This course has definitely met my expectations and goals for the month of June 2015. This course has walked me through the all the practices of Business Intelligence and how it’s used in the market. The lessons were easy to understand and apply to real life scenarios. I learn the four business intelligence capabilities and how it will benefit an organization looking to improve their business revenue. At first I had my mind-set on Real Estate but as I researched each week it made me think about the possibilities in other industries in the market. This course has definitely change my perspective and open my eyes to other ideas and industries. In this class I truly focused on the reading all the materials that was provided,because I didn’t want to miss anything. After the first week of the course I knew it was going to challenge my knowledge and abilities to complete each assignment. Each week I accomplished several tutorials on Visio and learn how to create useful and informative diagrams to present to the class. These were my favorite assignments throughout the week because I was able to practice what I learned through the tutorials and apply them into real life situations. In this course, I received clarity on the foundation of business intelligence. I learned the four Organizational Memory Capabilities, which are data warehouse, transactional system, enterprise resource planning system and technologies supporting unstructured data and their functions within an organization and the benefits. Organizational Memory Capabilities is the foundational of BI is the storage of information and knowledge where it data is found and used for later date to help organization on real-time decision or marketing ideas. The information I learned this month has truly help me build confident in how I am able to help organization in the market. After learning about the different vendors that will help me enhance my knowledge and analytical skills will only help me succeed in my career on how to build business cases for BI and benefit business intelligence can improve companies customer services, revenue and improve decision-making.














