IMS9003

Business information management

Offered subject to approval

G Shanks

6 points - 2 hours per week - First semester - Caulfield - Prohibitions: BUS3112, COT2138, COT3180, GCO2815, CFR2201, IMS2112

Objectives At the completion of this subject students should have knowledge of the importance of information management within business and the techniques, technology and organisational roles and structures to support information management; understanding of techniques to model information and the technology required for information management; skills necessary to design and implement relational and multidimensional databases; and attitudes necessary to participate confidently in tasks associated with information management within organisations.

Synopsis This subject is designed to introduce students to techniques and technology of information management within organisations. The main topics include the motivation for information management, data management technologies, relational and legacy database systems, designing relational databases, use of the SQL language, data warehousing, dimensional modelling, data sourcing and data quality in data warehouses, document management, and the data management function within organisations.

Assessment Practical work: 100%

Recommended texts

Gray P and Watson H Decision support in the data warehouse Prentice Hall, 1998
Kimball R The data warehouse toolkit Wiley
McFadden F and Hoffer J A modern database management 4th edn, Benjamin-Cummings, 1997
Watson R T Data management: An organisational perspective Wiley, 1996

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