The Sales Excellence with Data Analytics and Visualization Certificate
The Sales Excellence with Data Analytics and Visualization Certificate is a program for aspiring sales professionals and managers who want to grow and improve an efficient business using industry tools for managing sales and customer service processes. You will develop abilities in tracking metrics, designing effective reports and dashboards, and visualizing data to communicate data-driven insights. This certificate is designed for people with no prior experience in data analytics. It will provide in-demand skills AND result in college credits that can count towards a degree.
The Sales Excellence with Data Analytics and Visualization Certificate
The Sales Excellence with Data Analytics and Visualization Certificate is a program for aspiring sales professionals and managers who want to grow and improve an efficient business using industry tools for managing sales and customer service processes. You will develop abilities in tracking metrics, designing effective reports and dashboards, and visualizing data to communicate data-driven insights. This certificate is designed for people with no prior experience in data analytics. It will provide in-demand skills AND result in college credits that can count towards a degree.
Why Sales Analytics?
Sales professionals increasingly need data skills to inform sales strategy and run efficient business processes
Sales operations specialists and customer success managers use tools like Salesforce to track the status of customer relationships
Jobs requiring Salesforce skills are expected to grow 11% in the next 10 years
4 Courses | Hands-On Learning and Career Exploration
Customer Relationship Management for Business
In this course, you’ll learn how to use Salesforce’s Sales Cloud Lightning tool and how it can be best used to facilitate the sales process. You’ll also generate reports and dashboards in the context of customer relationship management (CRM).
Learning outcomes:
Applied Business Solutions with Salesforce
In this course, you’ll build on your knowledge of fundamental Salesforce administrator skills and level up to prepare for roles such as a Salesforce Business Analyst or Sales Ops Analyst.
Learning outcomes:
Data Visualization with Tableau (Optional)
In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of data visualization, including how to communicate insights from data. You will be learning in an online lab environment using real industry data sets and building directly in Tableau software embedded in the learning experience (no downloads required). You will create and design both static and dynamic tables, data visualizations, dashboards, and stories while incorporating visual design best practices. You will also connect multiple external data sources and optimize large data to efficiently wrangle and analyze industry data.
Learning outcomes:
Introduction to Salesforce Administration (Optional)
This course is designed to give you the skills of a starting Salesforce Administrator. You’ll explore Salesforce user management, platform customization, user interface configuration and more. You’ll even create a custom app to meet specific business use cases and generate reports to address specific requests.
Learning outcomes:
What You’ll Learn:
After completing this program, you’ll be ready to:
- Identify insights from data using exploratory data analysis and communicate insights to business stakeholders
- Build reports, charts and dashboards to communicate relevant information about the sales process to stakeholders and executives
- Design and build custom Salesforce apps that support business requirements
- Standardize custom business processes and perform automated actions
Learning Experience
- No required times to log in. Complete lessons at times during the week that work for you. Keep up with deadlines to stay on track and complete in under 4 months.
- Complete real business projects in an online platform and get individualized support and feedback from instructors.
- Practice using software directly in the learning platform. No separate downloads.
- Explore the real work that sales and customer service managers do on the job and apply those skills to your own career.
FAQs
What is the schedule?
There are two required courses and two optional courses which will be open for 5 weeks with a 1-week grading period after each. You should expect to spend approximately 5 hours per week completing your coursework. The program is flexibly-paced, meaning you can move as quickly or slowly as you’d like through each course, as long as you complete all sections and projects during the 5-week course period. We provide a suggested course schedule to help pace yourself through each course. Students who follow this schedule are more likely to earn the certificate and get more out of the course by spreading out their workload, and our instructors provide weekly nudges to keep you on track. As long as you submit all projects by the course end date, you can progress through the course at whatever pace works best for you! For example, you might do all your work over the weekend or space it out throughout the week.
Can I work full-time while enrolled in this program?
Yes, the entire course experience is online and can be completed on your own schedule as long as you work towards the deadlines set in each course. There are no set times or classes when you need to log in. Our courses are designed for working professionals, students, and parents!
What prerequisites do I need?
Students must have a high school degree prior to taking this program. No prior experience is required.