Information Systems II

Code:

EIG0025

Acronym:

SI II

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Informatics

Instance: 2009/2010 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Engineering and Industrial Management

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIEIG	67	Syllabus since 2006/2007	3	-	6	52	160

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

BACKGROUND
Information Systems (IS) are essential in supporting business process and operations. Many IS projects fail, so it necessary to understand the different aspects that affect IS implementation success. Most of current IS have web interfaces so it is important to know web programming languages and how to develop IS to the Internet.

SPECIFIC AIMS
Understand the role of Information Systems (IS) in organisations and the importance of meeting organisations’ strategy. Make decisions in IS mainly in the area of planning and IS management. Be able to develop IS for the Internet.

PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE
Computer programming, relational databases models and SQL.

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION
Scientific component:40%
Technological component:60%

LEARNING OUTCOMES
- understand the role of Information Systems (IS) in organisations and the importance of meeting organisations’ strategy;
- know the main business models of digital economy;
- understand how to make decisions in IS, mainly in the area of planning and IS management;
- explore IS concerning business analysis and knowledge management;
- broaden students’ knowledge in Database Management Systems, mainly in Unified Modeling Language (UML), relational model and SQL;
- endow students with skills to develop Web applications.

Program

Information Technologies (IT) and Information Systems (IS); Technological evolution; distributed processing; computer networks; The Internet- historical evolution, world wide web protocols, available services, safety, communications, research and access to information; mobility (computing and the Internet); The future of the Internet

IT/IS infrastructures and investments; evolution of IT/IS in organisations, Nolan’s model; the role and importance of IS; IS dimensions; Types of IS – Transaction Processing Systems (TPS), Management Information Systems (MIS), Decision-Support Systems (DSS) and Executive Support Systems (ESS); Information Systems in organisations; Technical, functional and socio-organisational aspects.

The evolution of Information Systems in organisations- Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) and Manufacturing Resource Planning II (MRP II); Integrated Systems ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning: implementation, advantages, disadvantages, successful and unsuccessful cases; IS and chain values: Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Supply Chain Management (SCM); data and information treatment and analysis (Online Analytical Processing, Data Warehouses, Datamining)

Electronic business and electronic commerce (e-Business and e-Commerce); models of business and digital economy; electronic commerce – Business to costumer (B2C), Business to Consumer (B2C) and Costumer to Costumer (C2C); modeling and business processes (BSP, Swim Lane, IDEF, Unified Modeling language); Information architecture; information systems planning; stages information systems planning; strategic planning for information systems; decision making in IS (investment analysis, outsourcing/ internal development, etc)

Development of Web applications; Available tools (HTML, XHTML; CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL)

Mandatory literature

Laudon, Kenneth C.; Management information systems. ISBN: 0-13-101499-4
Welling, Luke; PHP e MySQL. ISBN: 978-85-352-1714-8

Complementary Bibliography

Beynon-Davies, Paul; Information systems. ISBN: 0-333-96390-3

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical-practical classes will be based on the presentation of the program of the course unit and on discussion of cases. Practical classes will take place at the computer room, where students will have the chance to do exercises using computer tools and where group assignments will be supervised.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	43,00
Problem solving	Teste	38,00		2010-06-09
Project group	Trabalho escrito	40,00		2010-06-04
Presentation	Trabalho escrito	3,00		2010-06-09
Test	Exame			2010-04-08
Test	Exame			2010-05-27
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
Study	Estudo autónomo	38	2010-06-09
	Total:	38,00

Eligibility for exams

To be admitted to exams, students have to attend 75% of the classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

0.30x (1st Test) + 0.30x (2nd Test) + 0,4x (Practical assignment)

Examinations or Special Assignments

Students have to do develop a web application using the platform PHP/MySQL.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students have to do/attend all assessment components.

Classification improvement

Students have to do/attend all assessment components.