Essay Questions:
1. Explain Business Intelligence in one page or less. Focus upon the concept that ‘BI' is an umbrella term and explain what the components of a ‘BI' system are and what its architecture and purpose are.
2. Discuss data mining in one page or less. Discuss its purpose, how the data needs to be organized, the various management science methods and purposes that can be used in data mining.
3. Discuss the purpose and other considerations behind dashboards in less than one page. Highlight the differences between scorecards and dashboards; and BAM and BPM.