Course Description

Systems targeting to achieve business advantages by enhancing enterprise transparency and improving decision-support effectiveness have been designed and developed over the last 40 years. Today, they are subsumed under the heading business intelligence (BI). This lecture aims to provide a holistic understanding of the area of business intelligence, including a management, organizational and technical perspective. Students will get in this lecture the theoretical knowledge of major concepts of the area, as well as a more practically oriented view of tools and their actual use.
From a practically oriented perspective, students will expand the theoretical foundations by carrying out a capstone project and create a BI solution for a particular business scenario by themselves. The capstone project in the BI lecture is in cooperation with KPMG and students will work with a real dataset from KPMG customers. Moreover, students will learn how to work with SAP HANA and PowerBI tools to create a BI solution by doing the capstone project.

Course Content

Time

Lecture: Mondays 14:00 – 15:30 / Geb. 11.10, Room 223 / Starting 16.10.17
Assignment (5 sessions): Tuesday 14:00 –15:30 / Geb. 11.10, Room 213 / Starting 24.10.17
Capstone Presentation: TBD / Kd2Lab / 09.02.2018

Course Grading

Exam (individual effort) : 60 %

Capstone Project (team effort, with individual accountability): 40 %