ITS 531 – Business Intelligence Research Project

You are team of IT professionals working at a Business Intelligence firm. I am the chief administrator (CEO, President, Chancellor, Chairman of the board, Big-Boss, etc.) of an organization that has contracted you to provide us with a presentation on the benefits that a business intelligence solution could have for our organization. Our organization has provided you with access to one or more of our databases to aid in the identification of potential benefits. In addition to providing a presentation on the general benefits of business intelligence and proposing a business intelligence solution (software tool), you will also need to identify one key problem that your team has already identified as one that you propose that business intelligence can solve. You should also provide at least one example of the type of information that your business intelligence solution can provide.

You can choose or make up any organization that you like as the organization that I head and to which you will be presenting.

Choose at least one dataset as that which was provided to you by my organization. You may use or create any data you like, but here are some resources that may be helpful to you in locating a dataset. The dataset should actually be relevant to my organization (or vice-versa).

https://sqlbelle.com/2015/01/16/data-sets-for-bianalyticsvisualization-projects/

https://www.springboard.com/blog/free-public-data-sets-data-science-project/

https://r-dir.com/reference/datasets.html

You will also need to select an Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) software solution that your team proposes to use. Many OLAP tools are available in a trial version (though some may take you longer than we have to activate).

Your paper/presentation should include the following components:

· A general explanation of what business intelligence is

· The type(s) of data in your data set

· How the data is housed and any proposals for potentially consolidating it

· How the data was, or will need to be prepared

· The OLAP software solution your team is proposing to use including features it offers (dashboard, “What if” analysis, interactive reports, etc.)

· How your chosen OLAP software differs from its competitors and why you chose it

· A model used in your analysis of our data

You will need to back up your claims with source material, at least half of which should be scholarly.

You should prepare both a paper (use Microsoft Word for the paper) and a presentation (you may use PowerPoint, Slides, Presi, Flash, etc. for the presentation).

Your paper should be formatted using APA guidelines 7th Edition and should contain the following sections:

· Title Page

· Abstract

· Table of Contents (Use the auto-generation features in Microsoft Word for the TOC)

· Main Body

· Introduction

· Problem Statement

· Research Question

· Literature Review

· Methodology

· Findings

· Conclusion

· References

Your presentation file can be organized any way you like; however, you are still required to use APA guidelines with regard to in-text citations and a references page.