Business Informatics 1 (WI1)
1. Semester
5 ECTS | 4 SWS
Written Exam 90 Minutes (K90)
Understand how companies use digital systems: You will learn the fundamentals of software, databases, and data models, as well as how business processes are represented and optimized. The course focuses on the use of enterprise software to support functions such as procurement, sales, and human resources, as well as the modeling and analysis of these processes. Particular emphasis is placed on different types of business models used within organizations. You will learn how to interpret these models and how to create simple models yourself.
Contents
- Business Informatics: definition, areas, goals, importance and classification of innovations
- Software: definition, categorization
- Business Applications: definition, benefits, categorization, types of business applications, areas of application, main modules, industry-specific business applications, data types, user groups
- Modelling: motivation, goals, methods, model characteristics, modelling process, different types of models
- Data Management: definition, data bases, data modelling, normalization, entity relationship diagrams, SQL
- Process Management: organization, business processes, process modelling, event-driven process chains, Aris concept, process optimization
- Exercises in enterprise modelling with the Enterprise Online Guide (EOG): case studies with model integration, materials management, sales and distribution an human capital management
- Innovative developments in Business Informatics, e. g. Artificial Intelligence in Business Applications
Competencies
Students are able to
- get to know and evaluate the importance of business informatics as success factor in business
- know the basic business vocabulary in business informatics and use it correctly
- understand the field of business informatics and get perspectives for later professional fields
- know modeling als key competence in business informatics and name essential modeling techniques
- create and interpret simle models
- classify technological innovations and evaluate their benefit
Literature
- G. Roth-Dietrich, Grundlagen und Methoden der Wirtschaftsinformatik – Eine anwendungsorientierte Einführung. Hamburg, Germany: Books on Demand, 2018.
- G. Roth-Dietrich, “Datenmanagement für die Projektorganisation bei der Informasoft Unternehmensberatung GmbH,” in Praxis der Unternehmensführung: Fallstudien und Firmenbeispiele, R. Dillerup and R. Stoi, Eds., Munich, Germany: Vahlen, 2008.
- G. Roth-Dietrich, “Prozessmanagement und Electronic Business: Elektronische Beschaffung bei der Informasoft Unternehmensberatung GmbH,” in Praxis der Unternehmensführung: Fallstudien und Firmenbeispiele, R. Dillerup and R. Stoi, Eds., Munich, Germany: Vahlen, 2008.
Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Gabriele Roth-Dietrich
- Prof. Dr. Michael Gröschel
Recommended Previous Knowledge
Module Details
| Semester |
1 |
| Lecture Language |
German |
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Frequency
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Winter Term
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| Credit Points (ECTS)
|
5 |
| Course Coordinator |
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Roth-Dietrich |
| Duration |
1 Semester |
|
Course Achievement
|
None |
|
Prerequisite for exam
|
Compulsory Assignment (PU) |
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Exam
|
Written Exam 90 Minutes (K90) |
Weekly Hours (SWS)
| Lecture |
2 SWS |
| Lab |
2 SWS |
| Sum |
4 SWS |
Work Load
| Lecture |
30 h |
| Lab |
30 h |
| Self Study |
60 h |
| Assignments |
30 h |
| Sum |
150 h |
