Reference no: EM132359405
There are new and exciting developments that are taking place in the Business Intelligence literature that is constantly shaping the use and implementation of Business Intelligence and Data warehousing tools and applications in organizations.
This objective of this assessment is to:
(i) provide a forum for students to investigate the practice, approaches and understanding of business intelligence as it is being applied in the real world to realize organizational objectives.
(ii) allow students to show innovation and creativity in applying SAP Business Object/Predictive Analytics/any other analytical tool and designing useful visualization for different datasets.
Students are expected to select a data set of choice and through research into the literature and analytics on selected dataset, provide answer to one (1) of the of the following research questions:
1. How can data analytics provide (business) value to users and/or organisations?
2. How do cultural and/or organisational issues impact the data analytics over the selected data set?
3. What is the impact of data analytics to the related industry sector (any new business models, new types of services, new regulations, etc. could be resulted in)?
Once a team has been formed, and a dataset selected, there are three deliverables to this assessment.
1. First, each student is expected to apply one analytical tool to develop innovative analytics and visualization of the selected dataset. This will be submitted as an individual report (1500 words) in week 8.
Note: Each member of the team must select a different analytical tool for the same data set.
2. Second, the team will be required to integrate the data analytics performed by each team member. This will be delivered as a 10 minute presentation in Week 10.
3. Finally, the team will submit a research report that draws on the dataset, to answer one of the research questions. The report should include a comparison and integration of the tools/solutions/visualisations included in the individual data analytic reports. (3000 Words)
Group report must include at least 10 references.
Please note that all references must adhere to APA style.
Marks would depend on the following factors:
1. Depth of research to illustrate the BI application chosen
2. Quality of reference provided
3. Quality of overall team presentation
4. Quality of report writing.
Make sure your follow formal report structure with cover page, introduction, use of headings, subheadings, conclusion sand reference section.
2 INDIVIDUAL REPORTS OF 1500 WORDS
1 GROUP REPORT OF 3000 WORDS
15 SLIDES