ICT208: Business Intelligence Tools and Techniques

Increasingly, organisations are relying upon the ability to make strategic use of the vast amounts of data generated from their operations. This unit explores the tools and methods used to support organisational decision making through business intelligence (BI) tools and techniques. Students are exposed to practical aspects of BI through a series of cases using commercially available BI tools. Topics include decision making and support, modelling and analysis, data mining, business performance management, and intelligent systems.

Points	4
Enrolment Options	Murdoch: S1-internal, S1-external
Contact Time	Lectures: 2 hours per week, tutorial/practice sessions 1 hour per week.
Prerequisites	Nil. Some basic familiarity with spreadsheets and the Internet is assumed. Co-requisite: Internet access if studying externally.
Exclusions	Students who have successfully completed ICT208 Commercial Computing may not enrol in this unit for credit.
School	School of Information Technology
Unit Coordinator	Mr Danny Toohey Position: Lecturer Level B - IT E-mail: D.Toohey@murdoch.edu.au Location: Murdoch Campus Economics, Commerce and Law Room 3.053 Phone: Prefix: +618 9360 2800
Unit Contacts	Contact Phone Prefix: +618 Location Explanation of Location Codes Teaching Period(s) Mr Danny Toohey Lecturer Level B - IT (D.Toohey@murdoch.edu.au) 9360 2800 Murdoch Campus Economics, Commerce and Law Room 3.053 MURDOCH S1: Internal (15/02/2010 - 11/06/2010)   MURDOCH S1: External (15/02/2010 - 11/06/2010)

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Key to Offshore Campus Location abbreviations: APMISIN Asia Pacific Management Institute (Singapore) CEJTOKYO Chiropractic Education Japan (Tokyo) JKURASHIKI NET Corporation (Kurashiki, Japan) KDUPG KDU College (Penang, Malaysia) KDUPJ KDU College (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) SGP-REPOLY Republic Polytechnic (Singapore) SMANUFED Singapore Manufacturing Federation ZHENGZHOU Zhengzhou University (China)