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The capstone course, Design and Build a Data Warehouse for Business Intelligence Implementation, features a real-world case study that integrates your learning across all courses in the specialization. In response to business requirements presented in a case study, you’ll design and build a small data warehouse, create data integration workflows to refresh the warehouse, write SQL statements to support analytical and summary query requirements, and use the MicroStrategy business intelligence platform to create dashboards and visualizations.
In the first part of the capstone course, you’ll be introduced to a medium-sized firm, learning about their data warehouse and business intelligence requirements and existing data sources. You’ll first architect a warehouse schema and dimensional model for a small data warehouse. You’ll then create data integration workflows using Pentaho Data Integration to refresh your data warehouse. Next, you’ll write SQL statements for analytical query requirements and create materialized views to support summary data management. For data integration workflows and analytical queries, you can use either Oracle or PostgreSQL. Finally, you will use MicroStrategy OLAP capabilities to gain insights into your data warehouse. In the completed project, you’ll have built a small data warehouse containing a schema design, data integration workflows, analytical queries, materialized views, dashboards and visualizations that you’ll be proud to show to your current and prospective employers.

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Michael Mannino

Associate Professor

Business School, University of Colorado Denver

211,959 Learners

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Jahangir Karimi

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Information Systems University of Colorado Denver

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Course Overview

2 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 15 min), 10 readings

3 videos

Course introduction1mCourse topics and assignments video lesson8mExecutive interview5m

10 readings

Slides for lesson 110mSlides for lesson 210mSlides for lesson 310mBackground on CPI Card Group10mOverview of software requirements10mPostgreSQL Installation10mOracle database server installation10mPentaho Data Integration installation10mMicrostrategy Desktop installation10mDatabase diagramming tools10m

Week2

Week 2

3 hours to complete

Data Warehouse Design

3 hours to complete

1 video (Total 7 min), 4 readings, 1 quiz

Week3

Week 3

4 hours to complete

Data Integration

4 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 24 min), 6 readings, 3 quizzes

Week4

Week 4

2 hours to complete

Analytical Queries and Summary Data Management

2 hours to complete

1 video (Total 6 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz

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TOP REVIEWS FROM DESIGN AND BUILD A DATA WAREHOUSE FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE IMPLEMENTATION

by OEMay 24, 2016

Excellent course..provides hands-on experience on designing a data warehouse for BI implementation

by RIOct 8, 2017

Excellent Specialization. I will recommend this course to all my friends.

by PGAug 12, 2018

Very good except for the fact you had to wait for certain course aspects until the mark is officially given

by RRMay 4, 2016

Well framed capstone project. no less than real project.

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About the Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence Specialization

Evaluate business needs, design a data warehouse, and integrate and visualize data using dashboards and visual analytics.

This Specialization covers data architecture skills that are increasingly critical across a broad range of technology fields. You’ll learn the basics of structured data modeling, gain practical SQL coding experience, and develop an in-depth understanding of data warehouse design and data manipulation. You’ll have the opportunity to work with large data sets in a data warehouse environment to create dashboards and Visual Analytics. You will use of MicroStrategy, a leading BI tool, OLAP (online analytical processing) and Visual Insights capabilities to create dashboards and Visual Analytics. In the final Capstone Project, you’ll apply your skills to build a small, basic data warehouse, populate it with data, and create dashboards and other visualizations to analyze and communicate the data to a broad audience.

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