Build on your skills to advance your data analytics career

Business intelligence (BI) uses various processes and tools to turn raw data into easy-to-understand, actionable information. Organisations rely on this information to make better strategic and operational business decisions.

Business intelligence analysts create processes and information channels that transform data into actionable insights that can inform business decisions. Some example problems for BI include measuring performance, tracking revenue or spending, and monitoring progress.

Data analytics and BI share a lot of common ground: They are both fields in which professionals use data to create insights that inform decision-making. Data analysts share insights via a report while BI professionals build a dashboard for stakeholders to monitor themselves. BI is more focused on making data readily available and easily understandable by organisational leaders. BI professionals retrieve and prepare data from multiple sources to then create reports and dashboards that make the data - and insights from the data - easily accessible.

The Google Business Intelligence Certificate is designed for people working in data analytics or graduates of the Google Data Analytics Certificate programme who want to boost their data analytics skills.

Enrolling in the Google Business Intelligence Certificate will teach you the skills to advance your career to become a business intelligence analyst, business intelligence engineer, or business intelligence developer. Business intelligence professionals know how to ask the right question; prepare, process, and analyse data for key insights; effectively share their findings with stakeholders; and provide data-driven recommendations for thoughtful action.

You'll learn these job-ready skills in our certificate programme through interactive content (discussion prompts, quizzes, and activities) in under six months, with under 10 hours of flexible study a week. Along the way, you'll work through a curriculum designed with input from top employers and industry leaders, like Tableau, Accenture, and Deloitte. You'll even have the opportunity to complete a case study that you can share with potential employers to showcase your new skill set.

The business intelligence tools and platforms included in the certificate curriculum are BigQuery, SQL, and Tableau.

In addition to expert training and hands-on projects designed to prepare you for a job in your field of choice, you’ll have access to career resources like Interview Warmup, a tool that lets you practise interview questions based on Google Career Certificate fields.

The Google Business Intelligence Certificate costs $49 USD^† per month on Coursera after an initial 7-day free trial period.

All Google Career Certificates are completely self-paced. At about 10 hours of study per week, many learners complete a Google Career Certificate in three to six months.

If you are interested in financial assistance for the Google Business Intelligence Certificate, you may be eligible for financial aid via Coursera through the course page. Recipients of financial aid will have full access to course content and assignments required to earn a certificate. To apply, go to the certificate course page on Coursera and click the “Financial aid available” link next to the “Enroll” button.

Interview Warmup is a tool that lets anyone practise answering interview questions, based on Google Career Certificate fields, to get more confident and comfortable with the interview process. Your answers are transcribed in real time so you can review what you said and discover patterns in your responses. Learn more here.