Business Analyst Certification Master's Program

Business Analyst - Master Program

- A unique training and certification program!

- A total of 14 courses & certifications!

- In partnership with IBM and EY.

Business analyst tools and techniques are among the most in-demand and highest-paying skills in the digital economy. Accelerate your career with our acclaimed Business Analyst Master's Program, featuring the perfect blend of practical skills, with real-world case studies, extensive hands-on exercises, and master classes by IBM and EY industry experts. This Master's program combines self-study with online videos and virtual classes. Mentoring sessions provide a highly engaged learning experience and real-world applications, allowing you to master essential business analysis skills. You will gain in-depth knowledge of concepts such as data analysis, statistics, Agile Scrum methodologies, MS Excel, Tableau, R, Python, and SQL databases. This will prepare you for a career in business analytics.

Information about the program

• 11 months Online Classroom bootcamp and eLearning (self-paced)
• 1 year access to learning platform and class recordings
• Industry recognized certifications from IBM
• Masterclasses from IBM experts
• Earn 35 PDs/CDUs and 25 PMI PDUs upon completion of CBAP® module
• Earn 22 PMI PDUs upon completion of the CCBA® module
• The CBAP and CCBA courses are aligned with the standards of the IIBA® BABOK V3
• Harvard Business Publishing case studies of Pearson and EvCard
• Capstone from 3 domains and 14+ projects
• Course and materials are in English

About EY Learning Solutions.

In today's demanding business environment, where organizational transformation and regulatory changes are constant features, a flexible and cost-effective workforce is crucial. High-quality training is an essential part of innovative talent management, to improve performance and ensure your teams can respond to today's challenges and are equipped for a successful career. At EYFAAS, we are aware of this need, which is why we have established a dedicated “Learning Solutions” practice to help companies and professionals address new requirements. FAAS Learning Solutions complements EY's primary service offering, providing business-specific learning solutions for our clients and business communities in India, Europe, Middle East and Africa. This is done with the help of a multidisciplinary team of trainers from around the world. As a globally integrated company, we give our training programs a global insight. All training programs are regularly updated to reflect changing trends and guidelines. Our practical, relevant and stimulating courses are delivered by highly competent trainers who have first-hand knowledge of the subject. We are aware that each client has a different history, size, location and sector, and therefore the programs can be tailored to meet the specific needs of your business.

Objectives of the Master's program

• Understand the basics of analytical functions and conditional formatting in Excel
• Apply statistical tools and concepts such as moving average, hypothesis testing, ANOVA and regression to datasets using Excel
• Understand the tools and techniques used to plan and monitor business analysis
• Master the concepts of requirements lifecycle management
• Gain basic knowledge of the agile perspective
• Learn how to analyze data with Tableau and become proficient in building interactive dashboards. Master the project management methodology Agile Scrum.
• Gain expertise in Agile Scrum methodology and applications, daily scrum synchronization, sprint planning and review.
• Understand the basic concepts of Business Analysis and the Business Analysis Core Model (BACCM).
• Gain advanced knowledge on how to identify, define, assess and complete different parts of business analysis tasks.
• Master SQL concepts, such as the Universal Query Tool (UQT) and SQL commands.
• Plan, implement, monitor and track Scrum projects
• Embrace agile philosophy and gain in-depth knowledge of Scrum
• Apply Scrum effectively in your organizations

Prerequisites

An undergraduate degree in any field with basic knowledge of mathematics and statistics.

Who should enroll in this program?

This program is aimed at professionals from a variety of industries and backgrounds; the diversity of our students brings richness to classroom discussions and interactions. Aspiring professionals with analytical backgrounds are best suited for the Business Analyst Master's Programme, inclusive.

Below are some professional profiles that are ideal students for this course:

• Aspiring Business Analysts - including recent graduates and those looking for a career change.
• Other positions performing business analysis tasks, such as administrators, managers and project managers.
• IT professionals
• Beginners in the field of data analysis
• Project managers
• Banking and finance professionals
• Marketing managers
• Operators of chain networks

Training curriculum

1. Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®)
2. Tableau training
3. Data analysis and visualization with Python
4. Final project Business Analysis
5. Mathematical optimization for business problems
6. Harvard Business Publishing Case Studies for Business Analysis
   
   Master certificate
   
   * And you get individual certificates for each course.

Extra/optional courses

• Masterclass for Business Analysts
• Masterclass in Business Analysis - EY
• Agile Scrum Master
• Certification of Capability in Business Analysis™ (CCBA®)
• SQL training
• Data Science with R
• Business Analysis with Excel Statistics Fundamentals for Data Science

You do not need to take these courses to get your Master Certificate. You have the option to take these courses as part of the overall program.

Curriculum

1. Certified Business Analysis Professional

This CBAP certification training will enable you to master the highest skills in business analysis, including advanced documentation, effective planning and design of business solutions. This course covers the core business analysis model and the six knowledge areas of the BABOK® Guide Version 3 and prepares you for the IIBA-CBAP exam.

Objectives

• Planning and controlling business analysis
• Elicitation and collaboration
• Managing the requirements lifecycle
• Strategic analysis
• Requirements analysis and design definition
• Perspective on business intelligence
• Perspectives on business architecture
• Perspective on business process management

Curriculum

• Lesson 01 - Introduction to CBAP certification
• Lesson 02 - Introduction to BABOK V3
• Lesson 03 - Business Analysis Planning and Control
• Lesson 04 - Elicitation and collaboration
• Lesson 05 - Managing the requirements lifecycle
• Lesson 06 - Strategic analysis
• Lesson 07 - Requirements analysis and design definition
• Lesson 08 - Evaluating solutions
• Lesson 09 - Agile perspective
• Lesson 10 - The Business Intelligence perspective
• Lesson 11 - Information Technology Perspective
• Lesson 12 - Perspective on enterprise architecture
• Lesson 13 - Business process management perspective

2. Training in Tableau

This Tableau course will help you understand how to build visualizations, organize data, and design charts and dashboards to make more meaningful business decisions. You will be introduced to the concepts of data visualization, various combo charts and stories, working with filters, parameters and sets, and building interactive dashboards.

Key learning objectives

After this phase you will be able to

• Become an expert in visualization techniques such as heat maps, treemaps, waterfalls, Pareto
• Understand metadata and its use
• Work with filters, parameters and sets
• Master some field types and Tableau-generated fields as well as the process of creating and using parameters
• Learn how to create charts, interactive dashboards and story interfaces and how to share your work
• Master the concepts of data blending, creating data extracts, and organizing and formatting data
• Master arithmetic, logic, tabular and LOD calculations

Curriculum

• Lesson 1 - Getting started with Tableau.
• Lesson 2 - Key topics in Tableau.
• Lesson 3 - Creating charts in Tableau.
• Lesson 4 - Working with metadata.
• Lesson 5 - Filters in Tableau.
• Lesson 6 - Applying analytics to the spreadsheet.
• Lesson 7 - Dashboard in Tableau.
• Lesson 8 - Making changes to data connections.
• Lesson 9 - Introduction to the level of detail in Tableau (LODS).

3. Data Analysis and visualization with Python

Grow beyond data analysis spreadsheets. Perform statistical analysis and create meaningful data visualizations with Python. This course will take you from the basics of Python to exploring many different data types. You will learn how to prepare data for analysis, perform simple statistical analysis, create meaningful data visualizations, and predict future trends from data.

Key learning objectives

• Learn to analyze data with Python
• Learn to import datasets, clean up and prepare data for analysis
• Summarize data and build machine learning models with sci-kit-learn
• Build data pipelines
• Learn libraries for data visualization in Python, namely Matplotlib, Seaborn and Folium

Curriculum

• Lesson 01 - Data analysis with Python
• Lesson 02 - Data Visualization with Python

4. Mathematical Optimization for Business Problems

Build optimization models to solve business problems in this course. In this course, you will learn various aspects of mathematical programming to construct optimization models using IBM Decision Optimization technology.

Key learning objectives

• Learn how to model and solve an optimization model
• Learn the basics of the optimization model, e.g. data, decision variables, objective functions and constraints
• Understand the different possible solutions and mathematical programming techniques for optimization.

Curriculum

• Lesson 01 - The big picture
• Lesson 02 - Linear programming
• Lesson 03 - Network models
• Lesson 04 - Beyond simple LP
• Lesson 05 - Practical modeling

5. Final Project Business Analysis

Enhance your business analysis skills with a hands-on, industry-relevant capstone project, bringing together each course into a portfolio-worthy final project. You'll be offered 8 hours of mentoring with industry-savvy trainers over a 4-week period. This will enhance your business analysis skills with practical and industry-relevant projects, while bringing each course together into a portfolio. Students can choose from the following three industries to work on in their final project:

Online Pantry

A leading global e-commerce company wants to create a Pantry feature to sell daily necessities. This would be a further enhancement to the company's current website or app. This would be the company's first step into the market for groceries that are consumed regularly and purchased monthly.

E-fixed deposits

A world-leading bank currently has a manual option to create a fixed deposit. Bank users go to the nearest Citibank branch and make a fixed deposit. Citibank wants to become a 100% online bank in the future and wants to do away with all manual banking processes. They have identified the need to create an electronic fixed deposit.

Management system for restaurants

An American celebrity chef runs his own chain of restaurants in several cities in the US. He wanted a new restaurant management system to track the daily operations of his restaurant.

6. Harvard Business Publishing Case Studies for Business Analysis

Learn the concepts of business analysis with the help of practical case studies written by Harvard Business School professors and other top business educators. These case studies will help you analyze business situations and different aspects of decision-making to help you solve business problems.

7. final project of the course

Project 1: Ordering system for Unilever canteen

Design an online portal for Unilever's canteen that allows employees to order their food online, reducing waiting time, reducing food waste and increasing the chance of them getting the food they want.

Project 2: Library management system for Stanford

Design a library management software for Stanford University, which automates library activities such as providing instant and accurate information about any book, journal or research paper.

Project 3: WhatsApp Pay

Help WhatsApp design a business model to get at least one million users to use the WhatsApp Pay feature in the first three months after launch, so that 30 percent of WhatsApp users use the service.

Project 4: Hospital management system for Mayo Clinic

Design a hospital management system for Mayo Clinic to efficiently manage and coordinate administrative activities between departments, such as patient records, bed availability, patient billing, and physician appointment scheduling.

8. Optional extra courses - Bonus material

You do not need to take these courses to obtain your Master Certificate. You have the option to take these courses as part of the overall program.

Masterclass for Business Analysts - IBM

Attend interactive online masterclasses from IBM and gain insight into the latest techniques in business analysis.

iBusiness Analysis Masterclass - EY

Attend interactive online masterclasses from EY's industry experts and gain insight into the latest technologies in business analysis.

Certification of Capability in Business Analysis™ (CCBA®)

This Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA) training covers the fundamental skills required of business analysis professionals based on industry standards and benchmarks from the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) and others. You will become adept at identifying a company's needs so that the most applicable solutions can be identified and implemented, producing reliable, quality results with increased efficiency and consistency.

Agile Scrum Master

This online Agile Scrum Master course introduces you to the best practices of Agile and the nuances of the Scrum methodology. Master the Agile Scrum project management methodology and improve your ability to develop and deliver quality products to customers. Use this popular method to maximize business value and reduce potential risks.

SQL

This course gives you all the information you need to get started with SQL databases and use the database in your applications. Learn how to structure your database, write effective SQL statements and clauses, and manage your SQL database for scalable growth.

Data Science with R

This course gives you the opportunity to apply your data science skills in a variety of businesses to analyze data and make more informed business decisions. The course covers data exploration, visualization, predictive analytics, and descriptive analytics techniques using the R language. You will learn about R packages, how to import and export data in R, data structures in R, various statistical concepts, cluster analysis and forecasting.

Business Analysis with Excel

Boost your analysis career with powerful new skills in Microsoft Excel. This business analysis course provides you with all the concepts and skills needed for a robust analysis career. You'll learn the fundamental concepts of data analysis and statistics, which contribute to data-driven decision making.

Essential statistics for data science

Make effective data-driven decisions using statistics. The course covers the basic concepts of statistics, such as descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing and regression.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

What is the value of a Master Certificate?

AVC's Master's programs help you master in-demand skills at a faster pace and increase your marketability. Whatever your career goals, whether you are an entry-level professional or looking for skill development opportunities to change careers, AVC's Master's programs will help accelerate those goals. These certificates are in high demand.

Note: We are not a university and do not award university degrees. This Master's means that you have gone through the entire program and gained all the essential knowledge of the subject and thus have fully mastered the subject. Each course/part of the program also results in a certificate.

What knowledge and experience is required for the Master's programs?

In general, no previous experience is required to participate in the program. The training starts at the introductory level and proceeds (step by step) to the expert level. However, it is always helpful if you have basic knowledge or experience of the subject. Read more about your specific course details.

This program is self-paced, so you can learn at your own pace. You will start with a practical e-learning module, followed by a series of online courses tailored to your needs where you have the freedom to choose the dates and times that best suit your schedule - and if you miss a session, you can easily reschedule it. Each session is recorded so that you can go through the material as many times as needed.

By the end of the program, you will have gained extensive knowledge and be able to demonstrate and apply it in a variety of practical tasks and projects.

How long does it take to complete the Master's program?

Due to the combination of eLearning and online live classroom bootcamp, the program normally takes 11 months long (5-10 hours/week) but you can do it faster on request. Don't hesitate to contact us for a better solution! Some people can go through the program quite quickly (about 3 months), others need more time. Note: Some other Master programs take longer. This is an estimate. You will have 365 days of access to the program's eLearning videos and class recordings.

What is the set-up for the Master programs? Do I have to come to a training center?

The majority of the programs are entirely based on distance learning. Most of them include intensive online bootcamps with eLearning that you can complete at your own pace. These Learning Paths consist of different courses and topics that are related to specific skills for a role or job. There are also online classroom sessions via our advanced professional distance learning system. There are a range of different time slots to choose from and we always record the sessions so you can listen to them if you miss something or want to review information. Someone is always on hand to help and support you if you have any questions about the skills you are learning.

When can I take Master's online courses?

The timing of the courses varies from group to group. You will have access to a dashboard with several time slots for each session or topic, so you can choose what works best for you. Sessions can be scheduled on weekday afternoons, weekend mornings or evenings, depending on participants' interest and trainer availability. If you miss a session, you can always catch up by watching the recordings, so you never miss any content.

When can I unlock my Master Certificate?

Once you have completed at least 85% of the course material, your certificate will be unlockable. This applies to all Master programs. One of the criteria for obtaining the Master Certificate is to participate in the live courses. However, exceptions can be made if you are not able to attend live, but watching the recordings is still required. Find out more about your specific course or email us for more information.