BI, Analytics, & Decision Support

Catalog description

This course offers students a way to learn the basics of computerized decision support by utilizing analytics, decision support systems, big data, and business intelligence along with business use cases. This course examines the Internet of Things (IoT) and Data Analytics from a technical, application, and business perspective needed to build the essential technical knowledge, processes, design principles, implementation, and marketing for IoT projects. The course provides an overview and anatomy of IoT, ecosystem of IoT, communication protocols, networking, and available hardware, both present and future applications and transformations, as well as business models. The course also addresses big data analytics, machine learning, cloud computing, and considerations of sustainability that are essential to be both socially responsible and successful in multiple disciplines, including consumer, government, and enterprise applications.