COURSE PRESENTATION FORM - BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS- 2009/2010
COURSE NAME: Business Information Systems
COURSE CODE: 70020
LECTURER: Fabio Mulazzani
TEACHING ASSISTANT: Paolo Ceravolo
TEACHING LANGUAGE: English
CREDIT POINTS: 4
LECTURE HOURS: 24
EXERCISE HOURS: 12
TIMESPAN: 28.09.2009 - 23.01.2010
TIMETABLE: see
Timetable Page
OFFICE HOURS LECTURER: Every Friday afternoon from 16:00 to 18:00 under appointment
OFFICE HOURS TEACHING ASSISTANT: Under appointment, after excercise hours, Piazza Università 1, Faculty of CS, Block C, office 5.01
PREREQUISITES
None
OBJECTIVES
The course is intended to illustrate, under a business and IS perspective, the use of management technology in modern business organizations.
SYLLABUS
- Concepts on Business Strategy;
- Insight on Business Processes;
- Enterprise Resource Planning Systems:
- Business Functions, Processes, and Data Requirements;
- ERP Development;
- Marketing Information Sytems and the Sales Order Process;
- Production and supply chain Management Information Systems;
- Accounting in ERP systems;
- Human Resources Processes with ERP;
- Process Modeling, Improvement and Implementation;
- Electronic Commerce.
- Concepts on Strategic Alignment:
- Henderson and Venkatraman Strategic Alignment Model;
- Overview on Business Intelligence Tools
TEACHING FORMAT
Frontal lectures and labs
ASSESSMENT
Written final exam
READING LIST
Textbook:
- Concepts in Enterprise Resource Planning (Second Ed.) by Ellen Monk, Bret Wagner;
- Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Systems, Life Cycle, Electronic Commerce, and Risk by Daniel E. O’Leary.
Documents Freely available online:
Other documents uploaded on the course website
SOFTWARE USED --
LEARNING OUTCOME
At the end of the course the student will be able to analyze the context of a company both from a business and technical perspective. Furthermore, the student will know what are the fundamental Information Systems functionalities required for a variety of business contexts.
COURSE PAGE
http://www.teleacademy.it/