Business Analytics with Excel

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Business analytics training

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.

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 importance
Grasp fundamentals of Excel analytics functions and conditional formatting
Master pivot tables and slices for analysing complex datasets
Resolve problems using scenario manager, solver and goal seek
Apply statistical tools and concepts to data sets using Excel
Represent your findings using charts and dashboards
Learn how to use Power BI for analytics and data visualisation

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 content
Hands-on industry-based projects

Key facts

Certification

This is a skills and knowledge-based course with no formal accreditation, but a course completion certificate is awarded to those who successfully complete the course and submit the evaluation project.

Who it's for

This course is suitable for beginners and experienced professionals who have recently stepped into the field of analytics.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this business analytics course other than an analytical mindset. However, it's expected to have a basic knowledge of working with Microsoft Excel.

Exam information

To get certified in business analytics with Excel, you must complete the course and submit the evaluation project. Projects are submitted for evaluation by the course trainer through LMS.

Optional extras

There are no optional extras for this course.

Pre-course

There is no pre-course work for this training course.

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