Monash University

Leader: Caulfield - Sue Foster; Malaysia - Thomas O'Daniel

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2008 (Day)
Sunway First semester 2008 (Day)

Synopsis

This provides an understanding of the portfolio of information systems needed to support a large organisation, based on ERP packages as the principal business information system in large organisations. It examines the forms and mechanisms of business process integration and data integration between the Enterprise System and other business information systems, including legacy systems and office systems. It introduces students to the concept of workflow and to selected software tools for process modelling and workflow design, and to the different types of integration software (middleware) and technologies that enable business process integration through workflow automation.

Objectives

At the completion of the unit students will have knowledge and understanding of:

1. the evolution and current application of Enterprise Systems;
2. the scale and complexity issues associated with Enterprise Systems;
3. the concepts of integrated data and processing across different business processes;
4. the business and technological benefits of such integration;
5. the limitations and constraints that accompany the above benefits;
6. the differences in structure between enterprise scale and personal scale information systems.

At the completion of the unit students will have been exposed to attitudes, values and beliefs consistent with the following objectives:

1. to develop attitudes which enable the setting of reasonable expectations for ES performance

to acknowledge and value the perspectives of business;
2. IT and managerial users to maintain the highest ethical and professional standards in the evaluation, analysis, recommendation and implementation of integrated solutions.

At the completion of the unit students will have the skills to:

1. design appropriate workflow solutions for common business processes;
2. develop facility in the use of a mainstream process modelling and integration software product.

Assessment

2 hour lecture plus 2 hour tutorial and laboratory per week

Contact hours

One x 2hr lecture/week, one x 2hr tutorial and laboratory/week

Prerequisites

12 credit points of second year FIT units completed or simultaneously enrolled

Prohibitions

IMS5052