Business Information and Analytics Paper

This assignment aligns with the following course objective: Identify how businesses use business information tools and analytics in planning and decision making.

$$ Read Chapter $4$"Data and Databases", in your textbook by Bourgeois et al$.$

$$ Find $2-3$ scholarly articles related to the topic of business analytics. The focus of these articles can be this use of analytics within a single organization to solve a specific issue or how analytics has changed specific industries, or anything in between.

$$ Using these articles and information from the textbook, write a $3$ to $4-$page paper demonstrating an understanding of the following:

o The definition and general characteristics of business analytics

o The various business information tools available and how they are used

o The types of decisions or problems that can be addressed through the use of analytics

o How the use of analytics has evolved recently