IT440 Business Intelligence Fundamentals (3 cr.)

This course introduces data warehousing and decision support infrastructures that support organizational performance management. Information requirements for managerial decisions, dimensional modeling, data warehouse development, and data analysis techniques are covered.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Describe the common organizational challenges and best practices associated with business intelligence initiatives.
2. Explain how data retrieval and analysis technologies can be applied to support decision making.
3. Select analytic methods appropriate for the decision-making scenario.
4. Describe how and why the designs of data structures that support analytic environments differ from those supporting operational transaction processing.
5. Analyze the relationship of the analytic environment to the operational environment and how the data warehouse is maintained.
6. Apply basic data analysis techniques.
7. Explain and apply the fundamental ethical guidelines associated with data analysis.