1. What is Business
Intelligence?
Business Intelligence (BI) is defined as
business insights that are based on data and
the technology and processes used to obtain those
insights. Business decisions that are based on
data can help a business be more successful.
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2.
What's different about Eliciting Requirements
on BI projects versus other types of projects?
There is a great deal of focus on data,
data quality, KPIs (Key Performance Indicators),
and historical data in BI projects. Also, there
are many styles of BI and you must elicit information
about the characteristics of BI that are needed
by the business.
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3. What
types of different documentation do we need
for BI and how different is it compared to
the normal documentation that I do?
You will need to do the same documentation
you normally do on other types of projects, but
you will also need to document the information
for an additional kind of data model (dimensional
model) to identify the BI data. You will also
need to probe into additional needs around the
characteristics of BI that are needed by the
business.
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4.
How different is the Business
Intelligence Requirements Analysis course compared
to other Requirement Analysis classes?
This class assumes the participant has some
experience with Requirements for a typical project
(although there is some basics review, so a beginner
won’t get lost) and focuses more on all
the types of requirements that must be elicited
for a project that involves a BI solution.
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5.
If I know how to do entity relationship modeling,
can I use it for BI Requirements? Or is there
a different type of modeling that I'd need
to use?
Entity relationship modeling will still be
useful on BI projects to help the analyst understand
and describe operational data that is available
and that is required in addition to the currently
available data. However, there is an additional
modeling structure that is specific to BI data
called Dimensional Modeling that helps you understand
and describe the data that will be needed for
BI. There are two types of Dimensional Models
called the Star Schema and the Snowflake Schema.
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6. What
are some keys to success for BI Projects
Some of the keys to success for BI projects
are to define the right success criteria for
the area of the business to be supported by BI,
identify the right data needed to assess that
success criteria, supply insights that will allow
the business to answer the right questions, and
present those insights in a way that makes it
easy to shed light on what the business needs
to know. In addition, to be successful, the data
presented must be accurate, timely (presented
while there is still time to respond to the insights),
high value (something the business needs to know
about), and actionable (something the business
can do something about).
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7.
What are some benefits of taking the Business
Intelligence Requirement Analysis class?
The participants will learn what is needed
to elicit and analyze effective BI requirements.
Some of the topics include what BI is and how
it has evolved into a valuable tool for the business
to support success, what makes BI challenging,
how to overcome typical mistakes, what needs
to be discovered to make BI requirements successful,
and techniques and questions to help elicit requirements
for BI projects. In addition, participants will
have the opportunity to practice eliciting BI
requirements using a case study after each lesson.
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