IS 3520 - Enterprise Systems

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Business Majors: Sophomore GPA Requirement and IS 3280; Non-business Majors: IS 3280 and permission of Coles College.
Modern information systems contain many vendor-supplied components that must be selected, integrated, tested, and installed. This course analyzes current practices in systems integration, including business intelligence, enterprise application integration (EAI), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and data integration. Further, this course addresses the skills required to develop system Requests for Proposals (RFPs), evaluation and management of contracts and contractors, testing methods, installation planning and outsourcing.