Course ID: | MIST 5620. 3 hours. |
Course Title: | Business Intelligence |
Course Description: | Business intelligence provides the highest level of information support to aid the manager in the decision-making process. This course provides the skills necessary to conceptualize, build, and implement systems utilizing business intelligence in organizations. |
Oasis Title: | Business Intelligence |
Prerequisite: | (MIST 4610 or MIST 4610E) and (BUSN 4000 or BUSN 4000E) |
Semester Course Offered: | Offered every year. |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | The major objectives of the course are for the student to develop an understanding
of the role of computers in direct support of managerial decision making based on
business intelligence and to apply this understanding, as well as prerequisite
programming skills, to the design of typical systems for managerial decision support.
Specifically, each student should be able to:
1. Understand how systems utilize business intelligence to support managerial
decision making.
2. Understand the concepts of decision support systems, executive information
systems, knowledge management systems, data warehousing and data mining
systems, knowledge management systems, collaborative technologies,
artificial neural networks, and expert systems and the principles of their
design.
3. Analyze typical decision situations to determine whether it is practical to
support them with computer technology and, if so, how.
4. Design and implement a decision support system.
5. Understand emerging technologies and issues in the context of business
intelligence as well as the management of information technology.
6. Understand decision support, expert, and group decision support system use,
development, and evolution.
7. Gain an appreciation of working on systems development projects in a team
environment and obtain experience with project management. |
Topical Outline: | · An overview of Business Intelligence and Management Support Systems
· Fundamentals of the Decision Making Process
· Decision Making & Information Technology (IT) Support
· An Overview of Decision Support Systems (DSS)
· Data Warehousing
· OLAP
· Data Mining
· Data Visualization
· Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
· Modeling and Analysis
. Revenue Management
· Group Support Systems (GSS) and other Collaborative Technologies
· DSS Development
· DSS Implementation
· Executive Information Systems
· Enterprise Information Portals
· Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)
· Supply Chain Management
· Knowledge Management Systems
· An Overview of Artificial Intelligence
· Expert System Fundamentals
· Knowledge Acquisition
· Knowledge Representation
· Inferencing and Validation
· Artificial Neural Networks
· Genetic Algorithms
· Intelligent Agents
· Fuzzy Logic |
Honor Code Reference: | none |