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December 9, 2009
DW/BI Courses in school
This particular blog entry may not make much sense if you are from outside India. Or it may. Well, not too much anyway.
This piece on the web caught my attention. DW/BI has evolved to be one of the most popular career paths in the business technology space, yet schools have been much slower in adopting DW/BI as part of their curriculum.
Hiring organizations would surely appreciate candidates who come in with sound fundamental knowledge in the DW/BI space; today most of these organizations resort to extensive training for the freshers that join. These training programs last from anything between 3 months to 1 year. It is only after this that the new entrants can be gainfully employed.
A 4-pronged strategy could be adopted by universities to plug this gap:
- DW/BI fundamentals should be a mandatory course in all CS/IS/MIS/BCA/MCA programs
- Focused courses on ETL, Dimensional modeling, reporting and analysis, dashboarding and visualizations, performance management etc. could be offered in under grad courses. Hands on sessions on these could be facilitated through use of MS or open source licenses.
- Certificate programs in DW/BI which mandate completion of a certain specific number of DW/BI units could be offered to full-time as well as part-time students
- Specializations on DW/BI could be offered as post-grad courses after tie-up with a commercial BI vendor.
With all this industry-university linkage in prevalence, is it too much to hope that some of this will be a reality in the not-so-distant future?
Posted by Rajesh Ramaswamy at December 9, 2009 6:15 AM
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