Business Intelligence & Information Technology

Catalog description

This course examines Business Intelligence for Information Technology and provides exposure to various decision support systems in order to provide business intelligence and analytics to strengthen some kind of choice process. The course reflects on integration of theory and practice and provides a relationship of DSS design concepts to the “real world.” Analytics techniques and their applications are demonstrated in order to learn from how other organizations have employed analytics to make decisions or to gain competitive advantage. The course describes techniques and introduces specific software tools that can be used for developing analytics applications and provides an experience of these techniques using any number of available software methods. The use of intelligence technology is integrated with the data and models used by decision makers in order to show how the understanding of analytics and models is the key to a successful application.