INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY

GAIRIGAUN, TINKUNE, KATHMANDU

NEPAL

BTEC HND in Computing

Unit 14: Business Intelligence Unit Code: M/615/1641

Session/Year: Jun 2018 Assessment No: 01

Assignment Launch Date: 16 Dec 2019 Due Date: 16 Feb 2020

Assignment Title:

Teacher Name: Nabin Gajurel Iv’s Name :

Student Name: Pearson RegNo: Final Grade:

Assignment submission format

Each student has to submit their assignment as guided in the assignment brief. The students are guided
what sort of information is to produce to meet the criteria targeted. Prepare the assignment as guided
below.

Scenario I

Suppose you own a Company, company can be of any types i.e. Manufacturing Company, IT Company,
and Airlines Company etc. You are founder as well as Business analyst of your company. Now, your
small company is experiencing tremendous growth and there are lots of data. Data can be structured,
semi structured and unstructured. Now, being business analyst you have to manage data using different
business intelligence tools so that you can take decision effectively. Furthermore, there may be a lots of
projects or tasks in your company. You may want to track records of every employee and progress of
projects and tasks. So, for this you need to develop Business Intelligence tools or application or
programs which can solve specific problem of your project.
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But, before designing any tools / application / program, you may want to conduct small scale research to
identify other organizations that have used business intelligence to improve their operation. And, one of
the most important things is to determine whether your designed tools are user friendly or not. So, you
may need to customize that tool too.

In order to meet the requirement, you are asked to do the tasks below.

Learning outcomes covered

 LO1 Discuss business processes and the mechanisms used to support business decision-making
 LO2 Compare the tools and technologies associated with business intelligence functionality
 LO3: Demonstrate the use of business intelligence tools and technologies
 LO4: Discuss the impact of business intelligence tools and technologies for effective decision-
making purposes and the legal/regulatory context in which they are used

Part 1

Produce a presentation which

 Examines business process and supporting processes using specific examples

 Shows the differentiate between unstructured and semi-structured data
 Evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of using application software for business process

Note: you need to produce a written document which summaries your presentation.

Part 2

Write an article which

 Compares the different types of support available for decision making for decision making at
varying levels within an organization.
 Justifies the key features of business intelligence functionality with reference to specific
examples.
 Compares and contrasts different information systems and technologies that can be used to
support to support organizations at operational, tactical and strategic levels.

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Part 3

Prepare a report which includes the followings.

Section1

 In order to determine (establish) the concept what business intelligence is, illustrate the concept
with reference to specific examples. And, list out tools and techniques associated with it.
 Design a business intelligence tools/apps/program that can perform specific task to support
problem solving or decision making for your organization. Ensure how the design is user
friendly and has a functional ability.
 Write a few concluding paragraphs to provide a critical review of the design.

Section 2
 Discuss how business intelligence tools can contribute to effective decision-making.
 Explore the legal issues involved in the secure exploitation of business intelligence tools.
 Conduct small survey to identify specific examples of organizations that have used business
intelligence tools to enhance or improve their operations.
 Evaluate how organizations could use business intelligence to extend their target audience.

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Pass Merit Distinction
LO1: Discuss business processes and the mechanisms used to support business decision-making

P1 Examine, using examples, the M1 Differentiate between LO1 D1 Evaluate the benefits
terms ‘Business Process’ and unstructured and semi- structured and drawbacks of using
‘Supporting Processes’. data within an organisation. application software as a
mechanism for business
processing.
LO2: Compare the tools and technologies associated with business intelligence functionality

P2 Compare the types of support M2 Justify, with specific LO2 D2 Compare and contrast a
available for business decision- examples, the key features of range of information systems and
making at varying levels within business intelligence technologies that can be used to
an organization. functionality. support organizations at
operational, tactical and strategic
levels.
LO3: Demonstrate the use of business intelligence tools and technologies

P3 Determine, with examples, M3 Customise the design to D3 Provide a critical review of

what business intelligence is and ensure that it is user-friendly and the design in terms of how it
the tools and techniques has a functional interface. meets a specific user or business
associated with it. requirement and identify what
P4 Design a business customization has been
intelligence tool, application or integrated into the design.
interface that can perform a
specific task to support problem-
solving or decision-making at an
advanced level.
LO4: Discuss the impact of business intelligence tools and technologies for effective decision-making
purposes and the legal / regulatory context in which they are used
P5 Discuss how business M4 Conduct research to identify D4 Evaluate how organisations
intelligence tools can contribute specific examples of could use business intelligence to
to effective decision-making. organisations that have used extend their target audience and
P6 Explore the legal issues business intelligence tools to make them more competitive
involved in the secure enhance or improve operations. within the market, taking security
exploitation of business legislation into consideration.
intelligence tools.

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Mention all the grades awarded in this assignments:

Note: Please access HN Global for additional resources support and reading for this unit. For further
guidance and support on report writing please refer to the Study Skills Unit on HN Global. Link to
www.highernationals.com

Other Recommendations:

 It should be the student’s own work – plagiarism is unacceptable.

 Clarity of expression and structure are important features.
 Your work should be submitted as a well presented, word-processed document with headers and
footers, and headings and subheadings, both in hard and soft copies.
 You are expected to undertake research on this subject using books from the Library, and
resources available on the Internet.
 Any sources of information should be listed as references at the end of your document and these
sources should be referenced within the text of your document using Harvard referencing style
 Your report should be illustrated with screen-prints, images, tables, charts and/or graphics.
 All assignments must be typed in Times New Roman, size 12, 1½ spacing.

I declare that all the work submitted for this assignment is my own work or, in the case of group work,
the work of myself and the other members of the group in which I worked, and that no part of it has been
copied from any source. I understand that if any part of the work submitted for this assignment is found
to be plagiarized, none of the work submitted will be allowed to count towards the assessment of the
assignment.

Assignment Prepared By: Signature: Date: 10 Dec 2019

Nabin Gajurel

Brief Checked By: Signature: Date: 12 Dec 2019

Dhruba Babu Joshi

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