In this article, we explain the importance of investing in Business Intelligence training and show the different career opportunities.
 
Over the past few years, the area of Business Intelligence, which uses specific tools to help professionals make more informed decisions and create more profitable strategies for companies, has been increasingly sought after by both companies and professionals.

Investing in Business Intelligence specializations allows you to develop your knowledge in this area and increase your competitiveness, creating new job opportunities and good salary prospects - in general, salaries in this area are high and offer good growth opportunities.
 

Functions of a Business Intelligence professional

A Business Intelligence manager must know the company they work for very well, constantly updating databases, identifying patterns and creating behavioral changes, while also being able to:

• Manage processes and methods of collecting, transforming and storing data from different operations or activities;
  
  
• Identify patterns and atypical values for analysis of the current state of the business;


  
  
• Create reports to present results and strategic changes that can benefit the company in the short, medium, and long term.

In other words, a Business Intelligence manager is one of those responsible for improving the performance of an activity or business, while helping to identify problems or inefficiencies. To do this, they must use specific tools capable of analyzing historical and current data, showing the results in intuitive visual formats.

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Which companies should have Business Intelligence specialists?

This is an increasingly important area in today's companies, whether they are in finance, technology, education, manufacturing or healthcare. In fact, any organization can use data to review and transform its operations. These companies can use whatever features are most useful to them given their objectives, such as data visualization, artificial intelligence or machine learning.

In short, companies that take advantage of Business Intelligence services are able to:

• Monitor and forecast consumption trends and sales performance, calculating risks and managing them;
   
• Automate tasks in order to reduce inefficiencies and receive instant alerts on anomalies;
   
• Perform real-time analysis and reporting within the company;
   
• Centralize data and make it available throughout the organization, increasing the transparency of processes.

Training Available in Business Intelligence

Different educational institutions offer specializations in this area, such as post-graduate and master’s degrees. NOVA IMS offers a post-graduation in Business Intelligence that trains specialists and managers capable of designing, building and using Business Intelligence and Analytics processes in order to support decision making in the organization and knowledge management.

 
See the NOVA IMS offer in the area of Business Intelligence.


The course is intended for professionals seeking to increase the value built from organizations' data warehouses and for technical staff working on Business Intelligence initiatives, including data warehousing, business analytics and data visualization.

The post-graduation in Business Intelligence at NOVA IMS grants access to the Master’s Degree in Information Management, with specialization in Business Intelligence, a course that is ranked as the best Master in Business Intelligence and Strategy in the World by Eduniversal, the international agency that annually publishes the ranking of the best Master’s and MBAs in the world.

NOVA IMS

Created in 1989, NOVA IMS is the school of Information Management and Data Science of the Nova University of Lisbon. Currently, it has more than 3000 students, including undergraduate, postgraduate and master's degrees. Know more on our website.