Business intelligence is a discipline concerned with the transformation of data into meaningful and useful information for business analysis purposes. BI technologies are capable of providing interpretation of large amounts of data to identify and develop strategic business opportunities, based on insights that can provide a competitive market advantage and long-term stability. BI technologies also provide historical, current and predictive views of business operations. Common functions of business intelligence technologies are reporting and visualization, online analytical processing, analytics and data mining. These activities are designed to serve the business decision making process.
This module builds on the students’ previous background with databases and statistical analysis and covers relevant topics such as data warehousing, data preparation, data visualization and data mining.
Introduction to Business Intelligence
From Data to Knowledge
Supporting Business Decision Making
Business Intelligence Infrastructure & Applications
Gathering Requirements
Data Warehousing
Dimensional Modelling
ETL (Extract Transform Load) Data
Reporting Services
Data Visualization
Data Mining
Data Mining methodologies
Data Mining algorithms
Business Intelligence Infrastructure
Understanding Business Intelligence Infrastructure from data to knowledge
Business Intelligence Applications
Understanding the business decision making process
Business Intelligence Process
Gathering RequirementsData WarehousingDimensional ModellingETL (Extract Transform Load) DataReporting ServicesData Visualisation
Data Mining
Data Mining methodologiesData Mining algorithms
Lectures, labs, discussions and presentations
| Module Content & Assessment | |
|---|---|
| Assessment Breakdown | % |
| Formal Examination | 50 |
| Other Assessment(s) | 50 |