The instructions for writing the paper (guidlines) are attached. I was thinking you could write about data mining. choose a problem that a company would face and what analytical tools ( forcasting, data mining, regression, Xminer trees, xminer solver platform...etc.) that the company could use to solve that problem. I have attached another file that states what topics we have covered in class. 
 
The Course Materials might be helpful to view the topics adressed:
  Spreadsheet Modeling & Decision Analysis:  A Practical Introduction to Business Analytics, 7th ed., Cliff Ragsdale, Cengage Learning, 2015.  ISBN 978-1-285-41868-1.
 
Technological tools including a number of Add-Ins for MS Excel from Frontline Systems will be utilized throughout the course.