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Business Intelligence and Decision Sciences

This guide covers multiple aspects of business intelligence and decision sciences including big data, data modelling and analysis, management information systems and more.

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This guide covers multiple aspects of business intelligence and decision sciences including big data, data modelling and analysis, management information systems and more.

What is business intelligence?

Business intelligence (BI) refers to the procedural and technical infrastructure that collects, stores, and analyzes the data produced by a company’s activities, according to Investopedia.

What is decision sciences?

According to the Decision Sciences Institute “Decision Sciences is the study of managerial decision making, using state-of-the-art data driven and behavioral approaches to solve real world problems in both the private and public sectors.”

Some prefer to refer to it as decision analysis, defined by Investopedia as “a systematic, quantitative, and visual approach to making strategic business decisions.”

Introduction to business intelligence and management information systems

Here is a list of books you can use if you need to familiarize yourself with business intelligence, analytics and management information systems related terms. 

Please note some of these books might be reference books; reference books are only available for use in the library. You can identify those by looking at the Copies tab in the record of each book – the Location section should say Sherman Library Reference and the Status section should say LIB USE ONLY.

Here is a list of books you can use if you need to familiarize yourself with business intelligence, analytics and management information systems related terms. 

Please note some of these books might be reference books; reference books are only available for use in the library. You can identify those by looking at the Copies tab in the record of each book – the Location section should say Sherman Library Reference and the Status section should say LIB USE ONLY.

Here is a list of books you can use if you need to familiarize yourself with business intelligence, analytics and management information systems related terms. 

Please note some of these books might be reference books; reference books are only available for use in the library. You can identify those by looking at the Copies tab in the record of each book – the Location section should say Sherman Library Reference and the Status section should say LIB USE ONLY.

Required/recommended materials for selected business intelligence courses

Course    

Required or recommended materials

ISM 5150 Pearlson, Keri E.; Saunders, Carol S. Managing and Using Information Systems: A Strategic Approach. (2013)
QNT 5000 Lind, Douglas; Marchal, William; Wathen, Samuel. Statistical Technology in Business and Economics.
QNT 5160 Hillier, Frederick. Introduction to Management Science: A Modeling and Case Studies Approach with Spreadsheets. (2014)
QNT 5471 Laursen, Gert H.N. Business Analytics for Managers. (2017)
QNT 5471 O'neil, Cathy. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. (2016)
QNT 5476    Jukic, Nenad; Vrbsky, Susan;  Nestorov, Svetlozar; Sharma, Abhishek. Database Systems: Introduction to Databases and Data Warehouses. 

 

Course

Required or recommended materials

CSIS 3400 Dale, Nell. C++ Plus Data Structures. (2003)
ISM 3660

Kroenke. Experiencing MIS.

QNT 2880 Jaggia, Sanjiv. Business Analytics.
TECH 3100

Sharda, Ramesh; Delen, Dursun; Turban, Efraim.

Analytics, Data Science, & Artificial Intelligence: Systems for Decision Support.