Business Analysis

Business Analysis is a rapidly growing area in the world. Due to the drastic improvements, it can have on organisations. This brings a huge demand for Business Analysts in all industries and sectors.

Course Benefits: This course on Business Analysis will show you the role and responsibilities of a Business Analyst along with details on the Business Change Lifecycle and the Business System.

This course is an introduction to the Business Analyst role and how it fits into the bigger picture of Business Analysis and the business change lifecycle.

Basic Business Analytics with Spreadsheets (Microsoft Excel & Google Sheets) teaches students the basics of business analytics, its importance in the present-day global digitalized economy, and how it could be applied in the real world to solve business problems.  It introduces students to the world of data, types of data, and how business data could be analysed to propel data-driven decisions.

The second aspect of the course focuses on the fundamental tools of business analytics, the spreadsheets– Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. Spreadsheets are foundational to business analytics, as bricks and mortals are foundational to building and construction. Thus, the course teaches students how to enter data into spreadsheets, format them, sort data to get data ready for analysis. You will also learn how to perform calculations, create insightful charts and visualizations with data using spreadsheets.

This course is foundational to a later course, where students will learn the fundamentals of databases. How vital they are to the roles of business analytics. Students will learn the programming language of databases-SQL (Structural Query Language). SQL is the most popular programming language for databases used to query, retrieve and manipulate information from databases.