Business Intelligence is an area of great interest to students in light of the huge job growth in the industry and its wide applicability to numerous of fields. The unit introduces engineering for business intelligence (BI) including the fundamental terms, concepts and practice associated issues. It also explores the role and values of business intelligence in supporting organization goals. It presents a step-by-step guide for the entire BI project lifecycle. It covers engineering stages for business justification, infrastructure evaluation, BI project planning, business data analysis and modeling, application prototyping, data warehousing, extract/transform/load design and development, application implementation and evaluation. The unit also demonstrates how Dashboard, Business Scorecard and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) are used in the real world to support executives and business decision makers. The web services issues related to business intelligence are also explored.

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