Weekly Report (Oct 28 - Nov 4)

In this week, I have made research about the BI products on current market and read several tutorials about data mining. I've looked for IBM Cognos, SAP and Oracle to inspire from them in our project. Actually, when we are searching for an advisor company, some of them said that they already use some-kind of a system we plan to do. SAP is prevalent in middle-sized companies whereas Oracle is common at the much bigger companies. I think learning the algorithms and design choices made in these products can give inspiration to our project as well. On the other hand, I started to study data mining in this week. I think data mining is very important application area in computer science rather than a pure research topic. Extracting meaningful and useful patterns from large data sets explains the main idea of data mining. In business intelligence, obtained meaningful patterns from huge data provides people to estimate about future plans and it explains why the BI is vital for enterprises. After reading some material about data mining, I realized that algorithms we are to use on data mining phase of project will constitute the skeleton of whole work. As we talked in meeting, we will share the subjects about data mining to proceed more efficiently. In the next week, I plan to continue studying data mining . Also we will meet with our advisor company about SRS (Software Requirements Specification).

Ahmet Erdem SARIYÜCE