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IS Infrastructure: This course provides an introduction to IT infrastructure issues for students majoring in Information Systems. This course covers topics related to both computer and systems architecture and communication networks, with an overall focus on the services and capabilities that IT infrastructure solutions enable in an organizational context. It gives the students the knowledge and skills that they need for communicating effectively with professionals whose special focus is on hardware and systems software technology and for designing organizational processes and software solutions that require in depth understanding of the IT infrastructure capabilities and limitations. The course also prepares the students for organizational roles that require interaction with external vendors of IT infrastructure components and solutions. This course focuses strongly on internet based solutions, computer and network security, business continuity, and the role of infrastructure in regulatory compliance.

IS Analysis and Design: This course serves two audiences: (1) those who want to be an information systems analyst; and (2) those who will be users or managers involved in systems development projects, an active member of a project team, or the client for a system request. Since systems development is central to the IS field, this is a basic course for training you for your career. Information systems concepts, systems analysis and design methodologies and techniques and tools used during the development of information systems will be covered. Students will be exposed to both classic methods and emerging methods of systems analysis and design. The topics necessary for changing environment for systems development will be covered along with a renewed focus on agile methodologies including SCRUM.

Project Management and Practice: The student who successfully completes this course should be able to understand the genesis of project management and its importance to ensure the success of information technology projects. Students will be exposed to project management concepts and techniques such as: the triple constraint of project management, project management knowledge areas, project life cycle, tools and techniques of project management (for example: project selection criteria, work breakdown structures, network diagrams, critical path analysis, cost estimates, and schedule management). Students will learn the essentials of using Primavera P6 to plan and manage IT projects.

Fundamentals of Software Development: This course will provide the students with the fundamentals of software development using a high-level programming language. The course will focus on programming in a windows environment along with the use of a popular integrated development environment. the programming concepts that will be covered include language syntax, variable declaration, decision and iteration processing, method construction and development, data structures, object-oriented programming techniques, file I/O and database integration. Students will construct various small applications to learn the fundamentals of development leading up to a capstone project. Little or no programming experience is required for this course.

E-Commerce Design and Development: This course covers both the principles and practices of conducting business with the help of technologies providing an overview of the past and future of the discipline, business models, traditional and disruptive technologies, marketing strategies and various business systems. In addition, some of the major issues associated with e-commerce, such as security and privacy, will be explored. Also, students will conduct hands-on projects on the latest version of SAP platform, experiencing business processes on the cloud.

Career Paths for Enterprise Systems

Today, more than 404,000 companies in more than 180 countries run SAP applications. SAP customers include 87% of the Forbes Global 2000 companies, 98% of the 100 most valued brands and 100% of the Dow Jones top-scoring sustainability companies. Seventy-six percent of the world’s transaction revenue touches an SAP system. 

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