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BIDA® Program Overview
CFI’s Business Intelligence & Data Analyst (BIDA®) Certification Program will teach you the most important skills required to kickstart or advance your data analysis career. Learn how to use the most popular business intelligence tools and programming languages to explore, understand, and master data science.
Courses cover both BI and data science, spanning data storage, collection, transformation, analysis, modeling, and visualization. You’ll be equipped with best practices in various scenarios, applying skills through real-world case studies and datasets. Earn your certificate in data analytics and business intelligence, advancing your career today!
What's in the Business Intelligence & Data Analyst Program?
29 courses
Consisting of 1520+ lessons
30+ interactive exercises
Learn by doing with guided simulations
Blockchain certificate
To verify your skills
500,000+ 5-star ratings
Best-in-class training, as rated by you
Earning Your Business Intelligence & Data Analyst Certification
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Core Courses & Case Studies
Complete 15 core courses to build a strong foundation in business intelligence and data analysis.
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Elective Courses
Choose electives to explore more complex real-world scenarios and take your knowledge to the next level.
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Final Exam
After earning a minimum passing grade of 70% in each course assessment, take a final exam in BI and data analysis to earn your program certification.
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Get BIDA® Certified
Congratulations! Upon completion of the program, you will receive a blockchain-verified digital certificate with your new credentials.
Skills & Learning Objectives in BI & Data Analysis
A Step by Step Approach to Building Your Data Skills
1. Data Analysis in Excel
Master data analysis and work more efficiently using modern Excel tools including dynamic arrays, Power Query and Power Pivot.
2. BIDA Certification
Develop BI skills such as dashboarding and data manipulation using industry standard tools like Power BI, Tableau, and SQL.
3. Data Science Analyst
Go beyond descriptive analysis and learn how to work with complex datasets and predictive machine learning models.
Courses Taught by BI & Data Experts
Sebastian Taylor
Sebastian leads our BIDA® program, and has worked with a variety of BI tools across a number of industries. From quant energy risk management to financial and retail analysis, Seb loves the challenge of automating and communicating complex analysis with simplicity and clarity.
Joseph Yeates
Joseph is passionate about driving better decision making by creating, curating, and communicating insights from data. He has a degree in Business Administration and Finance, with further certifications in Business Analytics & Decision Making and Applied Database Administration & Design.
Pavel Nacev
Pavel’s passion is playing around with data and finding new and quicker ways to visually present and analyze it. Pavel routinely works with millions of rows of structured and unstructured data, transforming them into meaningful insights for business leaders.
Lester Leong
Over the course of the years, Lester Leong has been applying data science and machine learning towards business and finance to improve profitability, efficiency, and model interpretability.
Andrew Russell
Andrew has extensive experience as a software engineer. His involvement in developing bespoke applications across many different organizations has led to expertise in a variety of programming languages and frameworks.
Careers in Financial Analysis & Strategy
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Data Analyst
Collect and transform data, create data models and metrics that can be used to analyze performance. -
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Business Analyst
Business Analysts also have great analytical skills, but combine this with intimate knowledge of a business to help drive performance. -
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Quantitative Analyst / Data Scientist
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BI Developer
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Data Visualization Analyst
Deliver and present data through dashboards and visuals that help businesses make better decisions.
The BIDA® program has upskilled teams at:
What Our Students Say
Over 75% of CFI learners report improved productivity or competency within weeks.
Helped me master BIDA [business intelligence & data analytics] without any technical background. Their course structure is easily laid out, and anyone from any educational background will understand.
Bridget Bosha
Became very confident of my work. After completing the BIDA program, I was promoted.
Bridget Bosha
BIDA is a Game Changer. The content is well explained and provides step by step knowledge of the various areas.
Chilufya Mubanga
The courses are quite complete even though they are full online (e.g. no live teacher), but nevertheless there are mini-quizzes along the courses, as well as practical exercises and final exam (around 15 questions) for each of the courses you take. Quite complete, I will recommend it to someone starting in Business Intelligence & Data Analytics
Sebastian Palacio
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