30376 - Business Intelligence

Academic Year 2024/2025

Course contents

Important: it is higly recommended to attend the course "Principi di Business Intelligence" (https://www.unibo.it/it/didattica/insegnamenti/insegnamento/2022/463901, taught in Italian) or to study in anyway the related contents before attending this course, as this will facilitate the learning process.

Business Intelligence Principles.

Business Intelligence in Power BI Desktop.

DAX functions, dashboarding, reporting.

Hints on Report Sharing in Cloud.

Readings/Bibliography

Turban, Volonino, Wood / Information Technology for Management - International students version, Wiley, 2015 (10th edition).

Russo, Ferrari / The definitive guide to DAX, Microsoft Press, 2019 (2nd edition).

Rad / Pro Power BI Architecture, Apress, 2018.

Teaching methods

Lectures and practical applications in laboratory.

Important note: up to 20 Erasmus students can be accepted, the criteria will be "first come, first served".

Assessment methods

Practical test at the PC on MS Excel Power Pivot / MS Power BI, plus a few theory open questions.

The course mark is numeric (from 0 to 30), numeric marks correspond to the following grades:

<18 insufficient
18-23 sufficient
24-27 good
28-30 very good
30 cum laude excellent

Teaching tools

Blackboard, slides, PCs.

Office hours

See the website of Francesco Bergamaschi