Symbinar - Mr. Amit Chandak
Symbinar - Mr. Amit Chandak
Topic: "Impact of COVID-19 on Business Analytics Sector, and Learning COVID-19 Data Analysis on Microsoft Power BI"
Date: 14th June 2020, Sunday
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
As a part of the live webinar series ‘Symbinar’, SIBMH hosted Mr. Amit Chandak, Chief Analytics Officer, Kanerika Software Pvt. Ltd., who spoke on the topic ‘Impact of COVID-19 on Business Analytics Sector, and Learning COVID-19 Data Analysis on Microsoft Power BI.’
Mr. Chandak began by talking about the impact of COVID on business analytics, supply chain and the stock market. He pointed out that the budget for IT industry has reduced by 68% and 13% of staff are working from home or are under layoff.
He also explained that BI, AI and RPA have become more prominent than they were in 2008, making the current year as fully data-driven. Work from home has become the new normal and businesses today need BI as a crucial part of it. In his words, Power BI is the leading BI analytics tool, and allows good integration with other tools.
In the later part of the session, Mr. Chandak gave the students the hands-on experience of basic operations on the Microsoft Power BI tool, and explained how to read and analyze the data on COVID-19. He shared certain data files and made the students to work on them on the Microsoft platform. The students had a great experience learning the new tool, and the session turned out extremely fruitful.
The session was followed by Q&A where students came up with their queries and displayed their strong interest in learning the new concept. We look forward to hosting more such pleasing and informative webinars with our respected guest.