Information System
Course Objectives:
To introduce and apply the knowledge of computer based information systems. It also provides the concept to the student in designing and setting up complex information system.
- Information system (3 hours)
- Classification and evolution of IS
- IS in functional area.
- Information system architecture
- Qualities of information systems
- Managing Information System resources
- Balanced Scorecard – case studies
- Control, Audit and Security of Information systemn (5 hours)
- Control of information system
- Audit of information system
- Security of information system
- Consumer layered security strategy
- Enterprise layered security strategy
- Extended validation and SSL certificates
- Remote access authentication
- Content control and policy based encryption
- Example of security in e-commerce transaction
- Enterprise Management Systems (4 hours)
- Enterprise management systems (EMS)
- Enterprise Software: ERP/SCM/CRM
- Information Management and Technology of Enterprise Software
- Role of IS and IT in Enterprise Management
- Enterprise engineering, Electronic organism, Loose integration vs. full integration, Process alignment, Frame work to manage integrated change, future trends.
- Decision support and Intelligent systems (7 hours)
- DSS, operations research models
- Group decision support systems
- Enterprise and executive decision support systems
- Knowledge Management, Knowledge based Expert system
- AI, Neural Networks, Virtual reality, Intelligent Agents
- Data mining, Data ware Housing, OLAP, OLTP
- Anomaly and fraud detection
- Planning for IS (3 hours)
- Strategic information system
- Tactical information system
- Operational information systems
- Implementations of Information Systems (7 hours)
- Change Management
- Critical Success Factors
- Next generation Balanced scorecard
- Web based information system and navigation (8 hours)
- The structure of the web
- Link Analysis
- Searching the web
- Navigating the web
- Web uses mining
- Collaborative filtering
- Recommender systems
- Collective intelligence
- Scalable and Emerging Information System techniques (8 hours)
- Techniques for voluminous data
- Cloud computing technologies and their types
- MapReduce and Hadoop systems
- Data management in the cloud
- Information retrieval in the cloud
- Link analysis in cloud setup
- Case studies of voluminous data environment
Practicals:
The practical exercise shall include following three types of projects on designing of information system
- E-commerce based information system for online transaction processing
- web uses mining or collaborative filtering based processing system
- scalable and emerging information system
- Balanced scorecard, Strategy Map
References:
- Information Systems Today Leonard Jessup and Joseph Valacich, Prentice hall, 2007
- Managing With Information System, J.Kanter, PHI, Latest edition
- An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation, M. Levene, Pearson Education,
- Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce, Jimmy Lin and Chris Dyer, Morgan and Claypool, 2010.
- The Cloud at Your Service, Jothy Rosenberg and Arthur Mateos, Manning, 2010
- Balanced scorecard: Robert S. Kaplan,David P. Norton
- Strategy Maps : Converting intangible assets into tangible outcomes,Robert S. Kaplan,David P. Norton
- Strategy Focused organization : Robert S. Kaplan,David P. Norton
Evaluation Scheme:
The question will cover all the chapters of the syllabus. The evaluation scheme will be as indicated in the table below:
Chapters |
Hours |
Marks Distribution* |
1 |
4 |
8 |
2 |
8 |
14 |
3 |
4 |
8 |
4 |
7 |
12 |
5 |
3 |
5 |
6 |
3 |
5 |
7 |
8 |
14 |
8 |
8 |
14 |
Total |
45 |
80 |
*Note: There may be minor deviation in marks distribution.
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