Course Type: College Credit CoursesCourse Length: Full TermCourse Number: UNIV 4708Credit Hours: 3Subject: University StudiesCourse Description: View DescriptionThis course is an introductory course on the topic of Business Intelligence (BI). The student will acquire knowledge and skills to:Understand the value of BI for an organizationDesign and develop information systems that will capture relevant data from all segments of an enterpriseOrganize data into a coherent structureProvide the means to analyze data in order to make rational decisions.Specific topics include data warehousing, data mining, text and web mining and reality mining. Students will study real life cases and be exposed to business analytics, business performance management and their user interface. Prerequisites: MATH 1530 and INFS 1010. As this is an introductory course in Business Intelligence, no previous experience either applied or theoretical is required. Students with prior professional experience in business intelligence will find this course very useful in expanding their knowledge and skills in the topic.