This unit is a third year component of the Information Systems major in the BITS. This unit will give students an understanding of the inter-relationship of the systems in a portfolio of information systems that are needed to support a large organization. It will examine the forms and mechanisms of business process integration and of data integration between the Enterprise System and other business information systems and databases. The unit will introduce the issues of integration types associated with the different software and database technologies. The role of integration middleware software in the specification of business process workflows is addressed in both the homogenous environments of an ERP package and heterogenous environments involving ERP packages, legacy systems and office systems.

FIT3097 Enterprise Systems is a new unit for offer from 2007.

Enterprise scale software systems are used extensively by organisations in which graduates are likely to find employment. Enterprise Integration will acquaint students with the types and mechanisms of integration that they are likely to encounter in their professional practice.

A core unit of the Information Systems specialisation in the BITS.

A significant career pathway for IS major students is into global, national and local companies, and substantial government departments. Information systems support for the business process is the focus of IT activity in such organisations. Designing and supporting business process integration through applications and databases linked by middleware software is a significant concern for the professional systems analyst.

Enterprise Integration has the overall objective of preparing IS major students for professional practice as systems analysts in corporate environments that implement complex workflow solutions for day to day business processes. The principal objective is to enable the students to hold informed discussions with both the business users and the software implementers about the software tools available to technically deliver the required business functionality.

Cognitive Domain Objectives At the completion of the unit students will have knowledge of:

• the evolution and current application of Enterprise Systems
• the scale and complexity issues associated with Enterprise Systems

and have an understanding of:

• the concepts of integrated data and processing across different business processes
• the business and technological benefits of such integration
• the limitations and constraints that accompany the above benfits
• the differences in structure between enterprise scale and personal scale information systems

Affective Domain Objectives.

At the completion of the unit the student will have had the opportunity to develop appreciations of:

the business users' requirements for particular information flows and processes in the conduct of normal business activities;

the IT professionals' technological imperitives and constraints in meeting user requirements;

organisational cultures and value judgements that guide the negotiation of trade-offs between the two positions above.

Psychomotor Domain Objectives.

At the completion of the unit students will be able to:

• design appropriate workflow solutions for common business processes
• document and present appropriate solutions to integration requirements in a way that is understood by user and IT communities in their workplace.

Social Domain Objectives.

At the completion of the unit the student will have had the opportunity to lead and/or engage in team developed solutions to integration problems.

This unit will give students an understanding of the portfolio of information systems needed to support a large organization and identify Enterprise System (ERP) scale packages as the principal business information system in large organisations. It will examine 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 will introduce students to the concepts of workflow and to selected software tools for process modelling, workflow design and to the different types of integration middleware software and technologies that enables business process integration. ASCED: 020305

This unit will give students an understanding of the portfolio of information systems needed to support a large organization and identify Enterprise System (ERP) scale packages as the principal business information system in large organisations. It will examine 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 will introduce students to the concepts of workflow and to selected software tools for process modelling, workflow design and to the different types of integration middleware software that enables business process integration.

Britton & Bye (2004) IT Architectures and Middleware. 2e. Addison-Wesley.

O'Rourke, Fishman & Selkow (2003) Enterprise Architecture: Using the Zachman Framework. Thomson-Course Technology.

Hohpe & Woolf (2004) Enterprise Integration Patterns. Addison-Wesley.

On campus.

2 hour lecture plus 2 hours laboratory exercise and tutorial discussions per week.

Knowledge and understanding objectives are achieved mainly through lectures and tutorial and laboratory exercises.

Attitudes and beliefs objectives are achieved mainly through tutorial exercises and assignment work.

Practical skills objectives are achieved mainly through laboratory exercises and assignment work.

Relationships, communication and team work objectives are achieved mainly through tutorial and laboratory exercises and assignment work.

Examination 60% and practical assignments 40%.

Knowledge and understanding objectives are assessed mainly through the examination.

Attitudes, values and belief objectives are assessed mainly through the examination and assignment work.

Practical skills objectives are assessed mainly through assignment work.

Relationships, communication and team work objectives are assessed mainly through assignment work.

Approximately 12 hours per week apportioned as 4 hours contact time in lectures and tutorials or laboratory sessions, 4 hours preparation for lectures and practical sessions and 4 hours research, assignment preparation and revision for examination.

Lecture theatre with electronic display facilities and internet connection.

Combination of tutorial room and PC laboratory, or Studio space.

Combination of tutorial room and PC laboratory, or Studio space.

One lecturer, and one tutor per tutorial group of 16 to 20 students.

Process modelling software and middleware software to be advised.

Reserve Collection copies of the required text books at the Library's standard rate of copies for cohort size.

Access to indexed databases of Information Systems and Information Technology peer-reviewed journal articles such as Business Source Premier, ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore.

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