Design, management and development of a Business Intelligence Project for a company

Abstract

The purpose of this document is to show how a company can meet certain needs through implementing and integrating a Business Intelligence system. In this case, this project has consisted of providing the company with a decision support system based on obtaining privileged information about the company's activity data. This has been integrated into the Power BI platform which allows it to interact with the system and view the information. To achieve the desired result, a work plan has been designed considering the different stages to be developed in a software development project. In the management and implementation of these stages, different knowledge and abilities acquired in the Double Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering and Business Administration and Management have taken part. The part related to Business Administration and Management is based, first, on knowing and interpreting the operation of the business, which implies understanding the business idea and the different criteria and mathematical methods to be applied when analysing the activity of the company. Secondly, on the allocation of resources to the different tasks and the elaboration of a budget accounting the costs according to the different implementation roles to be developed. Finally, on making decisions about methodologies and tools to use considering the characteristics of the company. Regarding the part of Computer Engineering, this is based on the implementation of the Business Intelligence system performing a Requirements Analysis, following good practices of modelling and data processing, using the Agile Scrum methodology for frontend design and applying the principles of CRAP graphic design. Thanks to the joint contribution of these two areas of knowledge in this project, the company now has a BI solution that allows it to have control and monitoring of its economic activity of the different centres and customers in a fast, simple and concise way which meets the established goal.