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Business Intelligence 2nd Edition Efraim Turban, Ramesh Sharda, ...more - Solutions
Describe how virtual world technologies can change the use of BI applications
Describe the integration of social software in BI applications
Know how Radio Frequency Dentification (RFID) data analysis can help improve supply chain management(SCM) and other operations
Describe how massive data acquisition techniques can enable reality mining
What was the original BI system used for?
Why was it beneficial to integrate it with social software?
Differentiate between internal and external integrations in this case and their contributions to EMS.
What are the benefits of the integration to suppliers?
What are the major types of BI implementation influencing factors?
List some factors related to tools and databases.
List some of the managerial issues.
What are some of the critical success factors in BI projects?
List several types of integration.
Describe the need for BI integration.
List the levels of integration.
Describe integration of BI with non-BI systems.
Define embedded intelligent systems and describe their benefits.
Describe the basic elements of a multitiered application architecture.
List the ways in which a Management Support System (MSS) application can be connected to back-end databases and other transaction-processing systems.
What are the benefits of BI/ ERP integration?
Define middleware and describe its attributes.
What is on-demand BI?
What are its major benefits?
What are the limitations of on-demand systems?
List some legal issues of BI.
Describe privacy concerns in BI.
List ethical issues in BI.
Relate BI to privacy.1. Define Web 2.0 .
Describe the global nature of social networks.
Describe mobile social networking.
Identify Facebook's major strategic issues (e.g., look a t the marketing efforts at insidefacebook.com and at facebook.com).
Much of Facebook's early success was clue to the close affiliation of its members' networks. How does Facebook expand into new markets without losing what originally made the site popular and alienating existing users?
What is a virtual world?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of providing decision support through virtual worlds?
What activities of a physical trade show can be experienced in a virtual event? Which ones cannot be replicated?
What type of data analysis might you perform on data about users in a specific virtual world setting (e.g., a company island in Second Life, a virtual trade-show booth)?1. What is the logic of combining BI and social networks?
Why is it referred to as collaborative decision making?
What can you learn from the Figure 6.5?
What are the major benefits of CDM?
What are the specific contributions to collaboration of social networks?
Explain how CDM works.
What kinds of data are read/recorded through RFID?
What can a company learn by reading RFID at a distribution center?
Some say that on-demand BI will be the dominating model of delivery of BI. Discuss.
Discuss the benefits and limitations of collaborative decision making in virtual teams.
Distinguish between physical and functional integrations in implementing a large BI project for marketing decision support.
Discuss the value of embedded intelligence in BI applications. Will intelligent BI be able to replace humans' Discuss.
Discuss why it is so important to connect databases and back-end systems to BI.
What are the potential benefits and challenges of using RFID in supply chain management?
Given that RFID data streams are large but only include basic tracking information, how would you derive useful information from these streams? You may want to read Delen et al. (2007).
What are the benefits and issues of using virtual worlds for decision support?
If you had an opportunity to participate in a virtual career fair, what factors would motivate and inhibit your participation?
What are the major characteristics of Web 2.0? What are some of the advantages of Web 2.0 applications?
Discuss the use of virtual communities to do business on the Internet.
How can wikis be used to facilitate knowledge management?
Define reality mining.
What types of data are used in reality mining?
Real-time decision support by BI application is cited as a major benefit. Surf the Internet to identify examples and benefits. Visit Teradata University Network, (TUN), and information-management.com.
Find some biogs dedicated to BI implementation and identify some of the current issues they discuss . .
Enter three BI vendors (e.g., Cognus IBM company, Business objects, a SAP company, Oracle) and find their activities in the on-demand BI. Write a report.
Enter Oracle.com. Find what it offers in middleware for BI and check the status of its fusion project.
Enter the RFID]ournalWeb site (rfidjournal.com). List at least two applications related to supply chain management and two applications in one of the following areas: health care, education, entertainment, and law enforcement.
Enter blog.itradefair.com. What are some of the interesting applications of virtual trade fairs?
Enter youtube.com. Search for videos on cloud computing. Watch at least two. Summarize your findings.
Enter sensenetworks.com. Review the Citysense application and media reports about it. Write a report on what you learned.
Enter the Web site of a social network service (e.g., myspace.com or facebook.com). Build a home page.Add a chat room and a message board to your site using the free tools provided. Describe the other capabilities available. Make at least five new friends.
Enter pandora.com. Find out how you can create and share music with friends. Why is this a Web 2.0 application?
Enter smartmobs.com. Go to blogroll. Find three biogs related to Web 2.0 and summarize their major features.
Enter mashable.com and review the latest news regarding social networks and network strategy. Write a report.
Access Hof's "My Virtual Life" (2008) at businessweek.com/ print/magazine/ content/06_18/b3982001.htm?chang=gl and meet the seven residents in the slide show. Prepare a table that shows the manner in which they make money, the required skills, and the reason they do it in Second Life.
Identify two virtual worlds (other than Second Life).
Enter secondlife.com and find any islands that relate to BI and decision support. Write a report on what they offer.
Enter yedda.com and explore its approach to knowledge sharing.
Investigate the status of on-demand BI by visiting vendors(e.g. Cognus, IBM, Oracle) and using search engines (bing, google, yahoo), and also visit forums (e.g., TSN, aspnews.com, utilitycomputing.ccom/forum). Identify major concerns and achievements, and prepare a report and class presentation.
Prepare a list of examples of situations in which social software can support BI application. Provide references and companies' names.
Item-level RFID tagging will be useful to retail stores as well as to customers. Stores already use RFID to track inventory more accurately. Customers could use RFID to locate items more easily, possibly even using a withinstore GPS to find an item. However, RFID does have some potential privacy
Search the Web for "virtual trade sho\\ls. " Form two teams arguing for and against the use of virtual worlds in business applications.
Location-tracking-based clustering provides the potential for personalized services but challenges for privacy.Divide the class in two pa rts to argue for and against applications such as Citysense.
Each group is assigned to a social network that features business activities (e.g., Linkedin, Xing, Facebook, Second Life). Each group will then register with hellotxt. com to find out what is going on in the site with regard to recent business activities. Write a report and make a class
With Hello TXT, log on to the site and enter your text message into the dashboard . Then select the sites you want to update with your new status message, and Hello TXT does the rest, reaching out to your various pages to add your new status message. It is a great centrali zed way to keep all your
As a group, sign in to secondlife.com and create an avatar. Each group membe r is assigned to explore a certain business area (e.g., virtual rea l estate, educational activities, diplomatic island). Make sure the ava ta r interacts with other people's ava tars. \Vrite a report.
Understand today's turbulent business environment and describe how organizations survive and even excel in such an environment (solving problems and exploiting opportunities)
Understand the need for computerized support of managerial decision making
Describe the business intelligence (BI)methodology and concepts and relate them to decision support system (DSS)
Understand the major issues in implementing Business Intelligence
How are information systems used at Norfolk Southern to support decision making?
What type of information is accessible through the visualization applications?
What type of information support is provided through accessNS?
How does Norfolk Southern use the data wa rehouse for human resource applications?
Can the same data warehouse be used for BI and optimization applications?
What are some of the major factors in today's business environment?
What are some of the major response activities that organizations take?
Identify.some typical applications of BI.
Give examples of ADS.
Give examples of event-driven alerts.
List the six major categories of decision support tools.
Identify some companies that are major vendors in BI.
Differentiate intelligence gathering from espionage.
Go to teradatastudentnetwork.com. Using the registration your instructor provides, log on and learn the content of the site. Prepare a list of all materials available there. You will receive assignments related to this site.Prepare a list of 20 items in the site that you think could be beneficial
Go to teradatastudentnetwork.com and find the paper titled "Data Warehousing Supports Corporate Strategy at First American Corporation" (by Watson, Wixom, and Goodhue). Read the paper and answer the following questions:a. What were the drivers for the DW / BI project in the companyb. What strategic
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