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To introduce the student with a background in transactional application software development to a variety of aspects in the wider field of information technology. Emphasis is on the functional design of Business Intelligence systems from an Industrial Engineering perspective. The aim is to enable the student to appreciate the scope of management challenges in the integrated environment of business processes, transactional application software, data, IT infrastructure and telecommunications, data warehousing, and the necessary management information needed at various levels in an organisation.
It covers:
• Technology trends
• Context diagram of application software portfolio
• Review of typical transactional information systems
• Role of Business Intelligence and data warehousing
• Business dimensional lifecycle
• Business requirement definition
• Basic elements of the data warehouse
• Extraction, Transformation and Loading processes
• Dimensional modelling (star schema)
• Metadata
• Information delivery