This course aims to provide the students with an understanding on the use of computers and impact of technology on business. The students, through extensive hands-on experience with personal computers, will acquire the skill of using popular business software such as web languages, excel, visual basic etc. to manipulate data efficiently and accurately, to produce useful information for business applications. Eventually, the students are expected to develop the practical skills of using computers to handle business-related problems. The course includes discussion on basics of computer organization, system and application software’s, Web languages, spreadsheet programs, text editors, database management systems, and business graphics presentation packages.

This course provides a broad overview of the information systems including their resources and components. In addition the course discusses key managerial issues relating to implementation and application of information systems in an enterprise, understanding the impact of information systems/ information technology on

business functions; outlining strategies for corporate growth based on the effective use and management of information systems; analyzing business problems and developing the design for relevant information systems solutions; understanding how information systems can be used to transform business processes and provide more effective management control and decision systems.

Students will learn basics of electronic commerce, its building blocks, and the technologies used to place orders and process payments, legal issues and security protections offered for web-based institutions. The course will focus on the steps involved with web site creation, e-commerce implementation strategies, total cost of operations, and solutions available in building electronic sites and integration of data into existing business infrastructure. The course will also cover role of different players in the value chain, business-to-business, business-to-consumer and business to government models, and policies of major vendor for creating infrastructure to enable e-commerce.

This course covers the functions of data base management systems and their roles in a business organization; database models, entity relationship analysis, the relational database model, database languages, functional dependencies and normalization, various constraints, including logical and physical system constraints; security considerations, role of system user; and database design examples, data modeling techniques. The course will also cover physical database & DBMS implementation (storage and index structures, system catalog, query optimization, transaction processing, concurrency control, database recovery, security & authorization), and other related topics. 

This course covers the theory, methods, and techniques for solving organizational information processing problems using Enterprise Resource Planning software; and critical issues including software selection and configuration, project management, systems architecture, process analysis and design, organizational change, implementation and post- implementation issues of ERP projects.

The course will cover Electronic Business Frameworks, Internet and the WWW, advertisement and promotions on the web, infrastructure for electronic business, economics of electronic business, telecommunications infrastructure for e-business, client-server architecture of e-business systems, e-business services. The course will also cover various protocols and tools for developing e-business systems, management and creation of dynamic web content, Digital economy, Security of e-business systems: Cryptography and security of Internet information flows, host security, intranets and extranets, Electronic payment systems Trust and assurance in e-business, continuous online auditing, online financial reporting, E-business intelligence: Data mining, Web measurements and analysis, Electronic markets, Intelligent agents in electronic commerce transactions, and Extensible Markup Language, Virtual organizations and supply chain management.

Information systems and technology will be used as a framework for analyzing challenges and opportunities faced by individuals and organizations as they adapt themselves and their companies to better face the implications of competitive position in the midst of an information management explosion. Information systems are presented as an enabling technology supporting and reengineering effort of business processes within any organization. The course is reasonably self-contained and positioned for managers and professionals who must make IS related decisions, as opposed to technical users and application developers.

The course presents basic knowledge of communication systems as one of the great computer science fields. It covers systematic methods for classification of the present and future development of computer communication; changes in the infrastructure of information and communication systems, distributed systems, open systems, architectures as blueprint for open systems; communication networks for local area environments (within organizations) and for wide area environments (between organizations); and communication services in local and wide area networks. In addition course will introduce networking models, intranet and extranet and their use in E-business and E-commerce.

This course is as introduction to the concepts, principles, and skills of programming, including compliers, algorithms, and problem solving using a high level programming language such as C++ or Visual Basic. It is as intended for students with little or no programming experience. It emphasizes problem solving, algorithm development, and structured programming techniques with a series of projects to be developed through the course.

This course covers an introduction to software products, software processes – various models of software development life cycle, process visibility and deliverables; introduction to systems engineering and systems architecture; introduction to project management, requirements engineering – analysis, definition, and specification, prototyping; software design process, architectural and used interface design; verification and validation; software cost estimation; configuration management and version control, software maintenance; project teams and work breakdown structure; project planning and tracking; equality management and process improvement.

The course will cover study of systems analysis, design, and implementation within the context of an accounting database system. Additional topics include a treatment of the business computing environment, analysis of accounting databases with specific emphasis on the structure and use of accounting databases security and control of information, the accounting information system as a component of the management information system, and decision support and expert systems.

The course will cover basics of Knowledge Management (KM), Knowledge and Knowing, Knowledge Creation and knowledge sharing, Knowledge and its Relationship to Organizational Learning, Knowledge Management and Organizational Culture, Knowledge Gathering and Tacit Knowledge in Organizations, Technology Tools & Projects and Practices, Roles for Information and Communication Professionals in creation of knowledge and its dissemination in the organization, Ethical Issues, Pragmatics and Problems, Pragmatics of Knowledge Management, and Applications of information technologies to knowledge management.