Making Informed Decisions: The Foundation of Business Intelligence

Business intelligence (BI) is the use of software, tools, and applications to analyze an organization’s raw data with the goal of optimizing decisions, improving collaboration, and increasing overall performance. The process is the collection and analysis of the personal, team, and organizational information through activities such as data mining, analytical processing, querying, and reporting. As a student in this program, you collect, analyze, design, build, integrate and manage systems in order to facilitate data-driven decision-making. Use current versions of in-demand, enterprise grade software to access multiple data sources, including complex databases and data warehouses, for application and/or enterprise Cloud/Hybrid/on-premises solution…Continue Reading

Small Business Management 101: Building a Strong Foundation

While it may seem easier to spend a little bit of time every day coming up with something to post, this can actually be more time-consuming (and stressful) in the long run. Now that you know how to use social media for small business, it’s time to get online. Every business owner knows how difficult it can be to attract new customers. You can spend hours crafting the perfect product and designing an eye-catching website, but if no one knows you exist, it’s all for nothing. In fact, 71% of small-to-mid-sized businesses use social media to market themselves, and 52%…Continue Reading