MIS WEEK 4: REFLECTIONS ON MIS LECTURE AND SEMINAR

WEEK 4: THE LECTURE

This weeks lecture was about enhancing business intelligence using information services. The lecture made the case why businesses need business intelligence . It introduced the concept of big data, which deals with how a business gather and analyse information from internal and external sources so as to make better informed decisions. The lecture analysed the opportunities, threats and requirements of  gathering and managing data for businesses. The lecture further dealt with management of data with databases and business intelligence. There is also the part of using data warehouses for businesses that are data intense. The lecture further dealt with business analytics, decision support  and expert systems, artificial intelligence and neural netwoks

THE SEMINAR
This weeks seminar continued with manipulating excel data with formulas which I found very interesting as we worked with some data similar to what we learnt in semester 1 on Financial Accounting Fundamentals. We were able to use excel to manipulate sales, expenditures and income as we covered in Financial Accounting. Interesting topic