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College of Business Administration

Summer 2022

MIS 183: Business Intelligence Applications

Disclaimer: This syllabus and the schedule of readings, assignments, and activities may be changed by the instructor in order to maximize student learning needs and meet the objectives of the courses. 

 I. Instructor Information

Instructor:   Mr. Spiros Velianitis

Contact Information:  Office TAH 2077, 916-278-5940, spiros@csus.edu

This course is offered in a HerkyFlex instruction mode, in a combined section. Section MIS 183-71 (50500) is Web Online and section MIS 183-01 (50192) is a Face-2-Face section meeting in ARC-1013. The Web Online section will join us through Zoom while the F2F section will join us in the classroom.

II. Academic Learning Resources

Textbook: Ramesh Sharda, et al. Business Intelligence: A Managerial Perspective on Analytics, 4/E , 2018, Prentice Hall, ISBN-10: 0-13-463328-8

 Software:

  1. Tableau Cloud and/or Tableau Desktop
  2. SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)
  3. (optional) SAP Predictive Analytics 3.3
  4. (optional) SAP Lumira Designer 2.4

How to download the SAP software tools?

Connect to http://worker.cob.csuchico.edu/ to download and install the required software to your computer. I will provide you with a user name and password during the first week of classes.

III. Business Concepts

Keywords: Business strategy, Data warehouse, Data acquisition and cleansing, Data mining methods and technology, Data modeling, Statistical analysis, Financial analysis and assessment

IV. Instructional Design

Course Description: MIS 183. Business Intelligence Applications.  Advanced information technologies that extract non-trivial, actionable, and novel knowledge from data to achieve strategic goals of organizations.  Emphasis on multidimensional data modeling, online analytic processing, data warehouse, and data mining.  

Course Rationale/Course Overview: As the Northern California region recovers from the economic downturn businesses, not-for-profits and government agencies/departments will begin seeking business graduates who are capable of leading their business units as well-qualified managers. The MIS Program will focus on developing our best students to fill these opportunities through a challenging business curriculum that emphasizes cross-functional integration in enterprise planning, problem solving and decision making.  

Prerequisites: Business major and minor

Course Learning Objectives:

Primary Learning Objectives:

Detailed Learning Objectives:

Multidimensional Data Models

Data Warehouse

Data Mining

·         Understand the purposes of data mining.

·         Understand the data mining process including objective identification, model selection, hypothesis formulation, target data collection, data preprocess, model fitting, testing/verification, interpretation/evaluation, and application.

·         Learn about values of data mining from real-life data mining applications.

·         Learn about decision trees and neural networks as two major data mining algorithms.

·         Understand the importance of text mining.

SAP and Tableau

·         Use SAP and Tableau to illustrate all relevant concepts.

V. CBA Program-Level Learning GOALS

 Goal 1 Fundamental Business Knowledge

Competence based on fundamental business knowledge.

 1.1 Demonstrate understanding of fundamental business theories, concepts, and skills.

1.2 Ability to analyze business information in performing business related tasks.

 Goal 2 Integrative Business Competence

Business competence integrated with other business knowledge areas and ethical responsibility.

2.1 Ability to identify factors contributing to a managerial problem from a variety of business perspectives.

2.2 Enumerate the costs and benefits that potential solutions will have on the interdependent stakeholders of a firm.

Goal 3 Effective Business Communication

Business communication utilizing contemporary and classic communication techniques and methods.

 3.1 Convey information in a variety of business settings.

3.2 Evaluate the efficacy of business communications.

 Goal 4 Applied Business Capability

Ability to translate knowledge of business and management into practice.

 4.1 Create effective business solutions that are both ethically sound and socially responsible.

4.2 Generate innovative and effective solutions for problem solving and decision making.

VI. Program and Course Level Assessment of learning (what program goals does this course meet, what assignments are assessed, and what is the assessment scoring method?)

Program Learning Goals

Student Learning Outcomes

Assessment Strategy

 

 

Direct Assessment Measure

 

 

1

All primary learning objectives

Exams

Scoring guide 2 exams @ 100 point each)

2

Understand and apply the data warehouse development life cycle.

Understand and apply different phases of data mining process.

 

Apply data mining software to generate business intelligence

Assignments

Scoring guide for 4 Assignments @ 25 points each

VII. Grading Criteria, Guidelines, and Assignments

Course Grading: I will give two in-class term examinations. Each exam consists of fifty (50) multiple-choice questions taken on Canvas. Examination material will be drawn from the textbook reading, any other assigned readings, and class lectures and discussion. Emphasis will be placed on the conceptual understanding of the material and NOT on memory alone. Understanding the application of the concepts will greatly enhance your grade. 

No make-up examination will be given without the prior approval of the instructor. If you fail to take the exam, without valid documentation, I will prepare a different exam which you will take at 75% of its grade value.

Final grades will be assigned according to the total points you have obtained through exams and homework assignments relative to the total possible number of points. 

Assignment

Points

3 Term Exams

200

4 Assignments @ 25 points each

100

Total Points

300

Your grade is also affected by the number of unexcused absences. You are allowed to have 5 unexcused absences. For each absence after your allowance, 20 points will be deducted. Note that absences are only excused for a valid reason (health problems, jury duty etc.) and MUST be accompanied with documentation (i.e., health center note with a phone number to call for confirmation of the visit) provided within a week of returning to class.

Pluses and minuses will be awarded along the extremities (i.e., greater than 3% below the upper limit and less than 3% of the lower limit, respectively). 

Based on the total points, your grades will be assigned as follows:

Percent

Grade

90-100

A

80-89

B

70-79

C

60-69

D

0-59

F

Any queries or appeals for a graded component (such as an assignment or an exam) must be directed to the instructor in person within 2 weeks after the graded component is returned. No adjustment will be made for the scores of graded components after the two-week period. Students are responsible for keeping track of their graded components. Uncollected graded components will be kept in the instructor’s office until the end of the current semester.

Grading system may change for compelling reasons. 

VIII. Weekly Outline: the schedule of readings, assignments, and activities may be changed by the instructor in order to maximize student learning needs and meet the objectives of the course.

 Please look at the schedule.htm for our detailed weekly schedule.  

IX. Course Time commitment

A normal 3-unit course requires at least 135 hours of student engagement. Therefore, the normal expectation for this class is that student invest over 22 hours per week studying the subject!

X. Sacramento State Academic Honesty Policy and Regulations excerpt “Definitions of Academic Dishonesty” https://www.csus.edu/umanual/student/STU-0100.htm

Cheating. At Sacramento State, cheating is the act of obtaining or attempting to obtain credit for academic work through the use of any dishonest, deceptive, or fraudulent means. Cheating at Sacramento State includes but is not limited to:

·         Copying, in part or in whole, from another’s test or other evaluation instrument.

·         Using crib notes, "cheat sheets," or any other device, including electronic devices not permitted by the instructor as an aid in writing an examination.

·         Submitting work previously graded in another course unless doing so has been approved by the course instructor or by department policy.

·         Submitting work simultaneously presented in more than one course, unless doing so has been approved by the respective course instructors or by the department policies of the respective departments.

·         Altering or interfering with grading or grading instructions.

·         Sitting for an examination by a surrogate, or as a surrogate.

·         Any other act committed by a student in the course of his or her academic work that defrauds or misrepresents, including aiding or abetting in any of the actions defined above.

Plagiarism. Plagiarism, as a form of cheating, is the use of distinctive ideas or works belonging to another person without providing adequate acknowledgement of that person’s contribution. Regardless of the means of appropriation, incorporation of another’s work into one’s own requires adequate identification and acknowledgement. Plagiarism is doubly unethical because it deprives the author of rightful credit and gives credit to someone who has not earned it. Acknowledgement is not necessary when the material used is common knowledge. Plagiarism at Sacramento State includes but is not limited to:

·         The act of incorporating into one’s own work the ideas, words, sentences, paragraphs, or parts thereof, or the specific substance of another’s work without giving appropriate credit thereby representing the product as entirely one's own. Examples include not only word-for-word copying, but also the "mosaic" (i.e., interspersing a few of one’s own words while, in essence, copying another’s work), the paraphrase (i.e., rewriting another’s work while still using the other’s fundamental idea or theory); fabrication (i.e., inventing or counterfeiting sources), ghost-writing (i.e., submitting another’s work as one’s own) and failure to include quotation marks on material that is otherwise acknowledged; and

·         Representing as one’s own another’s artistic or scholarly works such as musical compositions, computer programs, photographs, paintings, drawing, sculptures, or similar works.

XI. Accommodations for Students with Disabilities

 Services to Students with Disabilities (SSWD) https://www.csus.edu/sswd/  offers a wide range of support services and accommodations for students in order to ensure students with disabilities have equal access and opportunity to pursue their educational goals. 

 Services and accommodations are provided to students with visual, hearing, mobility impairments, specific learning disabilities, psychiatric disorders, and/or other types of disabilities. Students must submit medical or professional documentation prior to meeting with a counselor for a needs assessment and accommodation plan.   

XII. Student Resources

CBA Tutoring: Not available during the summer.

XIII. Other Information

Late and Make-up Policy:  The general policy for this course is to require completion of assignments as specified in the class schedule.  All assignments are due at the beginning of the class period. If the assignment is submitted after the beginning of the class, there will be a 5% deduction. If the assignment is submitted on the same day, but after class, there will be a 10% penalty. If the assignment is submitted within a week, there will be a 20% penalty. No late assignments will be accepter after 1 week.  All assignments should be printed and stapled together with the cover letter statement (click for sample) on the top. If you have an emergency or other extenuating circumstance that will affect your ability to turn in an assignment or complete an exam, please contact me as soon as possible to discuss. 

Incomplete: An incomplete grade (I) will only be issued in accordance to College of Business Administration policy. Among the conditions imposed by the instructor that must be met are: (1) a current passing grade (70 percent or better), (2) the successful completion of all prior assignments and exams, and (3) an unforeseen and unusual event beyond your control which prevents you from completing the semester, and can be documented and verified (employment-related events do not qualify). (4) An incomplete will only be considered after it has been determined that a withdrawal (W) cannot be issued. If you do not meet (1) through (4), you do not qualify for an incomplete. As stipulated by the University, an incomplete cannot be assigned when it is necessary for the student to attend additional class meetings to complete the course requirements.

Unauthorized Withdrawal (WU) indicates that a student did not officially withdraw from the course but failed to complete it. Among the conditions imposed by the instructor that must be met are: (1) a passing grade (70 percent or better) at the time that the student stopped attending classes, (2) attendance stopped before the 11th week of the semester. If you do not meet (1) and (2), you do not qualify for an unauthorized withdrawal (WU) grade and as a result you will be assigned a failing (F) grade.

Laptop and cell phone regulation: No photographing, recording or text messaging is allowed without permission of the instructor.

A disruptive student is a student who engages in classroom behavior that interferes with the process of teaching and learning. If a student is disruptive to my class, I will follow the Procedures for dealing with incidents of disruptive behavior described in the DEALING WITH INCIDENTS OF DISRUPTIVE STUDENT BEHAVIOR IN THE CLASSROOM document https://www.csus.edu/umanual/student/STU-0112.htm.