IT370: Business Intelligence Applications

Credits: 3

Catalog Description

This course introduces concepts in business intelligence and explores how business intelligence (BI) can help improve management effectiveness through better decision-making in several functional areas such as marketing, finance, and manufacturing. This course will explore applications of BI, such as online analytical processing (OLAP), dashboards, management reporting, performance measurement, and data visualization, and how these are developed and applied. It will also investigate BI in the context of decision-making and closely related areas such as data warehousing, data marts, business analytics, web analytics, real-time data, and mobile applications. Students will gain hands-on experience through assignments and projects using a comprehensive set of current BI tools.

Current & Upcoming Offerings

2025-2026

Fall 2025 2 sections
Section Schedule / Time Instructor Location
01
TBA
College of Management
ON-LINE
02
Tu 05:30PM - 08:15PM
College of Management
Y02-2110
Spring 2026 2 sections
Section Schedule / Time Instructor Location
01
TBA
College of Management
ON-LINE
02
Tu 05:30PM - 08:15PM
College of Management
M02-0423

Prerequisites

  • IT110 OR MSIS110 AND IT230L OR MSIS411

Upper-level course in business intelligence covering dashboards, analytics, data visualization, and decision support applications.