IBM Analytics University 2018

Driving smarter decisions

 

Choose your route to smarter decisions


Our comprehensive curriculum will be available by role across the following key areas of study: Unite, Plan & Report, Explore & Visualize, Predict & Optimize, Manage, and Trust.




1. Unite

Focus: Combine solutions to drive innovation


Join these high-level overview sessions to learn how you can drive innovation across the organization by uniting multiple data and analytics technologies, processes, and strategies. Discover how the IBM Analytics Lifecycle can help you catapult your organization forward by using a combination of the major analytics disciplines: descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, prescriptive, with cognitive computing, AI, machine learning, and NLP to put insights into the hands of decision makers.   


Recommended for these Job Roles:      

  • Executive
  • Analytics Leader
  • Manager



2. Plan & Report

Focus: Enable agile planning and streamline the financial close


Learn how you can automate and accelerate your planning, budgeting, forecasting, financial close, and reporting processes. Discover how flexible, multidimensional analysis with automated visualizations, and cognitive and predictive analytics, enable you to uncover new insights and improve your financial and operational performance management.


Recommended for these Job Roles:                

  • Executive
  • Finance Professional
  • Analytics Leader/Manager
  • Business Users

     

3. Explore & Visualize

     Focus: Build Dashboards, Reports, and Visualizations    
    
   

Learn how to simplify data preparation, get the most out of your BI solutions, and provide the easy dashboarding, reporting, and visualization that today’s users demand, while retaining the analytic governance, scalability and security that are essential in a self-service world.

        
     

Recommended for these Job Roles: 

  • Business Analyst
  • Business User
  • IT (BI) Administrators



4. Predict & Optimize

Focus: Explore, Model, and Deploy    


Learn how you can deliver visible contributions to the business with a portfolio of predictive, prescriptive and machine learning tools that cater to the coders and non-coders across the organization and enable the deployment of models into production faster.

    

Recommended for these Job Roles:

  • Data Science Manager
  • Data Analyst
  • Business User
  • Business Analyst



5. Manage

Focus: Manage your data    
 

Adopt a future-proof hybrid data management approach with operational and analytical workloads for uncovering actionable data-driven insights while optimizing large, diverse data volumes and remaining compatible with existing systems.

    

Recommended for these Job Roles:      

  • Data Architects
  • IT


Focus: Establish a Trusted Analytics Foundation    
        

Learn how organizations know, trust, and use their data built on a trusted analytics foundation with Unified Governance and Integration. This analytics foundation empowers information stakeholders with ability to discover, understand, integrate, govern, find and self-serve structured and unstructured high-quality data at any scale—in any multi-cloud data environment.

        

Recommended for these Job Roles:

  • Chief Data/Chief Analytics Officers
  • Chief Marketing Officer
  • Data Architects / Engineers