MIS 480 : Business Intelligence

Prerequisites: Senior Standing or permission of dept. chair

This course aims at giving the student an understanding of the area of business intelligence, from both a technical and a person/organization perspective and ways of finding business advantages. The student will have both a theoretical knowledge of relevant concepts of the area, as well as a more practically oriented view of possible tools and experiences of their use. The focus in this course is on the need for information that different kinds of enterprises may have, especially information from outside the enterprise. The course will go into main areas of BI data warehousing, business analytics, performance, and strategy.