UUY-CYB 4112 units400 LevelFirst Semester

Business Intelligence in Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (BISME)

B.Sc. Cybersecurity, University of Uyo

Data analytics and business intelligence tools in the context of small and medium enterprises: BI applications in Excel and R, reporting tools, data warehousing and dimensional modelling, ETL, and how BI connects to big data and cloud computing.

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Course outline

  1. 01Overview of BI concepts and applications using Excel and R
  2. 02SQL Server Reporting Services, Power BI, and Tableau
  3. 03BI architecture: data warehouse and BI architecture framework
  4. 04BI development approaches: Kimball's bus architecture vs Inmon's Corporate Information Factory
  5. 05Data governance and the TDWI BI maturity model
  6. 06Data models: entity-relationship (E/R) and dimensional modelling; OLAP
  7. 07Data integration: extract, transform, load (ETL)
  8. 08Big data and cloud computing in relation to BI and business analytics

Recommended textbooks

  • Business Intelligence: A Managerial Perspective on Analytics — Ramesh Sharda, Dursun Delen & Efraim Turban

    4th ed. — comprehensive and current

  • Data Warehousing in the Age of Big Data — Krish Krishnan

    Practical focus on modern data warehousing

How to pass UUY-CYB 411

  • Microsoft Power BI Desktop is free — build a real dashboard using any Nigerian public dataset
  • Star schema vs snowflake schema is exam-critical — understand the trade-offs with real examples
  • Connect BI security to CYB 224 (Data Security) — BI platforms are high-value data targets
  • Microsoft Learn (free) has a complete Power BI learning path with certifications

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