ITECH7406 - Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing

There are new and exciting developments that are taking place in the Business Intelligence literature that is constantly shaping the use and implementation of Business Intelligence and Data warehousing tools and applications in organizations. This objective of this assessment is to:

(i) provide a forum for students to investigate the practice, approaches and understanding of business intelligence as it is being applied in the real world to realize organizational objectives.

(ii) allow students to show innovation and creativity in applying SAP Business Object/Predictive Analytics/any other analytical tool and designing useful visualization for different datasets.

Students are expected to select a data set of choice and through research into the literature and analytics on selected dataset, provide answer to one (1) of the of the following research questions:

1. How can data analytics provide (business) value to users and/or organisations?

2. How do cultural and/or organisational issues impact the data analytics over the selected data set?

3. What is the impact of data analytics to the related industry sector (any new business models, new types of services, new regulations, etc. could be resulted in)?