Enrolling in the Google Business Intelligence Certificate will teach you 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 questions; prepare, process, and analyze data for key insights; effectively share their findings with stakeholders; and provide data-informed recommendations for thoughtful action.

You'll learn these job-ready skills in our certificate program through interactive content (discussion prompts, quizzes, and activities) in under six months, with less than 10 hours of flexible study per 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.

After you've graduated from the program, you'll have access to career resources and the opportunity to connect directly with over 150 employers who are hiring for open positions in business intelligence.

The courses offered in the Google Business Intelligence Certificate are:

• Foundations of Business Intelligence
• The Path to Insights: Data Models and Pipelines
• Decisions, Decisions: Dashboards and Reports

The data analysis tools and platforms included in the certificate curriculum are BigQuery, Tableau, and SQL.

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

Organizations of all kinds need business intelligence professionals to organize, analyze, and report data to inform decision-makers. Business intelligence jobs exist in various industries, from technology to finance to entertainment.

Companies must continually adjust their products, services, tools, and business strategies to meet consumer preferences and demand, and to react to emerging trends. This makes a career as a data analyst an in-demand option with competitive pay.

Data analysts make sense of data and numbers to help organizations make better business decisions. They prepare, process, analyze, and visualize data, discovering patterns and trends and answering key questions along the way. Their work gives the wider team greater context and knowledge to make more informed decisions.

The Google Business Intelligence Certificate was designed and built by subject-matter experts and senior practitioners at Google. This certificate has been created to equip learners with advanced theoretical and practical knowledge in data analysis, as well as real-life problem-solving skills to further your career as a data professional.