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The Current State of Business Intelligence in Academia: The Arrival of Big Data
Communications of the Association for Information Systems
  • Barbara Wixom, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  • Thilini Ariyachandra, Xavier University
  • David Douglas, University of Arkansas
  • Michael Goul, Arizona State University
  • Babita Gupta, California State University Monterey Bay
  • Lakshmi Iyer, The University of North Carolina Greensboro
  • Uday Kulkarni, Arizona State University
  • John G. Mooney, Pepperdine University
  • Gloria Phillips-Wren, Loyola University Maryland
  • Ozgur Turetken, Ryerson University
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Abstract

In December 2012, the AIS Special Interest Group on Decision Support, Knowledge and Data Management Systems (SIGDSS) and the Teradata University Network (TUN) cosponsored the Business Intelligence Congress 3 and conducted surveys to assess academia’s response to the growing market need for students with Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Analytics (BA) skill sets. This panel report describes the key findings and best practices that were identified, with an emphasis on what has changed since the BI Congress efforts in 2009 and 2010. The article also serves as a “call to action” for universities regarding the need to respond to emerging market needs in BI/BA, including “Big Data.” The IS field continues to be well positioned to be the leader in creating the next generation BI/BA workforce. To do so, we believe that IS leaders need to continuously refine BI/BA curriculum to keep pace with the turbulent BI/BA marketplace.

DOI
10.17705/1CAIS.03401
Citation Information
Barbara Wixom, Thilini Ariyachandra, David Douglas, Michael Goul, et al.. "The Current State of Business Intelligence in Academia: The Arrival of Big Data" (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/babita-gupta/20/