inf604 - Business Intelligence I (Complete module description)

inf604 - Business Intelligence I (Complete module description)

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Module label Business Intelligence I
Modulkürzel inf604
Credit points 6.0 KP
Workload 180 h
Institute directory Department of Computing Science
Verwendbarkeit des Moduls
  • Master Applied Economics and Data Science (Master) >
  • Master of Education Programme (Vocational and Business Education) Computing Science (Master of Education) >
  • Master's Programme Business Informatics (Master) >
  • Master's Programme Business Informatics (Master) >
  • Master's Programme Computing Science (Master) >
  • Master's Programme Engineering of Socio-Technical Systems (Master) >
  • Master's Programme Engineering of Socio-Technical Systems (Master) >
  • Master's Programme Engineering of Socio-Technical Systems (Master) >
Zuständige Personen
  • Marx Gómez, Jorge (Prüfungsberechtigt)
  • Lehrenden, Die im Modul (Prüfungsberechtigt)
Prerequisites
No participant requirement
Skills to be acquired in this module
Objective of the module/skills:
Current module provides basics of business intelligence with focus on enterprises and strong emphasis on data warehousing technologies. Students of the course are provided with knowledge, which reflects current research and development in a data analytic domain.
Professional competence
The students:
  • name and recognize the role of business intelligence as past of daily business process
  • being able to analyse advantages and disadvantages of different approaches and methods of the data analytics and being able to apply them in simple case studies
  • obtain theoretical knowledge about data collection and modelling processes, including most applicable approaches and best practices
Methodological competence
The students:
  • being able to execute typical tasks of business intelligence, and also being able to deepen knowledge on different approaches and methods
  • gain a hans on experience and being able to understand advantages and disadvantages of different methods and being able to use obtained knowledge in most efficient ways
Social competence
The students:
  • build solutions based on case studies given to the group, for example solving the issue of a factless fact table
  • discuss solutions on a technical level
  • present obtained case studies solutions as part of the exercises

Self-competence
The students:
  • critically review provided data and information
Module contents
Data warehouse technology together with business intelligence are increasingly being used by business in order to get better decision support and enrich ongoing rocesses with data-rich decisions. Data warehouse technology enables an integration of data from heterogeneous sources, whether business intelligence builds data rocessing on top of it. For instance, business intelligence allows to build reporting on very large volumes of data (including historical) coming primary from data warehouse.
As past of the current module following contents are taught:
  • Definition and scope of business intelligence.
  • Procedures and objectives of data warehousing.
  • Process of extracting, transforming and loading (ETL) of data.
  • Phases of data modelling, data capturing and reporting in conjunction with a plausible case studies/scenarios.
  • Prospects for further and evolving topics for business intelligence (e.g. Adaptive Business Intelligence, In-MemoryComputing. etc.)
  • Introduction to Data Mining.
  • Case studies based practical exercises and assessments in order to impart practical knowledge.
Literaturempfehlungen
  • Marx Gómez, Rautenstrauch, Cissek (2008): Einführung in die Business Intelligence mit SAP NetWeaver 7.0.
  • Marx Gómez, Rautenstrauch, Cissek, Grahlher (2006): Einführung in SAP Business Information Warehouse, Springer, Heidelberg.
  • Moss, Atre (2006): Business Intelligence Roadmap, Addison-Wesley, Boston.
  • Loshin (2003): Business Intelligence, Kaufmann, Amsterdam.
  • Müller, Lenz (2013): Business Intelligence.
  • Sabherwal, Becerra-Fernandez (2010): Business Intelligence: Practices, Technologies, and Management
Links
http://www.wi-ol.de
Languages of instruction German, English
Duration (semesters) 1 Semester
Module frequency annual
Module capacity unlimited
Teaching/Learning method 1VL + 1Ü
Previous knowledge none
Form of instruction Comment SWS Frequency Workload of compulsory attendance
Lecture 2 WiSe 28
Exercises 2 WiSe 28
Präsenzzeit Modul insgesamt 56 h
Examination Prüfungszeiten Type of examination
Final exam of module
At the end of the lecture period
Written exam max. 120 minutes