TEAM REPORT:

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. The primary objective of this research project is to 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. Some of the potential topics are:

• Development and acquisition approaches for emerging decision support environments
• Challenges in harness big data and relevant analytics for effective, timely inputs to strategic decision making
• Cultural, social and political dimensions of the adoption of emerging decision support technologies
• Data and business analytics in the cloud
• Emerging technology for real-time analytics
• Knowledge-driven analytics: application of emerging technologies such as text mining, data mining, rule-based systems, semantic web technologies, or in-memory databases to address specific decision support needs
• Mobile technologies for decisions analytics and support

There are two deliverables to this project.

1. First is the Proposal. Your team will propose the BI application you have chosen in a no more than 5-minute presentation in class for feedback and approval by lecturer.

2. Final deliverable consists of presentation. Presentation of your findings in this project would be of about 20-minute duration.

Report Submission: Hard-copy to tutors/lecturers assignment box. Double-sided printing for the hard-copy is encouraged in order to save paper. Declaration should be done to declare how much (percentage) each of the team has contributed to the report.

You will also submit a 9-10 pages report (about 3000 words not counting cover page and references) of this project. Team must also comment on the social, ethical, global, and legal considerations of this research topic, both from the organizational as well as consumer perspective.

At least 15 references in your report must be from peer-reviewed sources. Include any and all sources of information including any person(s) you interviewed for this project.

Please note that all references must adhere to APA style. See

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01 and http://www.apastyle.org/ for details on how to format a report and how to cite references.

Marks would depend on 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.