DECISION SUPPORT AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS

Course Code: MBA 373 Course Objective:

Business intelligence systems can help companies have a more comprehensive knowledge of the factors affecting their business. The BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE focuses on learning how analytics and technology can be used to enhance, decision-making, and performanceThis course is designed to train students in skills, methodologies, and knowledge how to accomplish data management tasks with the applications of BI tools and techniques

Credit Units: 03

Course Contents:
Module I Decision Support Systems and Business Intelligence, Computerized Decision making, Concepts and principles of data ware housing, ETL (extraction transformation and loading) Process, OLAP Module II Business Intelligence, Special Introductory Section: The Essentials of Business Intelligence, Business Analytics and Data Visualization, Data mining and techniques; Text, and Web Mining, Neural Networks for Data Mining Module III Business Performance Management, Collaborative Computing-Supported Technologies and Group Support Systems, Knowledge Management, Intelligent Systems- Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems. Module IV Advanced Intelligent Systems, Intelligent Systems over the Internet, Implementing Decision Support Systems- Systems Development and Acquisition, Integration, Impacts, and the Future of Management Support Systems. Module V Data Mining and BI, Next generation BI, BI strategy, BI and Performance Management, Implementation of BI Project-Reason for the failure and Success.

Examination Scheme:
Components Weightage (%) C 10 A 5 CT 15 EE 70

Text & References:

Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems (8th Edition) by Efraim Turban, Jay EAronson, Ting-Peng Liang, and Ramesh Sharda, PHI, 2006.