TY - JOUR
T1 - Business Intelligence and Analytics education, and program development
T2 - A unique opportunity for the Information Systems discipline
AU - Chiang, Roger H.L.
AU - Goes, Paulo
AU - Stohr, Edward A.
PY - 2012/10
Y1 - 2012/10
N2 - "Big Data," huge volumes of data in both structured and unstructured forms generated by the Internet, social media, and computerized transactions, is straining our technical capacity to manage it. More importantly, the new challenge is to develop the capability to understand and interpret the burgeoning volume of data to take advantage of the opportunities it provides in many human endeavors, ranging from science to business. Data Science, and in business schools, Business Intelligence and Analytics (BI&A) are emerging disciplines that seek to address the demands of this new era. Big Data and BI&A present unique challenges and opportunities not only for the research community, but also for Information Systems (IS) programs at business schools. In this essay, we provide a brief overview of BI&A, speculate on the role of BI&A education in business schools, present the challenges facing IS departments, and discuss the role of IS curricula and program development, in delivering BI&A education. We contend that a new vision for the IS discipline should address these challenges.
AB - "Big Data," huge volumes of data in both structured and unstructured forms generated by the Internet, social media, and computerized transactions, is straining our technical capacity to manage it. More importantly, the new challenge is to develop the capability to understand and interpret the burgeoning volume of data to take advantage of the opportunities it provides in many human endeavors, ranging from science to business. Data Science, and in business schools, Business Intelligence and Analytics (BI&A) are emerging disciplines that seek to address the demands of this new era. Big Data and BI&A present unique challenges and opportunities not only for the research community, but also for Information Systems (IS) programs at business schools. In this essay, we provide a brief overview of BI&A, speculate on the role of BI&A education in business schools, present the challenges facing IS departments, and discuss the role of IS curricula and program development, in delivering BI&A education. We contend that a new vision for the IS discipline should address these challenges.
KW - Big Data
KW - Business intelligence & analytics
KW - Data mining
KW - Data warehousing
KW - Text analytics
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U2 - 10.1145/2361256.2361257
DO - 10.1145/2361256.2361257
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84869408424
SN - 2158-656X
VL - 3
JO - ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems
JF - ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems
IS - 3
M1 - 12
ER -