WHAT IS AN EXCHANGE STUDY PACKAGE?Exchange Study Packages are balanced, coherent, well-structured, and self-contained sets of courses at a final Bachelor year academic level. Choosing one of these packages means you do not have to worry about selecting the right courses or managing your calendar to fit all of your classes. Simply apply for a package that suits your academic background and interest to be ensured of a well-balanced exchange programme, often consisting of 30 EC. These packages are generally accessible to students who have successfully completed the first two years of their Bachelor programme.

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ANDINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

All topics included in the module reveal yet another aspect

related to the usage of IT in organizations. Another core idea

behind this module is that students learn how to design

information systems that provide solutions for a business

problem.

Learning Goals1. Students can design a simple data base, populate it

with data and query it in order to retrieve data. Thesegoals are important since the core of any enterpriseinformation system is the database.

2. Students can analyze information generated byinformation systems, and stored in data warehouses,

and can use it to monitor and evaluate businessperformance and determine/shape an organization’sbusiness strategy (i.e., the so-called businessintelligence).

3. Students can design and develop/implement enterpriseinformation systems, which facilitate, support and/orautomate the execution and analysis/monitoring ofbusiness processes.

ContentThis module lies at the border between Business and IT.More exactly, all topics included in the module revealyet another aspect related to the usage of IT inorganizations. Another core idea behind this module isthat students learn how to design information systemsthat provide solutions for a business problem. To thisend, the idea we promote is that systems must bedesigned to serve the business and its needs, asopposed to the idea that organizations must useinformation systems.

To summarize, for the IEM program this is the IT modu­

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le of the program. This is where students learn whatinformation systems are and how they can be designedand used to increase business performance and inparticular operational process performance. Here theyhear for the first time about specific technologies (e.g.,BI, business process automation, data mining, orDBMS), specification languages, how systems “aremade” and what are they good for. They learn how tobuild a data base, a web application and a businessintelligence dashboard. They learn how to analyse abusiness problem and look for possible solutions in IT.

The BIIT module aims to cover the following topics:• Data bases: Relational databases, SQL, ER model;Foreign key; primary key, understanding the databasedesign process• Business Intelligence & Business Analytics:Introduction, definition, relation with automateddecision support systems, BI architectures, evolution ofBI, Major BI vendors & BI implementation• Data warehousing: data marts, DW architectures,ETL, DW design, multidimensional modelling, OLAP,slice, dice, etc., DW implementation (do’s & don’ts)• Business performance management: Performancemonitoring, Performance measurement, BalanceScorecard and performance, e.g. performance ofprocesses (the process perspective in BSC), Lean, SixSigma• Data mining: process, techniques, tools• Business intelligence tools (Tableau, Weka)• Text mining, Web mining, Social media, Big data andother trends process, techniques, tools• Business process modelling: Motivation anddefinitions• Business process modelling notation (BPMN) andother modelling languages• Business process lifecycle (Total Quality Management(Six Sigma, Lean), Business process redesign)• Workflow/process patterns• Workflow systems and workflow analysis, Activitydiagrams, petri nets• Process-aware information systems

• Process choreographies and orchestrations• Enterprise architecture: Motivation and definitions,modelling foundation, enterprise architectureframework and lifecycle (Zachman. TOGAF, etc.)

Course Code201300108

SemesterSpring, Block 3

The idea we promote is thatsystems must be designed to

serve the business and itsneeds, as opposed to the ideathat organizations must use

information systems.

To be paid at home institution.

ADMISSION CRITERIAMathematics - Probability Theory

STUDY LOAD15 EC

STARTSpring Semester

For more information about this Exchange StudyPackage, contact the Departmental ExchangeCoordinator of the Faculty of Behavioural,Management and Social Sciences.utwente.nl/go/exchange-coordinators