Download Advance Business Intelligence Workshop By Dr. Amos Baranes PhD

Advance Business Intelligence Workshop
By Dr. Amos Baranes PhD, CPA
Business Intelligence is a set of tools that allows the enterprise to record and analyze its data to
turn it to useful information for decision making, innovation and to create competitive advantage.
Every manager and entrepreneur must have a clear understanding of the capabilities of BI
(including Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data) and every enterprise must have the
personnel with the skills to implement these platforms. In this workshop, we will layout the
foundation of business intelligence with a brief historical evolution up to date. We demonstrate
hands on practice on publicly available database. We will conclude with advanced research
example in which we demonstrate the use of MS SQL database with R statistical software.
Topics of the workshop:
A. Business Intelligence (BI)
a. What is Business Intelligence? From operation to decision making and product
innovation.
b. Short description of the structure of BI for research and for enterprise.
i. Relational Database.
ii. Extract Transform & Load (ETL) Process
iii. Multi-Dimension Cubes – OLAP.
iv. Dash Board (& Reporting).
v. Introduction to Analytic.
c. Demonstration in Financial Analysis (and how to apply them to other fields: Finance,
Accounting, Marketing etc.)
B. New and future Applications of BI
We will survey the current applications of BI and the foreseeable path of this field of smart
agent, analytics, mobile, big data framework, data science etc.
C. Case Study – Ideation
We will demonstrate how to use BI tools of MS SQL with the R software to value ideas and
value of valuators. R software is one of the most used in data science and Big Data.
Dr. Amos Baranes earned his PhD from the University of Chicago, and is also a Certified Public
Accountant in the United States. He worked at PWC as a Senior Economist in the field of
Transfer Pricing. At Lexecon Inc., Dr. Baranes developed the practice of Corporate and Asset
Valuation. He also founded the company AVNAT Ltd., which provides business intelligence
services to financial institutions. He is also the author of the book: “Business Intelligence for
Business”. Recently, Dr. Baranes established Africa Industrial Business Center (AIBC), which
provides consulting services on behalf of the World Bank in the fields of Business Intelligence
and Training for Financial Institutions. Currently, he lectures in advanced courses in Data
Science (IS), Entrepreneurship, and Finance at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, the
University of Haifa, and Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
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