BI Brief for New MIS Graduates

August 18, 2008 · By admin

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Management Information Systems graduates who are just hitting the work force are given this brief on the real world aspects of business intelligence and performance improvement. This video answers questions for new IT grads such as “What are the most important BI concepts they should know?” and “How does BI work in the real world as opposed to classroom scenarios?”.

Concepts covered:

“perfect world versus reality of the business environment”
“Think about how to fit into existing environments”
“business performance optimization of business processes” - not merely the creation of reports and dashboards

Advice given:

Don’t be limited by traditional database, warehouse, ETL scenarios. Look at the new areas of unstructured search, cloud computing and such to come up with new approaches to actionable business intelligence

BI practioners are agents of change. Generalize your solutions. The value is in abstraction and general business optimization.

Topic: Business Intelligence Dashboard Reporting Concepts, BI in the Real World.