The student:
- Can explain the need for computerized support of managerial decision making;
- Can explain the business intelligence (BI) methodology and concepts and can relate them to decision support systems (DSS);
- Can design data models, database schemas, and SQL queries;
- Can apply data management and web-related technologies (e.g., MySQL);
- Can design, access and use a database for simple Web-based applications;
- Can apply the basic definitions and concepts of data warehouses;
- Can evaluate and compare the different types of data warehousing architectures;
- Can explain the process of developing and managing data warehouses and collecting data for business intelligence applications;
- Can analyse the all-encompassing nature of performance management (BPM) and apply some of the best practices in planning and management reporting;
- Can evaluate the objectives and benefits of business analytics and data mining, recognize the wide range of applications of data mining;
- Can apply, compare and evaluate the theoretical knowledge of BI in designing and implementing BI applications.
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The course will introduce students to business intelligence concepts and provide them with an understanding of how to represent information using data models; create, populate and query a database; create a data warehouse to analyze and solve business problems, extract data patterns using data mining techniques, represent insights using dashboards.
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