Business Intelligence
Introducing a Major Innovation in Data Mining
Welcome to the MBA concentration in Business Intelligence for the Manderson Graduate School of Business at the University of Alabama. One of the few programs of its kind offered within a college of business, it delivers the exceptional knowledge, skills and experience you need to produce valuable results for your organization. And, it’s one of the few graduate business programs to prepare you for certification in SAS Enterprise Miner, the premiere software tool for the data mining industry.
Data mining reveals how organizations can improve their performance. By detecting hidden patterns and relationships among massive amounts of raw information, data mining produces knowledge that leads to action that produces results.
Data skills won’t do it alone. It also takes a broad understanding of business and hands-on experience solving real business problems. Precious few professionals posess this unique combination of knowledge, skills and experience.
Business Intelligence ChecksheetThe Power to Shape Virtually Every Corner of Society
As data mining enters the mainstream, it raises difficult questions. With an approach to values-based leadership celebrated by The Wall Street Journal and others, we challenge you to negotiate terrain not yet defined by precedent and law and to consider how data mining can align corporate self-interest with public good.
Potential Job Placements for the Business Intelligence concentration:
· Credit Scoring Analysts
· Credit Risk Managers
· Risk Assessment Analysts
· Customer Retention Modeling Analysts
· Business Intelligence Analysts
· Senior Business Analysts
· Fraud Analysts
· Operational Risk Analysts
A Wealth of Opportunities for Business-Minded Analysts
Data mining is projected to grow exponentially over the next several years. That does not begin to indicate the possibilities for professionals with strong business credentials as well. Here, the demand far exceeds the existing number of qualified persons. An MBA degree, with broad business background and SAS certification,helps you win coveted positions and advance quickly.
Program Partners
In addition to teaching and research assistantships, many students have worked on projects for:
- The Alabama Productivity Center
- Center for Business and Economic Research, C&BA
- Research Assistance Lab, College of Educations , UA
- Wise Alloys, Inc.
- University Transportation Center for Alabama
- Registrar’s Office, UA
- CEnter for Teaching and Learning, UA
- C&BA Registrar’s Office, UA
- Office for Institutional Research, UA
- Southtrust Bank (Wachovia Bank)
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama subsidiary
- University of Alabama at Birmingham College of Medicine
- Center for Aging, UA
Recent Accomplishments and Milestones
- Dr. Subha Chakraborti, professor of statistics, was a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa , 2004
- Dr. Hardin is co-chairman for M2004, SAS’s Annual Data Mining Technology Conference
- G. Fan, a statistics student at UA, was the 2003 American Statistical Association national student paper competition winner
- The Institute of Business Intelligence was created in 2003
- The Business Intelligence Symposium, held in October 2003, was hosted jointly with SAS, Inc.
Organizations:
The Institute of Business Intelligence (IBI)
is an applied research center within which data mining techniques are used to extract information from vast amounts of corporate data. The center serves as a key focal point for business intelligence research within the College and for University/Industry partnerships involving applied research in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.Data Mining Certification from SAS is achieved with successful completion of the four course sequence:
- ST 521- Introduction to Data Management
- ST 522- Advanced Data Management
- ST 531- Introduction to Data Mining
- ST 532- Advanced Data Mining