Business Information Systems

Description

Upon completion of this course, the student: can define a Business Information system (IS) and identify different types of IS, can understand and apply key strategic models such as Porter's five forces model, the value chain model, and the strategic alignment model, especially in terms of the strategic impact of information technology, understand the basic concept of IT Governance, knows the key steps of the business process management cycle, can read, understand and create BPMN process models, can read and understand UML class diagrams and relational information models, can query relational databases with SQL, can explain the role of information systems for decision support as well as how business intelligence systems can be used, understands the difference between predictive and descriptive data mining and understands how basic analytics techniques work, understands different aspects, technologies, and business models in an e-business context. understands essential concepts and terminology in the domain of e-business, understands key concepts and techniques in the domain of web analytics.