BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

UNIT 1. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
Definitions of Business Intelligence and Information Society
Business Intelligence Solution Architecture
Business Intelligence in the company departments
Master Plan, Strategic Plan and Annual Operational Plan
Operational Systems and ETL Processes in a BI system
Advantages and Risk Factors of Business Intelligence

UNIT 2. MAIN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTS
Balanced Scorecards (BSC)
Decision Support Systems (DSS)
Executive Information Systems (EIS)

UNIT 3. DATA MINING AND MACHINE LEARNING
Introduction to data mining and machine learning
KDD process
Data Mining Models and Techniques
Areas of application
Text Mining and Web Mining
Data mining and marketing

UNIT 4. DATAMART. DEPARTMENTAL DATABASE CONCEPT
Definition of DataMart
Data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) processes
Data Warehouse
Exploitation Tools
Tools for OLAP cube development

UNIT 5. DATAWAREHOUSE
What is a Data Warehouse?
Structure and Construction
Implementation phases
Features
Data Warehouse in the cloud

UNIT 6. INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION
What is data visualization?
Importance and tools of data visualization
Data visualization: Basic principles

UNIT 7. TABLEAU
What is Tableau? Uses and applications
Tableau Server: Architecture and Components
Tableau Installation
Workspace and navigation
Data Connections in Tableau
Types of filters in Tableau
Sorting data, groups, hierarchies and sets
Tables and charts in Tableau