If you want to start a career as a BI Developer but don’t know where to start or how to get your foot in the door, then take a page out of Liam Wong’s book at join Industry Connect.

Congratulations on the new bob as a BI Developer Liam! Is there anything you would like to share with everyone about your time with us?

Actually, I’m just very grateful for to MVP Studio. You just really helped me a lot in becoming a BI Developer.

You’re welcome! I take it that means you would recommend Industry Connect to everyone?

I think fist of all I would share my experience with you guys. I would share my experience, and then I would tell them the tools that MVP Studio taught us is very useful in the IT industry. It’s not like the tools and the language we learn at university – it’s totally different.

I think it’s important for students to finish a project – not just focus on academic essays. We need to do more practical projects. And it’s also a great chance for us to expand our networking and make ore IT related friends.

So what is Business Intelligence?

Like all things in life, BI can be explained using a nice cup of tea.

First off, imagine that you went to your favourite store to buy some herbal tea.  When you pay for your tea and walk out, you may or may not know that your favourite store has gathered some new data about the herbal tea you bought, at what time you bought it, and how much you paid.

Now I want you to put yourself in the shoes of the herbal tea shop owner.  Day in and day out he has to figure out how many bags of tea leaves he should be ordering.  The only possible way for him to make an educated guess about this, is if he knows how many are being purchased by his customers.

Now, as the data sits today, the owner of the store would have to look at every single transaction made throughout each day to see how much tea was purchased.  But this takes up way too much time, and since this is a decision the owner has to make every week, he decides to use a Business Intelligence tool to provide that information.

The use of a Business Intelligence tool allows for information to be regularly rolled up and formatted just right so the owner can make a much more educated decision about how much herbal tea to purchase.  Additionally, now that the Director has more time on his hand, he can analyse in much further detail.

So basically you can think of Business Intelligence as the process of going from raw data to legible information.

As one of the fastest-growing sectors in the IT industry, a BI Developer is spoilt for choice when it comes to jobs… only if they have the experience and soft skills. We can teach you.