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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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Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish

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Data Warehousing
Microstrategy
Data Warehouse
SQL

Flexible deadlines

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Course 5 of 5 in the

Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence Specialization

Approx. 13 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish

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Michael Mannino

Associate Professor

Business School, University of Colorado Denver

201,450 Learners

4 Courses

Jahangir Karimi

Professor

Information Systems University of Colorado Denver

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2 Courses

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Course Overview

Module 1 introduces the objectives and topics in the course and provides background on the case and software requirements. The capstone course is organized around a realistic case study based on the business situation faced by CPI Card Group in 2015.

2 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 15 min), 10 readings

3 videos

Course introduction1m

Course topics and assignments video lesson8m

Executive interview5m

10 readings

Slides for lesson 110m

Slides for lesson 210m

Slides for lesson 310m

Background on CPI Card Group10m

Overview of software requirements10m

PostgreSQL Installation10m

Oracle database server installation10m

Pentaho Data Integration installation10m

Microstrategy Desktop installation10m

Database diagramming tools10m

Week

Week 2

3 hours to complete

Data Warehouse Design

Module 2 presents the requirements of the first part of the case study involving data warehouse design. To provide a context for the case study, you can listen to an executive interview with a CPI Card Group executive.

3 hours to complete

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

Week

Week 3

4 hours to complete

Data Integration

Module 3 presents requirements for the second part of the case study involving data integration. To provide a context for the case study, you can listen to executive interviews with executives from CPI Card Group, First Bank, and Pinnacol Assurance.

4 hours to complete

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

Week

Week 4

2 hours to complete

Analytical Queries and Summary Data Management

Module 4 presents requirements for the third part of the case study involving 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 PNDec 8, 2016

Excellent contemporary course content and hands on course. Recommended for everyone who wants start or change into exciting career in DWBI.

by RRMay 4, 2016

Well framed capstone project. no less than real project.

by RIOct 8, 2017

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

by SKMay 23, 2016

It was very challenging. Not everything was well prepared. But overall good! Thank you very much!

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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.

Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence

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