Aitp Ncc Bi Gis Competition: a Bi Case Perspective

A national competition problem in business intelligence (BI) is considered to provide an understanding of this competition and the case study problem used. This competition utilizes a commercially available, hosted software application that includes a rich econometric data set. The data are accessed using spatial queries and produce more than four dozen views of the data through predefined reports. Once the queries occur, the data can be analyzed further with other BI tools that include Microsoft Excel. The competition problem requires this analysis of external business data to furnish information for business decision making. This competition has been successful for the past four years. The experience of this competition can be applied to case-based, experiential learning in decision support systems and related information system courses that include a BI component. This usage of the competition problem has been found to work well in several of these courses and should be considered by others for similar courses.