The end of the winter semester 2025/26 also marks the successful end of this year’s Business Intelligence Systems (BIS) capstone project, which is an integral element of the BIS master lecture held by Prof. Dr. Alexander Mädche  and Niklas Wagner. 46 students worked in 10 teams on a retail banking business intelligence & analytics case provided by our industry partner Atruvia, the IT service provider for Germany’s cooperative banks. The capstone project empowers students in collecting hands-on experiences in using and applying state-of-the-art Business Intelligence & Analytics (BI&A) technologies such as the Databricks platform and in parallel build up transferable skills (e.g., communication, team collaboration, etc.).  The task was to build analytical retail banking dashboards including conversational data assistants using large language models. The final presentations took place at Atruvia on January 27th, 2026 and were well received by our partner representatives.