Fundamentals of business information systems

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Modern organisations need business information systems to support their internal operations and their interactions with external parties (suppliers, customers, competitors, government, etc). As such, basic knowledge on the concepts of business information system development and management is essential. Business processes and information systems are interwoven: changing a business process results in changing the information systems supporting it and vice versa. It is therefore also important that students are able to model the complex relation between business processes and information systems. In this relation, data and process models play a key role. A data model specifies which data of the business process the supporting information systems should collect, store and manipulate. A process model specifies the steps in the business process and their interdependencies that have to be supported by the information system. Both types of models can be used to develop or configure information systems that support business processes. During a typical week, there will be a lecture where the modeling concepts of the week will be explained and a guided self-study session where students can practice the explained concepts under the guidance of tutors. In preparation for the final exam, students are expected to learn the information systems theories from the book.   

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