Today’s businesses are investing significantly in capabilities to harness the massive amounts of data that fuel Business Intelligence (BI). Working knowledge of Data Warehouses and BI Analytics tools are a crucial skill for Data Engineers, Data Warehousing Specialists and BI Analysts, making who are amongst, the most valued resources for organizations.

This course prepares you with the skills and hands-on experience to design, implement and maintain enterprise data warehouse systems and business intelligence tools. You’ll gain extensive knowledge on various data repositories including data marts, data lakes and data reservoirs, explore data warehousing system architectures, deepen on data cubes and data organization using related tables. And analyze data using business intelligence like Cognos Analytics, including its reporting and dashboard features, and interactive visualization capabilities.

This course provides hands-on experience with practice labs and a real-world inspired project that can be added to your portfolio and will demonstrate your proficiency in working with data warehouses. Skills you will gain include building data warehouses, Star/Snowflake schemas, CUBEs, ROLLUPs, Materialized Views/MQTs, reports and dashboards.

This course assumes prior SQL and relational database experience.

Course Syllabus

Module 1: Data Warehouses, Data Marts, and Data Lakes

Data Warehouse Overview
Popular Data Warehouse Systems
Selecting a Data Warehouse System
IBM Db2 Warehouse (Optional)
Data Marts Overview
Data Lakes Overview

Module 2: Designing, Modeling, and Implementing Data Warehouses

Overview of Data Warehouse Architectures
CUBEs, ROLLUPs, Materialized Views and Tables
Facts and Dimensional Modeling
Data Modeling using Star and Snowflake Schemas
Staging Areas for Data Warehouses
Verify Data Quality
Populating a Data Warehouse
Querying the Data

Module 3: Data Warehouse Analytics

Introduction to Analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) Tools
Cognos Analytics: Introduction and How to Sign Up
Navigating in Cognos Analytics
Creating a Simple Dashboard in Cognos
Advanced Capabilities in Cognos Analytics Dashboards
Accessing Your Warehouse with Cognos

Module 4: Final Assignment

What you will learn:

After completing this course, you will be able to:

Explain the architecture, features, and benefits of data warehouses, data marts, and data lakes and identify popular data warehouse system vendors.
Design and populate a data warehouse, and model and query data using SQL to build CUBEs, ROLLUPs, and Materialized Views.
Analyze warehouse data using popular Business Intelligence (BI) tools such as Cognos Analytics to create reports and dashboards.
Demonstrate loading data into a data warehouse, writing aggregation queries, creating materialized query tables, and building an analytics dashboard.

Recommended Skills Prior to Taking this Course

Learners should have a working knowledge of SQL and relational databases.

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