Discuss what challenges your selected organization might encounter in transitioning to the new environment; challenges such as organizational culture, skills, technologies including tools, as examples.

Business Intelligence/Business Analytics Environment

Discuss what benefits could the company realize from using a BI/BA environment.

Discuss what challenges your selected organization might encounter in transitioning to the new environment; challenges such as organizational culture, skills, technologies including tools, as examples.

Develop a system diagram displaying at a conceptual level, what the BI/BA environment would look like.

 Decide on the appropriate visualization tool/type to use based on the data you choose, and information you intend to portray. How will these charts be perceived by a non- technical user? What questions he/she may ask and answer with it?

Business analytics report

Use at least six different Objects from Tables, Graphs, Controls, Analytics, Containers and Content provided by SAS Visual Analytics.

Create a Business Intelligence (BI) report with at least three sections on operations (10%), marketing (10%) and finance (10%). This BI report should include key facts about company’s performance on a global and regional level. These facts should include both financial and marketing related data.

Decide on the appropriate visualization tool/type to use based on the data you choose, and information you intend to portray. How will these charts be perceived by a non- technical user? What questions he/she may ask and answer with it? (10%)

Make use of additional tools/functions such as global and local filters, text inputs, text content displays and images. (10%)

Your final BI report should be submitted as a PowerPoint presentation (5-7 slides max.).