Business information systems enable, support and accelerate new forms of business processes and organizational structures. They therefore represent central infrastructures of economic activity in the age of e-business. For this reason, the lecture, the exercises and the accompanying practical computer course teach the basics of configuring, parameterizing and introducing business information systems. The course provides students with in-depth knowledge in the following subject areas:

• Analysis of cooperation and business process scenarios
• Selection of a subject-related modeling method according to communicable criteria
• Implementation of business process and/or cooperation models on standard software
• Identification and assessment of challenges when introducing the systems into the organization
• Evaluating the economics of the implemented systems

This course cannot be credited at the same time as Programming Commercial Systems - Applications in Networks with Java [2511020].

Learning objectives:

Students

• explain the basic terms and principles of business information systems,
• describe the components of business information systems,
• assess the economic aspects of such systems,
• use exemplary standard software to model business processes and analyze them according to given criteria.

Recommendations:

Knowledge from the lectures Fundamentals of Computer Science I and II is helpful.

Notes:

• No registration is required to attend the lecture.
• For the blackboard exercises, registration via YouSubscribe(direct link) will begin after the first lecture date on October 24, 2014 at 12:00 am and will run until October 28, 2014 at 11:59 pm. The draw for the dates will be announced on Friday, 31.10.2014.
• For the Horus Lab, registration via YouSubscribe(direct link) will also begin after the first lecture date, but will run until 10.11.2014. The draw for the Horus Labs will take place in the 46th calendar week.

Workload:

• The total workload for this course unit is approx. 135 hours.
• Attendance of the lecture 30h
• Attendance of the exercise 15h
• Preparation and follow-up of the lecture 23h
• Preparation and follow-up of the exercise 10h
• Computer exercises 30h
• Exam preparation 26h
• Exam 1h
• Exercise is carried out by tutors (size approx. 50 students)

• Schönthaler, Vossen, Oberweis, Karle: Business Processes for Business Communities: Modeling Languages, Methods, Tools. Springer 2012.
• Hasenkamp, Stahlknecht: Introduction to Information Systems. Springer 2012.
• Hansen, Neumann: Business Informatics I. Fundamentals of business information processing. UTB 2009.
• Mertens et al: Fundamentals of Information Systems. Springer 2012.

Further literature will be announced in the lecture.