Business Analytics with AI — The Professional Programme for Data-Driven Teams

This is a structured professional programme that combines classical business analytics with AI-powered workflows. Participants learn the full analytics value chain — defining business questions, extracting and cleaning data, building BI dashboards, applying AI tools to speed up analysis, and communicating findings to decision-makers. The programme uses Excel, Power BI, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot as the core tool stack. It is designed for analysts, managers and teams who want to be more data-driven in their decision-making — without needing a data science background. To pair this with SQL skills, see our SQL Training in Bangalore.

AI accelerates every stage of the analytics workflow. In data preparation, ChatGPT writes Excel formulas, Power Query transformations and SQL queries from plain English descriptions. In analysis, Microsoft Copilot in Power BI surfaces patterns and anomalies automatically. In insight communication, AI drafts the narrative summary around your data — the "so what" explanation that accompanies every chart. This programme integrates AI tools at each step of the analytics process, so participants complete analyses in half the time with greater depth. The goal is AI-augmented analytics — not replacing analytical thinking, but removing the mechanical parts that slow it down.

Yes. The programme is built for business users who work with data in Excel, Power BI or Google Sheets and want to produce better analysis faster. No programming or statistics background is required. Participants need to be comfortable with Excel at a basic level — understanding rows, columns and basic formulas. Everything else is taught from first principles. We have delivered this programme to finance managers, operations heads, marketing analysts, HR business partners and general managers across India.

Business analytics describes and diagnoses what happened — it answers questions like "Which products are driving revenue decline?" and "Why is customer satisfaction dropping in one region?" Data science goes further — it predicts what will happen and prescribes what to do about it, using statistical models and machine learning. This programme focuses on business analytics — practical, decision-oriented analysis using BI tools and AI. Data science requires Python, statistics and ML knowledge beyond the scope of this programme. Our Production AI Engineering course covers advanced AI and ML for technical professionals.

Yes — corporate delivery is the most common format for this programme. We customise datasets, tools and case studies to reflect your industry and business context. A BFSI analytics team gets banking case studies; a retail analytics team gets FMCG use cases. We can also tailor the BI tools module to your specific platform — Power BI, Tableau or Google Looker. Corporate programmes typically run as 3–5 day intensives on-site or online. See our broader corporate AI training offering at AI Training India.

The core tool stack is: Microsoft Excel (advanced: Power Query, PivotTables, dynamic arrays), Power BI (data modelling, DAX measures, dashboard design), ChatGPT and Claude for AI-augmented analysis, and Microsoft Copilot (in Excel and Power BI). We also cover Google Sheets with Gemini integration for teams in Google Workspace environments. Every tool is taught in the context of a real business analysis workflow — not as isolated feature demos.