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BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, LONERE
BTCOE704 (B): Business Intelligence
[Unit 1] Business Intelligence Introduction [6 Hours]
LONERE
Definition, Leveraging Data and Knowledge for BI, BI Components, BI Dimensions, Information Hierarchy,
Business Intelligence and Business Analytics, BI Life Cycle. Data for BI – Data Issues and Data Quality for
BI.
[Unit 2] BI Implementation [6 Hours]
Key Drivers, Key Performance Indicators and operational metrics, BI Architecture/Framework, Best
Practices, Business Decision Making. Business Analytics: Objective Curve, Web Analytics and Web
Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management.
[Unit 3] Business/Corporate Performance Management [6 Hours]
Dash Boards and Scorecards, Business Activity Monitoring, Six Sigma. Advanced BI: Big Data and BI,
Social Networks, Mobile BI, emerging trends. Working with BI Tools: Overview of managerial, strategic and
technical issues associated with Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse design, implementation, and
utilization. Critical issues in planning, physical design process, deployment and ongoing maintenance.
[Unit 4] Data Warehousing (DW) [6 Hours]
Data Warehousing (DW): Introduction & Overview; Data Marts, DW architecture – DW components,
Implementation options; Meta Data, Information delivery. ETL: Data Extraction, Data Transformation –
Conditioning, Scrubbing, Merging, etc., Data Loading, Data Staging, Data Quality.
[Unit 5] Dimensional Modeling [6 Hours]
Dimensional Modeling: Facts, dimensions, measures, examples; Schema Design – Star and Snowflake, Fact
constellation, slow changing Dimensions. OLAP: OLAP Vs OLTP, Multi-Dimensional Databases (MDD);
OLAP – ROLAP, MOLAP, HOLAP; Data Warehouse Project Management: Critical issues in planning,
physical design process, deployment and ongoing maintenance.
Text Book:
1. Efraim Turban, Ramesh Sharda, Jay Aronson, David King, Decision Support and Business
Intelligence Systems, 9th Edition, Pearson Education, 2009
Reference Books:
1. David Loshin, Business Intelligence – The Savy Manager's Guide Getting Onboard with
Emerging IT, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2009.
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