CMAC 3370 - Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence

Credit Hours: 3

Information and the Data on which they are based, are vital corporate assets, stored in organizational databases, data warehouses, and data marts and provide competitive advantage for businesses. Organizations use data to make data-driven, informed decisions. In this course, students will learn the purpose and applications of data warehousing (DW) environment built from multiple data sources for analytical and information processing. DW stores information organized in a unified data model for the purposes of business decision making. An enterprise data warehouse offers an integrated corporate knowledge repository and provides tools for users to gain insights for decision making, based on facts and not intuition. Students will be introduced to how data warehousing offers business intelligence (BI) for analysts, managers and decision makers. BI topics include query, reporting and OLAP cubes

Prerequisite: CMIS 2720