Business Intelligence Concentration

Business Intelligence Concentration

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The Suffolk MBA Online is for proactive professionals who want to become more effective leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs. From our core curriculum to the concentrations that deepen your understanding of a specific area of business, the program focuses on cultivating advanced business competencies through experiential learning.

Data is a major commodity in our global economy. There is an increasingly high demand for professionals who can find, analyze, and utilize big data effectively.

During the Business Intelligence concentration you will:

  • Learn to manage various data resources, analyze data, and visualize the results to improve performance management, optimize customer relations, monitor business activity, and support decision making.
  • Utilize communication and presentation skills to present results in a meaningful and intuitive way.
  • Design databases, retrieve data from business processes, and address security concerns of data management.
  • Gain proficiency in MS Excel, MS Access, SQL, ERP system, Data Warehouse, and security/privacy protection.
  • Analyze data and visualize results while using SPSS, Tableau, SAP Lumira, and MS Excel.

Potential Careers in Business Intelligence

The global job market has a high demand for professionals with a solid understanding of data management and analysis, as well as up-to-date knowledge on practical tools to solve business problems in various functional areas, e.g. marketing, finance, accounting, and healthcare. Potential careers in this sector include:

  • Data Analyst or Business Analyst in Various Sectors (e.g. healthcare, investment, government and retailing)—Graduates have worked in healthcare, investment, government, and retailing.
  • Business Consultant, Business Application Developer, Project Manager — Graduates have worked as sales commission analysts (Nuance Communications), business and engineering managers (Dell, EMC), business solution analysts (Boston Bruins), and application analysts (Partners Healthcare).

Online MBA in Business Intelligence Curriculum

To the right are a few sample courses from the Business Intelligence concentration. Please download a brochure for a complete curriculum listing:

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Enterprise Data Management

Provides students with an understanding of the nature of enterprise integration and enterprise software, business process re-engineering, the implementation within organizations, and strategies for maximizing benefits from enterprise systems.

Data Management and Modeling

Introduces the importance of information as an organizational resource, role of big data in organizations and the application of tools to provide high-quality information. Students will be able to select the most appropriate data management tool (e.g. SQL vs. non-SQL databases) to business scenarios.

Business Intelligence and Data Analytics

Introduces business intelligence and data analytics. Business intelligence and data analytics help organizations in strategic and operational decision making by improving performance management, optimizing customer relations, monitoring business activity and improving decision support.