ITECH7407- REAL-TIME ANALYTICS TEAM ASSIGNMENT WEIGHTING: 30% (20% for the report and 10% for the presentation) TASK Group Presentation DUE DATE Week 10 – Presentation Week 11– Research Report DETAILS In recent years, the ability of Business Intelligence (BI) technologies to provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations based on the collection, extraction, and analysis of business data to improve decision has been the basis of several studies. More recently, "Big Data" and "Big Data Analytics" have further stirred the interest of researchers and practitioners alike. In this track, write a research report of about 3000 words highlighting how a particular large company utilizes Big Data to enhance productivity and efficiency. The report should be well researched and written in accordance with APA referencing style. REQUIRED Form a group of between 3 and 4 members. The following are the deliverables in this project: 1. First is the Proposal. Your team will propose a research study that will involve investigating and determining how a particular large organization use Big Data for driving productivity, in a no more than 5-minute presentation in class for feedback and approval by the lecturer in week 7. 2. Final deliverable consists of a presentation (10%) in week 10 and a research report (20%) in week 11. The presentation of your findings in this project would be of about 20-minute duration. Every student is expected to submit a short report to their lecturer stating their contribution to their team. Lecturers reserve the right to reduce a student's mark if their contribution to their team is deemed insubstantial. Each team is expected to present their report findings as part of the "Team Report Presentation" assessment task during week 10. CRICOS Provider No. ITECH 5402 Enterprise Systems Page 1 of 4 00103D You are reminded to read the "Plagiarism" section of the course description. Your essay should be a synthesis of ideas from a variety of sources expressed in your own words. All reports must use the APA referencing style. University Referencing/Citation Style Guide: The University has published a style guide to help students correctly reference and cite information they use in assignments (American Psychological Association (APA) citation style, http://www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/student/learning_support/generalguide/print/ch06s04 .shtmlor Australian citation style Reports are to be presented in hard copy in size 12 ArialFont and doublespaced. Your report should include a list of references used in the essay and a bibliography of the wider reading you have done to familiarize yourself on the topic. Report Submission: Hard-copy to tutors/lecturers assignment box inweek11.Doublesided printing for the hard-copy is encouraged in order to save paper.Declaration should be done to declare how much (percentage) each of the team has contributed to the report. A passing grade will be awarded to assignments adequately addressing all assessment criteria. Higher grades require better quality and more effort. For example, a minimum is set on the wider reading required. A student reading vastly more than this minimum will be better prepared to discuss the issues in depth and consequently their report is likely to be of a higher quality. So before submitting, please read through the assessment criteria very carefully. CRICOS Provider No. ITECH 5402 Enterprise Systems Page 2 of 4 00103D Team Report Weighting: 20% for Team Report Student IDs: Assessment Criteria: Score Very Good Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory (0) Presentation Information is well Information is Information is somewhat Information is somewhat /Layout organized, well written, organized, well written, organized, proper organized, but proper and proper grammar with proper grammar grammar and grammar and and punctuation are and punctuation. punctuation mostly punctuation not always used throughout. Correct layout used. used. Correct layout used. Some elements of /2.5 marks Correct layout used. used. layout incorrect. Structure Structure guidelines Structure guidelines Structure guidelines Some elements of Enhanced followed exactly mostly followed. structure omitted /2.5 marks Introduction Introduces the topic of Introduces the topic of Satisfactorily introduces Introduces the topic of the report in an the report in an the topic of the report. the report, but omits a extremely engaging engaging manner which Gives a general general background of manner which arouses arouses the reader's background. the topic and/or the the reader's interest. interest. Indicates the overall overall "plan" of the Gives a detailed general Gives some general "plan" of the paper. paper. background and background and indicates the overall indicates the overall /2.5 marks "plan" of the paper. "plan" of the paper. Discussion of All topics discussed in Consistently detailed Most topics are Inadequate discussion Topics depth. Displays deep discussion. Displays adequately discussed. of issues Little/no analysis of issues with sound understanding Displays some demonstrated no irrelevant info. with some analysis of understanding and understanding or issues and no irrelevant analysis of issues. analysis of most issues Information and/or some irrelevant /8 marks information. Conclusion An interesting, well A good summary of the Satisfactory summary of Poor/no summary of the written summary of the main points. the main points. main points. main points. A good final comment A final comment on the A poor final comment on An excellent final on the subject, based subject, but introduced the subject and/or new comment on the on the information new material. material introduced. subject, based on the provided. /2.5 marks information provided. Referencing Correct referencing Mostly correct Mostly correct Not all material correctly (APA). All quoted referencing (APA). All referencing (APA ) acknowledged. material in quotes and quoted material in Some problems with Some problems with the acknowledged. All Quotes & acknowledged. quoted material and reference list. paraphrased material All paraphrased material paraphrased material acknowledged. acknowledged. Some problems with the Correctly set out Mostly correct setting reference list. /2 marks reference list. out reference list. SubTotal-1 /20 marks CRICOS Provider No. ITECH 5402 Enterprise Systems Page 3 of 4 00103D Team Report Presentation Weighting: 10% for Team Presentation Students are expected to create and present a 10-15 minute overview of the findings from their Team Report. Student IDs: Assessment Criteria: Criteria Marks Introduction /1 Content /4 Conclusion /1 Presentation Style e.g. clarity, engagement /2 Team participation /1 Timing (10-15 minutes) /1 SubTotal-2 /10 General Comments: Team assignment Total = SubTotal-1 + SubTotal-2. 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