A short course in introducing Business Intelligence and the use of Power BI for a Foundational Class of people getting into Data Science.

1. Concept of Business
Intelligence and
Introduction to
Power BI
Adekunle Babatunde
BigData Academy Nigeria

2. Overview
What we will cover
Section 1
● Concept of Business Intelligence (BI)
● Why BI matters
● Concept of KPI
● Measuring and monitoring KPI
● Tools used in BI
Section 2
● Introduction to Power BI
● Getting Data into power BI
● Manipulating Data in Power BI
● Data Modelling in PowerBI
Goal
● Use Power BI to consult for
Businesses.
● Create convincing dashboards for
Business Executives

3. Business Intelligence
● Business Intelligence leverages software and
services to transform data into actionable
intelligence that informs an organization’s
strategic and tactical business decisions
● Business intelligence solves managers insight
problem by
○ bringing in the most current data
○ present it in dashboard and quick metrics
○ help and convince decision making
● BI is more of descriptive analytics,
it only help describes the past.
● The insight generated forms what
kind of decision Managers will be
willing to take.

4. BI Dashboard
A business intelligence dashboard is an
information management tool that is used
to track KPIs, metrics, and other key data
points relevant to a business, department,
or specific process.
Example Metrics:
➔ Improve Support response time
➔ Improve profit Margin
➔ Engage with Donors better
➔ Optimize App campaigns
➔ Improve Customer retention
BI Tools :
● Tableau
● SAP
● IBM Cognos
● Oracle
● SAS
● Power BI

5. A Sample Public Dashboard

6. ➔ KPI is a measurable value
that demonstrates how
effectively a company is
achieving key business
objectives
➔ Has
◆ High level - Enterprise
wide
◆ Low level - Department
or functional/process
➔ Use to monitor organization
success at meeting specified
targets
Concept of Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
Measuring KPI - Key Questions
● What is your desired outcome?
● Why does this outcome matter?
● How are you going to measure
progress?
● How can you influence the outcome?
● Who is responsible for the business
outcome?
● How will you know you’ve achieved
your outcome?
● How often will you review progress
towards the outcome?
Be SMART with KPI

7. Power BI
● Reading Data from Data
Source
● Manipulating data
● Joining multiple Data
● Modelling Data
● Visualizing Data
● Publishing and Discussing
Insights

8. Conclusion
This marks the beginning of playing
with Data