BA 8352 Business Intelligence - 3 semester hours
Business intelligence (BI) is an environment in which business users receive data that is reliable, consistent, understandable, easily manipulated and timely. With this data, business users are able to conduct analyses that yield overall understanding of where the business has been, where it is now and where it will be in the near future. BI monitors the financial and operational health of the organization, including reports, alerts, alarms, analysis tools, key performance indicators and dashboards. Data Mining is a primary (but not the only) tool to achieve these goals. Students will learn to use software that searches for significant patterns or correlations in the data and to interpret results.