98671 - Business Analytics

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Management and Economics (cod. 5892)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students master the design, creation and interpretation of corporate Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Analytics (BA) reports. They will understand the different design choices and technologies and the different options on how to implement BI and BA reports. The course will also discuss Descriptive, Prescriptive and Predictive Analytics and show how to include in a BI report Analytics calculations using R. This course is integrated with Management Control System Lab as it completes the integrated course Analytics for Management (I.C.) with the competences needed to collect, clean and analyze the data coming from different parts of the organization in order to support an analytical approach to management.

Course contents

Databases architecture and Management

Extract, Transform and Load Principles and Techniques

Data Modeling Techniques

Data Visualization Techniques

Report Sharing Techniques

Hints on Business Analytics using Power BI and R

Teaching methods

Lectures and practical applications in laboratory.

Important note: up to 20 Erasmus students can be accepted, the criteria will be "first come, first served".

Assessment methods

Practical test at the PC on MS Power BI, plus a few theory open questions.

The course mark is numeric (from 0 to 30), numeric marks correspond to the following grades:

<18 insufficient
18-23 sufficient
24-27 good
28-30 very good
30 cum laude excellent

Teaching tools

Blackboard, slides, PCs.

Office hours

See the website of Francesco Bergamaschi