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FWD: Syllabus: SMCS825A Business Intelligence & Applications C 3 Overview
FWD: Syllabus: SMCS825A Business Intelligence & Applications C 3 Overview
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SMCS825A BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE & APPLICATIONS
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Overview:
The course aims at examining Business Intelligence (BI) as a broad category of applications
and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, sharing and providing access to data to
help enterprise users make better managerial decisions. Students will learn the principles and
best practices for how to use data in order to support fact-based decision making. Emphasis
will be given to applications in marketing, where Business Intelligence helps in, e.g.,
analyzing campaign returns, promotional yields, or tracking social media marketing; in
sales, where Business Intelligence helps performing for sales analysis; and in application
domains such as Customer Relationship Management and e-Commerce. The student should
be made to be exposed with the basic rudiments of business intelligence system, understand
the modelling aspects behind Business Intelligence, understand of the business intelligence
life cycle and the techniques used in it & are exposed with different data analysis tools and
techniques. The potential benefits of business intelligence programs include- Accelerating
and improving decision making, optimizing internal business processes, increasing
operational efficiency, driving new revenues, gaining competitive advantages over business
rivals, identifying market trends ,spotting business problems that need to be addressed etc.