IBM Innovation Center for Education (ICE)

Business Analytics Specialist

The badge earner has excellent critical thinking, visual modelling and analytical skills and can apply statistical, descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics to business situations to define business solutions. The individual has substantial knowledge of visual modelling, process mapping and risk assessment. The badge earner also has an in depth knowledge on Data Warehouse, Big Data & Hadoop and also knows the usage of several analytical tools.

Skills

Cognos BI Cognos Consumer Insight Hadoop IBM Big Insights IBM Infosphere PHP R with Kettle R with Rattle SPSS SPSS Modeller Tableau

Program objectives

• To skill the students to identify, analyze and solve Business Analytics problems by applying knowledge of Mathematics, Science and Engineering with modern engineering tools in the specific areas of:
  • IT Infrastructure Landscape
  • Introduction to Business Analytics
  • Web Programming with PHP
  • Data warehouse & Multi Dimension Modelling
  • Data Mining & Predictive Analytics
  • Business Intelligence
  • Social, Web and Mobile Analytics
  • Big Data Analytics
• To provide conceptual knowledge in the Business Analytics domain
• To provide interdisciplinary knowledge
• To expose students with advanced tools used in industry
• To develop team work experience of professionals skills for IT Industry.

Subject Name
IT Infrastructure Landscape
Introduction to Business Analytics
Web Programming with PHP
Data Warehouse & Multidimensional modelling
Data Mining & Predictive Analytics
Business Intelligence
Social, Web & Mobile Analytics
Big Data Analytics

Program outcomes

• To demonstrate skills in Business Analytics techniques and technologies;
• To test applications with concepts of Business Analytics domain subjects;
• To demonstrate oral and written skills for technical presentations and documentation;
• To demonstrate Business Analytics projects worked on as a team

What it takes to earn this badge

• Must be a University student of a 3-year Technical Undergraduation Course enrolled in the IBM Innovation Centre for Education Program.
• Minimum attendance determined by the University in all the semesters
• Minimum marks for both Theory and Practical exam in all semesters as mandated by the University .
• The minimum number of IBM specialization subjects completed should be 7.
• Completion of projects in the relevant semesters including an external internship with grades as mandated by the University
• All the above criteria to be verified by the University.