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Business Computing: Jaime Álvarez Benayas

The document discusses the importance of business computing in preparing students to use IT technologies to help companies achieve their goals through business intelligence systems that can maintain, optimize, and streamline current operations. It also outlines typical challenges companies face with data, processes, and analytics that can be addressed through business intelligence to improve business decisions, processes, and costs. The course aims to provide students with the necessary skills and knowledge in business computing and data analysis using tools like Excel to solve business problems.

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Business Computing: Jaime Álvarez Benayas

The document discusses the importance of business computing in preparing students to use IT technologies to help companies achieve their goals through business intelligence systems that can maintain, optimize, and streamline current operations. It also outlines typical challenges companies face with data, processes, and analytics that can be addressed through business intelligence to improve business decisions, processes, and costs. The course aims to provide students with the necessary skills and knowledge in business computing and data analysis using tools like Excel to solve business problems.

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Business Computing

First term 2020


Jaime Álvarez Benayas
Why is Business Computing important?

Business Computing prepares the students to use IT technologies


to achieve company goals. Through Business Intelligence (BI)
systems current operations can be maintained, optimized and
streamlined.

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Why is Business Computing important?
The business environment is composed of myriad core elements
with complex relationships and multiple touch-points.

Customer
Needs

Rapid
Competito
Technolog
rs
y Shifts

Organization
Channels
(as
partners,
resellers Suppliers
and
competitor
s) Industry
Business
Models
Why is Business Computing important?
A BI consultant is becoming increasingly necessary since:
 Companies need to navigate a complicated data maze to drive
sales.
 Data critical for successful company operations is generated
across multiple sources and platforms that are often not well
integrated.
 Virtually all companies are subject to this environment,
independently of their field.
Typical BI challenges for companies - Data
Lack of current data knowledge landscape:
 Required data is not easily available.
 Data sources are not well integrated.
Data abundance leads to storage/mining issues:
 Lack of data leads to inability to derive business insights.
 Inconsistent data formats leads to quality issues.
Multiple data sources at different levels of product flow
Many data providers, each sending data with different and
changing fields, layouts, etc…
Typical BI challenges for companies -
Process
 Processes are not well defined, efficient, flexible, scalable or
measurable.
 Process business rules are inconsistent between stakeholder
groups.
 Manual data processing causes regular data cleaning.
 Lack of continuous enhancement.
 Lack of management best-practices.
 Lack of thresholds based on history and business rules.
Typical BI challenges for companies -
Analytics
 What to measure? How to track?
 What platform? Who to share with?
 Lack of consistent metrics across the organization
 Can the data add incremental business value relative to current
capabilities?
Challenges and effects to be solved by BI

Key Challenges: Effects:


 Abundant data not organized  Uninformed Business
or integrated effectively. Decisions
 Limited data management  Too Many Conflicting
rules, guidelines, and roles. Reports
 Inefficient and inconsistent  Inefficient Processes
data integration, analytics,  High Operating Costs
and reporting processes.
 Data and Reporting
 Inconsistent metrics, Key Quality Issues
Performance Indicators (KPIs),
and reporting templates.
Course objectives
 Acquire the necessary knowledge to understand new business
models based on innovation strategies and management
systems.
 Develop the capacity to analyse mass data from various sources.
 Be able to learn, be flexible and adapt to the professional
environment.
 Develop critical and self-critical capability.
 Acquire the necessary IT knowledge and will be able to use the
business computing tools. 
Methodology
 First part of the class theory and tools demonstration.
 Second part solving exercises and doubts.
 Third part demonstrating the solution to the proposed
exercises.
Evaluation
Continuous Assessment:
 At least 80% attendance to lectures.
 Pass the two control tests (at least 5/10 in both), and
presentation. Each ítem counts as 1/3 of the grade.

Or Final Exam (100% of the grade).


Prior knowledge
 Excel

 Power point
Syllabus
 Intro to Business Computing and Business Intelligence
 Basic data analysis using MS-Excel
 Sort, filter data, range of cells and references
 Clean, validate and format data
 Chart representation
 Functions
 Data tables
 Presentation of results
 Working with group data
Syllabus
 Pivot tables and dynamic charts
 Extending the use of calculation functions
 Analysis of hypothesis
 Other functions (Data import and export, Converting text to
columns, Remove duplicates and validate data)
 Working with linked sheets and templates
 Importing data from different sources
 Power Query
 Practical cases
 Effective Business Presentations
Syllabus
 Data model (Power pivot)
 Advanced graphs in Excel and Dashboarding
Doubts

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