Enterprise Applications & Architectures

This subject is not offered in 2013.

120 hours

Students who are enrolled in the two year 200 point Master of Information Systems must have completed 50 points of study to enrol in this subject.

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Integrating business applications across business functions and companies provides large benefits to organizations. The first phase of this subject concentrates on business processes and enterprise applications including ERP systems. The relationships and flows between ERP and other e-business applications and models, such as customer relationship management systems, e-procurement, supply chain management systems, e-markets, portals, and applications service providers, are established. The second phase emphasizes how these applications can be integrated into an organisation's IT infrastructure. Topics include solution architectures, strategies to deal with legacy applications, and integration versus migration tradeoffs.

Upon completion of this subject students should be able to:

• Apply the concepts of enterprise architecture
• Develop a holistic business / technology approach to the integration of business applications
• Apply qualitative methods to the business process impact of business applications

• A group 2500 word assignment, due in week 9 (50%)
• 2-hour examination held in the examination period (50%)

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This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

Students should develop an understanding of ERP applications, their impact on business processes and information systems and the application of different architecture frameworks and tools to ERP integration projects.