Food Bank of the Rockies thanks CONNECT: The Knowledge Network for it’s contribution.

CONNECT’s CTO, John O’Brien, taught TDWI’s Business Intelligence Fundamentals onsite in January, 2010. The BI Fundamentals course is designed to promote common language, consistent definitions, shared expectations, and mutual understanding essential to strong teamwork and cohesive results in business intelligence programs. Business intelligence focuses on use of information to drive effective business actions – It is the vehicle to achieve maximum business value from both developing and mature data warehouses. This course provides a comprehensive overview of business, technical, and cultural implications of business intelligence.

The data-to-value chain describes the transition from data to value as
DATA –> INFORMATION –> KNOWLEDGE –> ACTION –> OUTCOME –> VALUE

This course focuses on those parts of the data-to-value chain that begin with information and end with value. For an introduction to the DATA –> INFORMATION portion of the chain, consider TDWI Data Warehousing Concepts and Principles: An Introduction to the Field of Data Warehousing.