from various sources by creating data models and metrics. They collect, transform, and format data for analysis and sharing. -
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Business Intelligence Specialist
Business Intelligence specialists who receive a business intelligence analyst certification use a wider skill set, including SQL and Data Visualization. Yet, Excel remains popular for quick calculations and basic data models. -
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Data Scientist
Data Scientists use a variety of tools to analyze data and create predictive data models. Again, Excel is a useful tool to manipulate data science and interrogate smaller datasets. -
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Finance Analyst
Finance analysts perform many of the same tasks as data analysts, but by using finance specific data. Microsoft Excel is, by a significant margin, the most widely used analysis tool in finance.
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What Our Students Say
Over 75% of CFI learners report improved productivity or competency within weeks.
Exposed me to Business Intelligence concepts I previously had little knowledge about. The courses are so engaging, interesting and practical that I had to go through it twice before taking the test.
Felix Michael
This was one of the best if not the best online course I’ve taken with CFI. I’m glad I could build such an advanced dashboard while understanding more concepts in Tableau.
Jacques Antoine
As a regular Power BI user, I found the content of this course intuitive to follow. Important concepts were divulged in-depth, with a highlight on best practices.
Jude Baguio
This course further solidified my grasp of Tableau by introducing complex visuals that are applicable to real-world corporate applications intuitively.
Jude Baguio
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