Modern Data Platform with Microsoft Fabric
Overview
Description
Accountants are the most essential force of providing business intelligence and are often tasked to “modernize” or “leverage analytics”. However, when working with IT specialists or AI engineers/data scientists, unavoidable jargons like “lakehouse”, “compute cluster”, “data lake” present challenge to effective communications. This session builds a strong literacy and overcome the discomfort with modern data platform for you, through Microsoft Fabric, a powerful data platform deeply integrated with Microsoft Power BI. Whether you are extending your knowledge beyond Power BI, leading enterprise modernization projects, working with specialists, or contemplating on strategic investment choices in analytics/AI, you will walk away with valuable knowledge.
Length
4 hours
Key Takeaways
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
Understand key concepts and components of modern analytics workflows annd design patterns.
Understand key concepts and components from data platform and how it supports analytics workflows.
Understand the basic concepts of advanced analytics (e.g. predictive analytics and AIs): how they work at a high level and how they fit into organization data platform
Understand key roles and talent needs to support advanced analytics workflows/applications.
Explore current analytics landscape and data technology landscape.
Target Audience
You can be:
An analyst or staff accountant, who are modernizing enterprise reporting, plan to build enterprise analytics applications or, collaborate with technical staff/consultants to achieve the same ends.
A manager, who would like to plan or lead modernization efforts (reporting, analytics, process improvements etc.) more strategically, intentionally and effectively, especially when it comes to collaborating with IT or technical consultants.
Prerequisite(s)
No prior experience with programming required. Everyone is welcome to join.