Course+Introduction+and+Business+Intelligence+Overview

=Course Overview= Tuesday, March 18

**Topic overview:**
Today's lecture will introduce the topic of Business Intelligence and provide a roadmap of the topics that we will cover in greater detail over the course of the mini. There is no preparation required prior to the course. The readings listed below provide a good introduction to the topic of Business Intelligence. You should read them before we begin the section on Data Warehousing next week.
 * [Los03] Loshin, David, Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager’s Guide, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2003, ISBN: 1-55860-916-4 (course textbook), chapters 1, 2, and 4
 * Supplemental: Chapter 3

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