This course offers practical business analytics training using Excel, providing hands-on experience to analyse data effectively. Ideal for professionals seeking to make data-driven decisions, it includes 12 months’ access for self-paced study.
April Sale - up to 25% off training courses – use code: APRIL25AUS
View courses
2d0010fa-afa5-4419-9a6e-bc04e3e73c07
Business Analytics with Excel
Select your learning method:
Quote request
Please complete the form to ensure your quote is accurate and we will contact you soon.
Learn essential skills
Business analytics training
Master Data Analysis with Excel
This 7-hour eLearning course focuses on business analytics skills, covering basic and advanced Excel tools and techniques, as well as an introduction to Power BI. Following a grounding in the importance of data analysis in the modern workplace, learn to process, visualise, and interpret data for actionable insights.
Learning objectives
- Understand the meaning of business analytics and its industry importanceÂ
- Grasp fundamentals of Excel analytics functions and conditional formattingÂ
- Master pivot tables and slices for analysing complex datasets Â
- Resolve problems using scenario manager, solver and goal seekÂ
- Apply statistical tools and concepts to data sets using ExcelÂ
- Represent your findings using charts and dashboardsÂ
- Learn how to use Power BI for analytics and data visualisationÂ
What you'll learn
The business analytics with Excel course will boost your analytics career with powerful new Excel skills. Learn the basic theory of data analysis and statistics, and explore the statistical concepts important to acquire insights, presenting your findings using executive level dashboards.
Introduction to business analytics
Understand the significance of business analytics in today’s professional landscape, and why data analysis is leading strategical decision-making in all industries.
Data analytics basics
Conditional formatting and important functions analysing data with pivot tables and slicing
Dashboarding
Learn a variety of ways to present your data findings, and develop skills in Power BI, currently the best tool provided by Microsoft for data analytics and visualisations.
Business analytics with Excel
Learn to utilise some of the more advanced features in Excel to get the most out of your data.
Data analysis using statistics
Gain proficiency in statistical tools and concepts like moving average, hypothesis testing, ANOVA and regression.
Projects
The course involves two practical projects designed to enhance data analytics skills in real-world contexts. The first project focuses on creating a sales dashboard for an e-commerce company, enabling user-controlled analysis of trends by product category and shipping timelines. The second project involves designing a dashboard for a pharmaceutical company, allowing user interaction to review sales and commission data segmented by brand and region.
What's included
- 12 months’ online access to approximately 7 hours of eLearning contentÂ
- Hands-on industry-based projectsÂ
FAQs
Explore how business analysis training can improve your skills in analysis, data generation and exploration, process improvement, and decision-making for strategic business success.
What is business analysis?
A business analyst bridges the gap between business needs and technical solutions. Their primary role is to identify areas for improvement within an organisation and develop actionable solutions. To do this, they typically use data analysis tools like Excel, and knowledge of the business to identify patterns of behaviour for both employees and customers, delivering analysis reports that recommend potential organisational improvements.
What career benefits can I expect?
By completing business analysis training, you’ll not only increase your technical capabilities and business acumen, but also build a strong foundation for career advancement, making yourself more competitive, versatile, and impactful in the workplace. Business Analysts play a crucial role in decision-making, strategy, and performance optimisation within a wide range of sectors.
Who will benefit from this business analytics training?
This course is beneficial for IT developers and testers, data analysts, junior data scientists, analytics professionals, BI and reporting professionals, project managers, students, and professionals working with data in any industry.
What is eLearning?
Do you prefer to learn at your own pace? Our interactive and engaging eLearning is the perfect self-study option, allowing you to move through resources and activities at a time that suits you.
What our customers say
"Flexible and very convenient as you can adapt your progress pace to your needs."
Julian Portillo Aguilar, ILX learner
"The online training worked perfectly and was reliable. The content was suitable for the learning objectives."
Patrick Anigbo, ILX learner
Why study with ILX
500,000+
learners
learners
Join the half a million learners developing their skills with our training
5,000+ businesses
A trusted partner to thousands of organisations worldwide
96% customer satisfaction
Our passionate team goes above and beyond to support customer needs
Similar courses
Business Analysis
Business Analysis Applied Business Architecture
Business Analysis
Business Analysis Business Analyst Learning Path