Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence
Course #: IT 471, Class #: 3625, Section #: 01
Description
this course provides students with the technical skills required to plan and implement a data warehouse using a database management system. It describes basic data warehousing concepts. The course covers design and implementation of data marts and operational data stores. Topics include dimensional data modeling for warehouses, CUBES and storage modes including MOLAP, ROLAP and HOLAP, and data warehousing infrastructure and analytical service tool selection. This course involves designing a data warehousing system and the implementation of a database with a stare schema, gathering data from primary data sources, transforming data, and loading it into a database management system. Students create cubes using OLAP and analyze cube data using client application.
Prerequisites
Open to IT-BS and CM majors. Students in partner programs may register for this course starting 01/05/2026. Guest students and non-partner program students may submit registration requests starting 01/15/2026 IT 110 or MSIS 110 and IT/MSIS 230L or MSIS 411