Study Guide

Objective

As a Student, you
- know and are able to apply and evaluate the importance of modern information systems in supporting business and processes
- know and are able to apply and evaluate the implementation and use of information systems in support of typical value chains of organizations.
- know and are able to apply and evaluate different ways of implementing infrastructures: physical and virtualized solutions, on-premises, cloud services or hybrids.
- understand and are able to evaluate the importance of information systems and data warehouses from the perspective of information management, business information and decision support
- get acquainted with e.g. enterprise resource planning, ecommerce, logistics, financial management, personnel management, product development information systems and the basics of office automation and workgroup applications
- are able to apply the principles of implementation of different information systems of companies
- perform in practice the installation and commissioning of any information system / service discussed in the course
- understand the importance of information security in infrastructure management.
- understand the importance of automation in infrastructure management.

Content

Business needs and applications for IT solutions:
- business and technology
- solutions, benefits and challenges.

Utilization of information technology for business needs:
- business processes, information management, applications, infrastructures.

Infrastructure implementation options;
- on-premises solutions, cloud services, hybrid solutions.
- virtualization
- Opportunities for HPC high-performance computing and quantum computing services.

Networks, devices, services.

Fundamentals of data management, automation and integration platforms.

Enterprise resource management.

Enterprise and information system architectures

Specific issues and solutions for information security in business infrastructures.

Information management and governance.

Evaluation scale

H-5