This course examines current topics in enterprise and big data management from data generation, storage, transfer, and business analytics. Topics include, but are not limited to: 1) comparison of in-memory versus distributed file system approaches, 2) differences between relational and NoSQL databases, and 3) social network and sentiment analysis. It also covers prinicples of cloud databases and data centers. Prerequisities: Minimum grade of C in BUAN 325 and in BUAN 434 (F;S;SS).