SYLLABUS

1. Program description
1.1 University Bucharest University of Economic Studies
1.2 Faculty Finance, Insurance, Banks and Stock Exchanges
1.3 Department Finance
1.4 Field of study Finance
1.5 Study cycle Master
1.6 Program of study/ Qualification Financial Management and Investments

2. Course description
2.1 The name of discipline Business Intelligence
Course Code 13.0215ZI1.1-0005
2.2 Professor for the course Prof. univ. dr. Victoria Stanciu
2.3 Professor for the seminar Prof. univ. dr. Victoria Stanciu
2.4 Year of Study I 2.5 I 2.6 Type of the Exam 2.7 Type of the Mandatory
Semester evaluation course

3. Total estimated time (hours/semester of didactic activities)

3.1 Total number of teaching 3 of which: 2 1
hours per week 3.2 course 3.3 seminar/lab
activities
3.4 Total number of teaching 42 of which: 28 14
hours per semester (cf. 3.5 course 3.6 seminar/lab
curricula) activities
Time allotment for individual study hours
Study of the lecture notes, course support, bibliography 25
Additional documentation (in libraries, on electronic platforms, field documentation) 30
Preparation for seminar/ lab classes, homework, referrals, projects and essays 35
Tutorship 2
Evaluation 2
Other activities: Work on the projects assigned at the seminar 14
3.7 Total number of hours for
108
individual study
3.8 Total number of hours per
semester (teaching hours and 150
individual study)
3. 9 Number of ECTS credits
6
allocated

4. Pre-requisites (if necessary)

4.1 curriculum Data bases
Financial analysis
Microsoft Office applications
4.2 competences Knowlegde and usage of compters:
 1. Computing skills
2. Spread sheets
3. Data bases create and use of data bases

5. Requirements ( if necessary )
5.1. regarding Lectures take place in rooms with multimedia teaching equipment and
course delivery Internet access
5.2. regarding Classrooms equipped with multimedia teaching equipment and computers
seminar delivery connected to the Internet and to the universitys intranet

6. Specific competencies acquired

C3 - Integration of theories, principles and methods specific to financial management of
competencies
Professional

multinational companies

7. Objectives of the discipline (outcome of the acquired competencies)

7.1 General objective of
the discipline
7.2 Specific objective of
the discipline
Developing the skills on decision making:
- Cognitive skills regarding the problems approaching
and searching the solutions;
- Methodological skills on relevant information
searching;
- Technical abilities related to the usage of the modern
IT tools and dedicated applications.
Identifying the data needed in the process of business
management, means of data synthesis and analysis; sources
of data.
Acquiring data organizing and storage methods and
specific technologies.
Acquiring exploitation techniques for data structures.
Developing the skills for information designing for
business management applications:
Technologies on information interpretation creating
knowledge.
Training on business intelligence applications provided by
recognized software vendors.
New technologies: knowledge management.

8. Content
Teaching
8. 1 Course Remarks
methods
- Presenting the objectives of the lectures and provided PowerPoint It is recommended
 skills. presentation and for the students to
- Decision support systems for business: student previously read the
Decision environment, decisions, models for interaction lecture support
decision making process. 1,5 lectures material in order to
DSS: definition, characteristics, evolution, be able to interact
classification. during class.
Types of information systems systems integration.
Integrating DSS with the companys information
systems.
- Support technologies for decision making process:
Storage technologies: PowerPoint Idem
Data bases ERP presentation and
Information data bases data warehouses, cubs, student
hypercube. interaction
Exploitation technologies: 4 lectures
OLAP
Data mining
Interpretation technologies:
Knowledge data bases artificial intelligence,
expert systems, CBR.
Knowledge management technologies.

Domains using business intelligence (BI): PowerPoint

- BI for operational management (optimizing, presentation and Idem
forecast, planning, budgeting); student
- BI for middle management - dashboards, balance interaction
scorecards; 3 lectures
- BI for top management: analyzing the business
environment, analyze of the companys position in
the market (SWOT, Porter).

Elements of information design for BI applications: PowerPoint

- Data design presentation and Idem
- Rations/indicators student
- Analysis criteria hierarchies navigation: roll- interaction
up/drill down. 2,5 lectures
Dashboards
BI SUPPORT-applications: PowerPoint Idem
SQL SERVER; SPSS; SAS; EXCEL; presentation and
SAP, ORACLE, SAS, MICROSOFT student
interaction
2 lectures
Integrating BI applications with the companys PowerPoint
information systems: BI competence centers. presentation and Idem
student
interaction
1 lecture
Bibliography
Albescu F., Pugna I., Paraschiv D., Business information engineering - an approach in
integrating business & information technologies, Journal of accounting and information
systems, 2007
Albescu F., Pugna I., Paraschiv D., Business & Competitive Intelligence Tehnological
support for strategic management in a knowledge based economy, Revista Informatica
economic 4/2008
Albescu F., Pugna I., Paraschiv D., Cross-cultural knowledge management, Revista
Informatica Economica,Vol 13 nr 4/2009 ISSN 1453-1305, EISSN 1842-8088
Albescu, F., I.Pugna (2003), Management Information Systems & Decision Support Systems,
DualTech, Bucuresti
Turban, E., J. Aronson (2007), Decision support systems and business intelligence systems, Ed.
Pearson Education
Zaharie, D., F.Albescu, I.Pugna, V. Ivancenco (2001), Decision support system -
Datawarehouse, Olap, Data mining, DualTech , Bucuresti
IBM Global Business Intelligence Solutions (2006) Knowledge management overview,
www. ibm.com/bi
8. 2 Seminar/lab activities Teaching
Remarks
methods
Requirements for lab activities and students final Debate, The students are
projects. demonstration, using computers,
Debate in regard with different work environments assisted libraries of models,
facilitating decision support. individual work public data bases etc
Models management systems Excel. Operational
research, dedicated software.
Business activities modeling business processes Demonstration, idem
sub-processes, cost accounting model, inventories. assisted
Business models financial accounting model. individual work
Budgeting, planning, simulations, scenarios, Demonstration, idem
optimizing assisted
individual work
- Designing a data warehouse multidimentional Demonstration, idem
conceptual model. assisted
- Designing the hypercube associated to the data individual work
warehouse 2 activities

- Data aggregation techniques. Homework, idem

- Preparing market benchmark. demonstration,
assisted
individual work
- Preparing strategies. Establishing objectives. Action Demonstration, idem
plans. assisted
individual work
Bibliography
Albescu F., Pugna I., Paraschiv D., Business information engineering - an approach in
integrating business & information technologies, Journal of accounting and information
systems, 2007
Albescu F., Pugna I., Paraschiv D., Business & Competitive Intelligence Tehnological
support for strategic management in a knowledge based economy, Revista Informatica
 economic 4/2008
Albescu F., Pugna I., Paraschiv D., Cross-cultural knowledge management, Revista
Informatica Economica,Vol 13 nr 4/2009 ISSN 1453-1305, EISSN 1842-8088
Albescu, F., I.Pugna (2003), Management Information Systems & Decision Support Systems,
DualTech, Bucuresti
Turban, E., J. Aronson (2007), Decision support systems and business intelligence systems, Ed.
Pearson Education
Zaharie, D., F.Albescu, I.Pugna, V. Ivancenco (2001), Decision support system -
Datawarehouse, Olap, Data mining, DualTech , Bucuresti
IBM Global Business Intelligence Solutions (2006) Knowledge management overview,
www. ibm.com/bi

9. Corroborating the content of the discipline with the expectations of the epistemic
community, professional associations and representative employers within the field of the
program
The contents are consistent with present curricula of prominent universities in social and economic
fields. In order to better adapt the program to the specific requirements of the labor market we
resorted to meetings with business professionals and analysts, graduated students implementing BI
applications, being familiar with problems concerning information modeling and customization of
standard BI solutions provided by major software vendors.

10. Evaluation
10.3 Share
Type of activity 10.1 Evaluation criteria 10.2 Evaluation methods in the final
grade (%)

Active debates based on Evaluation of the students active

10%
questions, comments and participation
10.4 Course
examples
40%
Assessing the students Written exam
knowledge

Student involvement in Evaluation of the students results

the lab activities and the in lab activities
20%
10.5. Seminar/lab quality of the solutions
activities
Practical skills acquired Individual project
30%

10.6 Minimum performance standard

- Accomplishment of a minimum set of requirements explicitly specified for individual
project.
- Minimum 5 in written examination
Date of syllabus Signature of the professor for the Signature of the professor for the
proposal course seminar

10.09.2013 Prof. univ. dr. Victoria Stanciu Prof. univ. dr. Victoria Stanciu

Date of the approval in the Signature of the Head of the department

department

12.09.2013