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MIS 380 Business Intelligence and Analytics

Business Intelligence is the user-centered process of exploring data, data relationships and trends - thus helping to improve overall decision making for enterprises. This course addresses the iterative processes of accessing data (ideally stored in the enterprise data warehouse) and analyzing data in order to derive insights and communicate findings. Moreover, the course also addresses the use of software tools for analysis and visualization of data, especially report design along with the use of dashboards.

Prerequisites

Special information

Recommended: MIS 320 and MIS 335.
4 Undergraduate credits

Effective January 12, 2015 to present

Learning outcomes

General

  • Analyze data to generate information and knowledge that lead to informed decisions for businesses
  • Know how to research and select distinct software tools for different kinds of business intelligence tasks
  • Create structured and ad hoc business reports
  • Derive insightful trends and perform "what-if" analysis in real time.
  • Author dashboards that are used to summarize and visualize data in a way that fosters rapid business decision-making
  • Demonstrate how enterprise business intelligence can be derived from data warehouses & understand the structural components of data warehouses

Summer 2024

Section Title Instructor books eservices
50 Business Intelligence and Analytics Okuboyejo, Senanu Rita Books for MIS-380-50 Summer 2024 Course details for MIS-380-50 Summer 2024

Fall 2024

Section Title Instructor books eservices
50 Business Intelligence and Analytics Okuboyejo, Senanu Rita Books for MIS-380-50 Fall 2024 Course details for MIS-380-50 Fall 2024

Spring 2025

Section Title Instructor books eservices
50 Business Intelligence and Analytics Okuboyejo, Senanu Rita Books for MIS-380-50 Spring 2025 Course details for MIS-380-50 Spring 2025
51 Business Intelligence and Analytics Jin, Simon Books for MIS-380-51 Spring 2025 Course details for MIS-380-51 Spring 2025