Subject Description

You will learn how to recognise and explain business information systems with regard to type, function, purpose, and the frameworks within which these systems are used. Topics include computing fundamentals such as: computer hardware and software; computers and society; use of business application packages - spreadsheets, word processing, database, graphics; organisational information systems; information systems development and acquisition; data and knowledge management; electronic commerce, internets, extranets; networking; enterprise-wide information systems; the internet and information systems security; privacy, ethics and computer crime.