BSAN 6060 Data Management for Business Intelligence

3 semester hours

Current management practices place an increasing dependence on the use of information to manage a business–business intelligence systems and analytics tools play a critical role in this regard. To help managerial decision makers do their job effectively, it is necessary to understand the decision making process, the nature of data/information used in the decision making process and the role of information technology (in particular, business intelligence technologies) in that process. Data plays a significant role in creating a robust and reliable business intelligence system. This course focuses on various data wrangling tools and techniques that teach how to collect, store and clean data. We will focus on using various business analytics tools for extracting, transforming and loading data into an “analytics ready” data format. Students will also learn about different data storage architectures, such as relational and non-relational databases and data warehouses, as well as Big Data architecture and management of Big Data.

Prerequisite: BSAN 6030 (with a minimum grade of B-).