PG 6680 Business Intelligence Systems

Assignment 2

This assignment is worth 100 marks constituting 30% of the total marks for this unit.

Due date:

Assignment 2

Part 1: A proposal representing the DSS choose by each group of students to investigate. (worth 5% due Friday week 9 at 11:00pm).

1. Introduction

In this assignment students will work in groups of 3 to 5 people on a research project to investigate and to analyse Business Intelligence architectures and usage in one or more government or commercial enterprises. Each group will provide a proposal

There are three deliverables to the assignment. The first is one a proposal (Maximum 2 pages)

The assessment of your assignment will be conducted on the basis of the material you deliver to your lecturer as well as your presentation. Unless special circumstance exists, all members of the group will receive the same mark.

Your Assignment 2 Proposal should include: 

1. Title of the DSS that you have chosen.
2. Name of the organization/company that used this DSS and you have chosen for your assignment 2.
3. A brief description of the decision support system itself (Maximum half page) - This would include a brief description of the decision support systems
4. A description of the organisation in which the decision support system is used (Maximum half page)
5. A description of the relationship of your decision support system to other systems within the organisation for business intelligence and intelligent decision-making (Maximum half page).

This deliverable would typically focus on the way in which DSS provided value for the organisation in which it was used for.

You should with consultation with your group members agree on the research project that you choose to investigate. Your project will be based on an investigation of business intelligence architectures, software and their use in government or commercial enterprises. You (with consultation with your group members) should choose one of the following decision support systems for your project:

Actuate, http://www.actuate.com/

Acxiom, http://www.acxiom.com

SAS, http://www.sas.com

Oracle, http://www.oracle.com

Cognos, http://www.cognos.com

Databeacon, http://databeacon.com/

DataMirror, http://www.datamirror.com

NAVTEQ, http://www.navteq.com/

Omniture, http://www.omniture.com/

ProClarity, http://www.proclarity.com

Other decision support systems (software) may be chosen with consultation with your tutor or lecturer. It should be noted that where possible no two groups in the same tutorial should chose the same topic. Please consult with your tutor/lecturer about this matter. For more information on available decision support systems see: http://www.dssresources.com/vendorlist/

(Power, D. J. Decision Support Systems Vendor List. DSSResources.COM, World Wide Web, http://DSSResources.COM/vendorlist/, 2004)