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Lithan Hall Academy Singapore, in partnership with WDA, offers the following NICF courses to upgrade your skills.

All of these courses have funding of course fees by WDA Singapore (for Singaporeans and Permanent Residents).

NICF Business Intelligence (BI) Applications

Developed by Victoria University, Australia, this course intends to provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills to design implement and maintain a data warehouse solution. A Data Warehouse has become an essential tool in a company's strategic decision-making process. A datawarehouse is not simply a copy of a transactional database system; it has its own architecture and stores data in a specific format that allows for in-depth analysis of data.


Benefits of the courses:

On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

  • Understand how data warehouse systems differ from operational information systems
  • Understand how the concepts of Business Intelligence can assist an organisation with its decision-making processes
  • Analyse the requirements for such systems from a management perspective
  • Transform user requirements into a conceptual data model
  • Transfer the conceptual model into data warehouse system (SAP BIW)
  • Extract, transform and load data from various data sources
  • Design and implement reports from within a data warehouse system

Course Outline

The course will cover following topics:

  • Introduction to Business Intelligence (SAP BIW)
  • Conceptual Data Modelling
  • SAP Meta Objects
  • InfoCube Design
  • ETL (Extraction, transfer and loading of data from the source systems)
  • Reporting Best Practices
  • Reporting Tools
  • Dashboarding
  • Reporting Strategy
  • Implementation
  • Future of BI

To Find out more information about the NICF Business Intelligence (BI) Applications course, fill up the form on the right.


Course Duration

36 hours
 
Delivery Method

This course will be delivered 1 session (3hours – 2 hour lecture and 1 hour tutorial) a week over 12 weeks. Students will be given sufficient time for hands-on practice on the SAP System through self-paced learning/ practice sessions. Students are expected to spend at least ten hours per week studying for this course (including lecture and tutorial sessions). Practice sessions should be spent on reading, research and working on exercises. Workloads may be greater for periods when students need to complete assignments or to prepare for tests.

Graduation requirement

Candidates for graduation need to pass the following assessments:

  • Data warehouse Modelling
  • Research Paper
  • Class Test
  • Final Exam (practical)
The following awards will be issued to graduands who successfully pass the assessments.
  • IT-CIO-504S-1 Review reports and formulate action plan (awarded by WDA)
  • IT-DM-401S-1 Build Database (awarded by WDA)
  • SAP BI Alliance Certificate offered by Victoria University and SAP Australia
An exemption will be given to graduates for one module of the Masters of Business (ERP Systems) programme offered by Victoria University, Australia.

Course Schedule

To be advised.

NICF BI Overview (Corporate)

Developed by Lithan Hall Academy, Singapore, this short program provides participants with an overview of Business intelligence (BI) technologies and applications. This course also deals with best practices for the collection, integration, analysis, and presentation of business information. In this course, participants will be able to understand the purpose of business intelligence and how it supports better business decision-making. This course provides an overview of the technology of BI and the application of BI to an organization's strategies and goals.

Benefits of the courses:

On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

  • Explain the concepts and components of Business Intelligence
  • Analyse how Business Intelligence can help an organization and whether it can help yours
  • Identify the technological architecture that makes up Business Intelligence systems
  • Plan the implementation of a Business Intelligence system
Course Outline

Day Course Topics Duration Trainer
1 Understanding Business Intelligence
  • The challenge of decision making
  • What is business intelligence?
  • The business intelligence value proposition
  • The combination of business and technology
The Spectrum of Business Intelligence
  • Strategic and tactical business intelligence
  • Power and usability in business intelligence
  • Business intelligence an art or science?
 7 hours Trainer representing LHA
2 Business Intelligence: Is it for you?
  • How do you know?
  • Customizing business intelligence
    • Start with questions
    • What good is the information?
Designing business intelligence project plan
  • Planning the plan
  • Resources and roles
  • Risk management
  • Data migration issues
Human factors
  • The business intelligence technology team
  • The users don't want it
  • What is it for?
"Could be" as opposed to "should be" Choosing the right size, shape and cost
  • Architecture alternatives
  • User-oriented architecture
 7 hours Trainer representing LHA
3
  • Current challenges and issues faced by organisation and what are the suitable solutions available
  • Case studies conducted by Solution Specialist or Technology Specialist
  • How the does the solution address the concerns of the industry
  • Future growth and scope
  • Demonstration of the technology or solution
 7 hours Industry Speaker
4 Student Assessment 3.5 hours LHA Assessor

To Find out more information about the NICF BI Overview (Corporate), fill up the form on the right.

Course Duration

24.5 hours
 
Delivery Method

  • 3 ½ days
  • 3 days of training and ½ day assessment

Graduation requirement

Candidates for graduation need to pass the following assessments:

  • Test
  • Case Studies
The following awards will be issued to graduands who successfully pass the assessments.
  • IT-CIO-601S-1 Determine appropriate IT strategies and solutions (awarded by WDA)
  • IT-CIO-508S-1 Identify and implement business innovation needs (awarded by WDA)

Course Schedule

To be advised.

Course Fees for NICF BI Courses

For Self-sponsored Students

This programme is available to Singaporeans and Permanent Residents (local trainees) only. The following programme fees apply (in Singapore Dollars).

For Singapore Citizens & Permanent Residents Only
Full Course fee $2,800
WDA subsidy (70%) -$1,960
Processing Fee $100
Payable Course Fee Plus Processing Fee $940

Remark: Above fees are exclusive of 7% GST

For Company-sponsored Students

To encourage more Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to send their workers for skills upgrading and to enhance productivity, the Government will be increasing the funding subsidy for this group. The Enhanced Training Support for SMEs will help SMEs further lower the cost of sending their employees for certifiable training programmes supported by the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA). SMEs will get to enjoy subsidies of 90% of the course fees when they sponsor their employees for the above-mentioned courses as well as claim absentee payroll funding of 80% of basic hourly salary at a higher cap of $7.50 per hour. This three-year initiative will take effect from 1 July 2012

For more details on the additional funding, please click here
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs.

Employers are eligible to claim a Tax rebate under the Productivity Innovation Credit (PIC) Scheme.

Sample fee calculation for company-sponsored student:

For Singapore Citizens & Permanent Residents Only
Full Course fee $2,800
WDA subsidy (70%) -$1,960
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (20%) -$560
Processing Fee $100
Payable Course Fee Plus Processing Fee $380

Remarks: Above fees are exclusive of absentee payroll claims and exclusive of 7% GST

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