Information systems

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Information systems

• DT211 3

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Practical Syllabus

• Lab work Student reviews a topic via a number of
  information sources and writes a brief report on
  findings and evaluates the source
• Web-sites
• White papers
• Conferences
• Journals

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Theory Syllabus

• An information system is an interrelated set of
  components working together to collect, retrieve,
  process, store, and disseminate information for
  the purpose of facilitating planning, control,
  coordination, and decision making in businesses
  and other organisations to aid in achieving the
  vision and mission of the organisation

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Theory Syllabus

• Theory
• Introduction to IS and management IS
• Overview of strategic management theory
• Data, Information, knowledge and Databases
• Relational databases and utilisation issues
  (concurrency recovery and query optimisation)
• Multi-dimensional databases
• Distributed databases
• OO databases
• Components of organisational Information systems
  (DSS)
• DW and operational databases
• DM
• Data visualisation and analysis (OLAP)
• Decision support systems
• IS implementation issues
• IS Design (distributed parallel management etc)
• IS robustness
• IS security