Career Development

Building a Business Intelligence Career

by Dave Wells

Business Intelligence (BI) is a field that is rich with career opportunity. More than any previous information systems endeavor, BI brings together business and technology in an inseparable way – the line becomes blurred and it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between the two fields. While adding complexity for both business and IT organizations, this evolution offers new career horizons for professionals in both domains. The challenge lies in reaching those horizons.

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CBIP—Not Just Any Four-letter Word

By Lawrence Bercini

We need to establish new techniques that bring together internal and external views, forecasting and monitoring perspectives, and business context to identify the right metrics and define the glue that holds them together. The internal views align with those described by the Balanced Scorecard—finance, customer, process, and people. External views include economic, political, social, and technological perspectives. Forecasting and monitoring points of view support a balance of leading and lagging indicators. Business context is found by high- level decomposition of business mission and resources.

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A TDWI Member Profile

This TDWI member's profile includes CBIP credentials as part of her professional development goals.

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CBIP—Running Toward a Goal

By John Myers

ONE OF THE HALLMARKS of a successful professional,whether you are a full-time employee or a professionalservices consultant, is the skill of continuous learning.Former University of Michigan football coach BoSchembechler used to tell incoming freshmen:“Either you are getting better, or you are getting worse.”To Coach Schembechler, this statement was aboutcompetition both in athletics and in life: You caneither move forward or be passed by. That maysound a little ominous, but it doesn’t apply only to the world of college football: it’s also true in the business intelligence and data warehousing industry.

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Becoming CBIP Certified

Interview with Jennifer Hay, CBIP Program Manager
Taken from TDWI Member Newsletter

Jennifer Hay discusses TDWI’s popular CertifiedBusiness Intelligence Professional (CBIP) certification, her experiences becoming certified, the most frequently asked questions about the program, and how to prepare for taking the exams.

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