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Business Intelligence

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Course Unit Code460-4138/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory type B
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
MOY001Ing. René Moyzes
Summary
The course is a follow-up to the Database and Information Systems 2 course with focus on applying the knowledge to the domain of Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse. The content of lectures is based on getting familiar with principles of Data Warehousing, data modelling specifics, design of respective layers of a data warehouse, data integration using SQL scripts and ETL tools, data transformations within respective layers of a data warehouse including final aggregations of data in order to be presented as business information in a graphical form and layout, or in a form of data extracts for further processing, where the second part of the course carries on in the next term. Another part of the course is the methodology for the solution design of a DWH and data integration projects. During practical sessions students will make use of the methodology in a practical example of data warehouse design and development in an SQL database environment within scope of their final work.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
A student is able to orient in the domain of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing (DWH), in particular practical knowledge of DWH data modeling methodology, ETL processes and data integration to data warehouses. Moreover, the student knows the methodology and he/she is able to create a reporting layer - data marts for analytics and reporting over data. The student is capable to describe the core basis of necessary data processing and operations with data in DWH database.
Course Contents
Lectures:
1. Introduction to BI, fundamental of BI, basic architectures and components.
2. Data warehouses. according to Inmona and Kimballa, design patterns.
3. ETL Framework, functional requirements for ETL, architectures.
4. Data govermance, master data management.
5. Data Vault, design, usage.
6. Architecture of modern data warehouse.
7. Components of Microsoft Azure and Amazon WS for data warehouses.
8. Distribution and vizualization of data in data warehouses.
9. Analytic oved data warehouses, design patterns.
10. BI modeling.
11. OLAP and MDX.
12. Introduction to DAX.
13. BI use cases, practical projects, pros and cons.
14. Management of BI projects.

Practices:
1. SSIS, introduction.
2. SSIS, data loading, basic operations in data flow.
3. SSIS, Delta management.
4. SSIS, Surrogate keys, key mapping, incremental load.
5. SSIS, ETL Framework.
6. SSIS, optimization, performance management.
7. Microsoft Azure - an infrastructure for a data-warehouse.
8. Microsoft Azure - tools for ETL.
9. Microsoft Azure - streaming data.
10. Reporting Services - introduction, implementation.
11. Power BI - model.
12. Power BI - data visualization.
13. Power BI - project management.
14. Microsoft Azure - AI, machine learning.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
L. T. Moss, Shaku Atre: Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support Applications. 576p, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003.
1. D. Slánský, J. Pour, O. Novotný: Business Intelligence: Jak využít bohatství ve vašich datech. Grada, 256s, 2004.
2. L. T. Moss, Shaku Atre: Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support Applications. 576p, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003.
Recommended Reading:
1. R. Kimball, M. Ross: The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling. 600p, Wiley, 2013.
2. R. Kimball, J. Caserta: The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Extracting, Cleaning, Conforming, and Delivering Data. 528p, Wiley, 2004.
3. C. Batini, M. Scannapieco: Data Quality: Concepts, Methodologies and Techniques (Data-Centric Systems and Applications). Springer, 2010.
1. R. Kimball, M. Ross: The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling. 600p, Wiley, 2013.
2. R. Kimball, J. Caserta: The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Extracting, Cleaning, Conforming, and Delivering Data. 528p, Wiley, 2004.
3. C. Batini, M. Scannapieco: Data Quality: Concepts, Methodologies and Techniques (Data-Centric Systems and Applications). Springer, 2010.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials, Project work, Teaching by an expert (lecture or tutorial)
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Graded creditGraded credit100 51