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Business Intelligence (Fall 2011)

Course code : PRBUS-U1
ECTS Credits : 5 Status : Compulsory
Placement : 2. semester Hours per week : 4
Length : 1 semester Teaching Language : Danish

Principal Content : Overview of Business Intelligence and typical risk factors (pitfalls)
The relationship between business strategies and the BI function
The main components of an information system
The difference between data, information, and knowledge
How to create an information wheel and develop an information strategy
Maturity models
The competences and role of the analyst
Quantitative analytics, data mining, and reporting
Data warehouse, ETL, data marts, and SQL
Data-creating source systems
Business Intelligence Competence Center (BICC)
Business requirement and business cases
The BI software vendors and practical BI solutions
Developing your own BI solution by using MS Excel
Teaching method : Lectures with discussions, learning tasks, and casework in groups
Required prequisites : -
Responsible teacher : Jesper Thorlund , jestu@dtu.dk