An Overview: The purpose, data, information, and information systems and their types, ethical and societal issues, information systems in business functions, web empowered enterprises.
Strategies and Strategic moves, Achieving a competitive advantage, creating and maintaining strategic information systems, Business Functions and Supply Chains – effectiveness and efficiency, accounting, finance, engineering, supply chain management, Human resource management, Enterprise resource planning.
Business Hardware – components, classification of computers, output devices, storage media, and purchasing,, Business Software – programming languages and software development tools, language translation, compilers and interpreters, system software, open source software, software licensing, ethical issues,
Telecommunication in Business and Daily Use, Bandwidths and Media, networks, protocols, internet networking services, Telecommuting – pros and cons, Future of Networking Technologies.
Web enabled enterprises – web business and technologies, web enabled business, Challenges of Global Information Systems – Multinational organizations, international commerce, ethical issues.
Decision support and expert systems – decision support and decision making process, structured and unstructured problems, decision support systems, expert systems, geographical systems, Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management – Data Mining and online analysis, knowledge management,
Systems Planning and Development – Planning Information systems, systems development life cycle, agile methods, systems integration, ethical issues – IS professionals certification.
Options and Priorities, outsourcing, licensing applications, software as a service, user application development, ethical issues- computer use policies for employees.