micro-credential
Data Intelligence
Do you want to create real value from data and make more informed decisions? This micro-credential shows you how to develop meaningful visualizations, analyses, and forecasts from complex data. You’ll learn through hands-on experience how big data models, business intelligence, and knowledge management lead to well-informed decisions. Flexibly expand your digital skill set alongside your job and daily life.
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Earn this micro-credential to become an expert in intelligent data use and play an active role in shaping digital transformation within companies. With a focus on data warehousing and OLAP architectures, data modeling, data governance, data analysis, and data mining, you’ll acquire valuable skills to drive sustainable, data-driven innovation.
This micro-credential in the field of “Data, Information Systems, and IT Management” can be earned as part of an existing FERNFH degree program or as a standalone short program designed exclusively to lead to this qualification.
This micro-credential is offered as part of theInformation Technology | Master's program.
Courses
- Data Visualization Lab (3 ECTS, Summer Semester)
- Business & Competitive Intelligence Systems (3 ECTS, Summer Semester)
- Big Data Use Cases (3 ECTS, Winter Semester)
- Knowledge Management Tools & Enterprise Knowledge Infrastructures (3 ECTS, Winter Semester)
Skill development
Upon successful completion, students will be able to …
- Apply fundamental methods, interactions, and effects related to the visualization of characteristics, data, and their relationships.
- Select appropriate visualizations based on the target audience, the complexity, and the context.
- to critically evaluate the impact and validity of visualizations.
- Design data warehousing and OLAP architectures.
- Perform data modeling, data governance, and data analysis.
- to use data mining techniques (classification, association analysis, clustering, numerical forecasting).
- Select, adapt, and apply big data models, techniques, and tools to solve complex real-world problems.
- To evaluate knowledge management tools and measures in terms of their suitability for practical applications.
Duration of the program: 2semesters
Scope: 12 ECTS credits
Level: 7 – Graduate
Cost: €599 plus ÖH membership fee
Application deadline: July 31, 2026
Start: September 25, 2026
Application deadlines
01. Jan. 1970
Micro-credentials are typically worth 5–15 ECTS credits, which generally corresponds to two to five courses. Once you have successfully completed all the courses that make up the learning path, you will receive your micro-credential—in the form of a printed certificate and a digital badge.
Individual courses must have been completed within a 5-year period in order to count toward a micro-credential.
Upon successful completion of the MC, you will be issued a certificate of completion.
Yes, you can take as many courses—and thus earn as many micro-credentials—as you’d like. (Some courses do have enrollment limits, though.) Keep in mind: Sometimes there’s a recommended order in which to take the courses. And sometimes there’s a mandatory order.
As for the individual courses: Yes. They are structured and organized in such a way that they can usually be completed within the specified timeframe, even during busy periods. Otherwise, you might have to wait until the next academic year for exams to be offered again in your MC subject.
As for the entire MC: No. For example, if we suggest that you take two courses in the winter semester and two in the summer semester, you can also spread them out over four semesters, taking one course each semester. Or you can take even more courses and take a break in between.
The only important thing is that you must complete everything within five years of enrolling in the Micro-Credential.
In all courses that make up the MC, the course instructor must conduct a formal assessment of whether the learning outcomes have been achieved. This assessment is graded using the “school grading system,” similar to the courses in the degree programs. Simply acknowledging attendance in a course is not sufficient to earn an MC.
Exams can be administered as “open book” or “closed book,” as well as “online” or “on-site.”
“Recognition of prior learning” toward a micro-credential is only possible for courses that have been successfully completed within the last five years. Examination results from earlier than that cannot be recognized toward a micro-credential. In addition, recognized ECTS credits may not exceed one-third of the total credit hours of a micro-credential.
Conversely, courses from an MC program may also be credited toward a university of applied sciences degree if they were completed within five years prior to the start of the degree program (and if the MC courses are also part of the core, elective, or individualized curriculum of the relevant degree program).
Important:Please note that the exact options and scope of credit transfer may vary depending on the specific degree program. We therefore recommend that you contact the relevant program staff directly for specific details.