Business Information Systems

Course Structure

1. systems design covering object-oriented design methodologies
2. fault monitoring - an introduction to the problem of software quality management
3. decision-making systems
4. project management
5. Introduction to Business Processes and Enterprise Systems
6. Accounting in Enterprise Systems
7. Procurement in Enterprise Systems
8. Order fulfilment in Enterprise Systems
9. Production and Material Planning in Enterprise Systems
10. Inventory and Warehouse Management in Enterprise Systems
11. Business Process Integration
12. Implementing Enterprise Systems
13. Introduction
14. The e-environment: e-business models and enabling technologies
15. E-business strategies: analysis, formulation and implementation
16. E-business strategies: analysis, formulation and implementation
17. The e-business supply chain: business processes and information systems integration
18. The e-business supply chain (continuation) and e-business processes
19. E-business processes and relationships
20. E-procurement
21. E-marketing and customer relationship management (CRM)
22. Challenges for e-business and the networked organisation
23. Advanced concepts in the computer systems design and implementation
24. Advanced concepts in distributed systems, networking, and cloud computing
25. Principles of large-scale data storage and processing
26. NoSQL Data Stores (MongoDB, and others)
27. Distributed processing frameworks (Hadoop, Pig, and others)
28. Design and implementation of an On-Line Analytics Processing (OLAP) solution based on the studied storage and processing frameworks
29. Introduction to Business Intelligence for Decision Support;
30. Concepts, Methodologies, and Technologies of Business Intelligence: An Overview;
31. Data Warehousing;
32. Data Mining for Business Intelligence;
33. Data Analysis Techniques;
34. Advanced Intelligent Systems: Emerging Trends and Impact
35. Introduction: Types of computer crime, history, surveys, statistics and global connections
36. Legal Measures: Computer Misuse, Criminal Damage, Software Piracy, Forgery,Investigative Powers
37. Case Studies: Investigations into hacking, cases and PC misuse
38. Social Engineering
39. Spam, Phishing and Pharming
40. Malware: The types, effects, and investigations
41. DoS and Distributed DoS: The causes, mechanisms, case studies, and countermeasures
42. Network Crimes: Hacking methodologies via the Internet and attacks to other networks
43. Investigations, incident handling and forensic examination
44. The Future: The expansion of the Internet, pornography and other unsuitable material
45. Identity Theft and Fraud
46. the ability to evaluate critically current research and research methodologies within the fields of Management and Business Information Systems and Technologies
47. the ability to apply critical methodologies in analysing Management and Business Information Systems and formulating effective solutions to relevant problems concerning IT systems planning and management
48. the ability to make well-informed decisions when dealing with both tactical and and strategic issues of IT investment
49. appropriate professional levels of attainment in information technology; production and analysis of quantitative data; oral and written communication of complex business information to both professional and non-specialist audiences; independent and team-working skills.