COMP3350 Assignment 2 - Business Intelligence
COMP3350
Assignment 2 – Business Intelligence
Semester 1, 2023
Each group will • upload the assignment files to Canvas and • present your BI report and demonstrate your assignment on tutorial session on Apr 25th - 26th All members must be present for the demonstration. Groups without demonstrations will be penalised for sections which are not demonstrated. Weighting 20% of course mark
Assignment Information
This is a group assignment. This assignment has 3 sections.
Group Formation You need to work in groups of two for this assignment. You may continue with your group members in Assignment 1 or form different groups for Assignment 2. If you are forming a different group from Assignment 2, you must email the lecturer (CCing your new group member and old group member from Assignment 1) by on 5th April 11:59pm. Otherwise, your group is assumed to be the same as in Assignment 1.
Assignment Specifications
This assignment has 3 sections.
Section 1: Datawarehouse Design (5 marks)
In this section you will design a data warehouse schema for the LeisureAustralasia (the scenario discussed in Assignment 1). Design a data warehouse schema to satisfy LeisureAustralasia’s decision makers’ information needs. You need to only design the data warehouse schema only. You do not need to implement it. You need to write a short report explaining subject-area/s covered by your data warehouse, illustrate the documented schema and discuss how the data warehouse
satisfies the information analysis needs of the University. Give examples of analysis queries that your design supports.
Save your document as DatawarehouseDesignLeisureAustralasia
Section 2: ETL Exercise (3 marks)
In this section, you will create an ETL task to load Customer Data to a table. Your group is already provided with sample text data of Customer data.
• Customer data: Data on customers (CustomerData.txt)
Your group is asked to load this data into SQL Server database called StagingArea by creating a Server Integration Services (SSIS) project, called Assignment3
Section 3: Business Intelligence Report (12 marks)
Download and restore the WorldWideImporters (WWI) Data Warehouse sample database. Download WideWorldImportersDW-Full.bak file from https://github.com/Microsoft/sql-server-samples/releases/tag/wide-world-importers- v1.0.
The following information about WWI are extracted from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/samples/wide-world-importers-what- is?view=sql-server-2017
Wide World Importers (WWI) is a wholesale novelty goods importer and distributor operating from the San Francisco bay area. As a wholesaler, WWI's customers are mostly companies who resell to individuals. WWI sells to retail customers across the United States including specialty stores, supermarkets, computing stores, tourist attraction shops, and some individuals. WWI also sells to other wholesalers via a network of agents who promote the products on WWI's behalf. While all of WWI's customers are currently based in the United States, the company is intending to push for expansion into other countries.
WWI buys goods from suppliers including novelty and toy manufacturers, and other novelty wholesalers. They stock the goods in their WWI warehouse and reorder from suppliers as needed to fulfil customer orders. They also purchase large volumes of packaging materials and sell these in smaller quantities as a convenience for the customers.
Recently WWI started to sell a variety of edible novelties such as chilli chocolates. The company previously did not have to handle chilled items. Now, to meet food handling requirements, they must monitor the temperature in their chiller room and any of their trucks that have chiller sections.
Workflow for warehouse stock items The typical flow for how items are stocked and distributed is as follows: • WWI creates purchase orders and submits the orders to the suppliers. • Suppliers send the items, WWI receives them and stocks them in their warehouse. • Customers order items from WWI • WWI fills the customer order with stock items in the warehouse, and when they do not have sufficient stock, they order the additional stock from the suppliers. • Some customers do not want to wait for items that are not in stock. If they order say five different stock items, and four are available, they want to receive the four items and backorder the remaining item. The item would them be sent later in a separate shipment. • WWI invoices customers for the stock items, typically by converting the order to an invoice.
• Customers might order items that are not in stock. These items are backordered. • WWI delivers stock items to customers either via their own delivery vans, or via other couriers or freight methods. • Customers pay invoices to WWI. • Periodically, WWI pays suppliers for items that were on purchase orders. This is often sometime after they have received the goods. Additional workflows These are additional workflows. • WWI issues credit notes when a customer does not receive the good for some reason, or when the goods are faulty. These are treated as negative invoices. • WWI periodically counts the on-hand quantities of stock items to ensure that the stock quantities shown as available on their system are accurate. (The process of doing this is called a stocktake). • Cold room temperatures. Perishable goods are stored in refrigerated rooms. Sensor data from these rooms is ingested into the database for monitoring and analytics purposes. • Vehicle location tracking. Vehicles that transport goods for WWI include sensors that track the location. This location is again ingested into the database for monitoring and further analytics.
Part A: Reporting (2 marks)
You are asked to create a report using SQL Server’s Reporting Services. Save the project as Assignment2_
Part B: Data Analytics (10 marks)
Explore the data warehouse schema and data. Select subject area(s) that your group would like to analyse in WWI. Create data mart(s) either using SQL Server Analysis Server or directly import the data to Power BI data model to analyse. Save the project/file as Assignment2_
Analyse the data and write a Business Intelligence report based on World Wide. Use PowerBI’s visuals, dashboards etc. in your analysis, data visualisation and presentation.
Note that your BI report is presented to the business management team of World Wide Importers such as CEO and senior management, so your BI report should be understood by business decision makers of WWI.
Write a report detailing data analysis, information discovered and present helpful insights and actions items from your data analysis. Use appropriate tables, charts, graphs etc. to present your findings. In addition to the written report, you need to present your BI report to class on Apr 25th-26th tutorial session. Your group’s presentation should not exceed 10 minutes.
Save your report as BusinessIntelligenceReport_
