Last modified: 20 Jan 2023 16:02
This course provides insight into the business reasons for large software systems such as loyalty card systems, backend systems integrating firms and their suppliers and larges systems that integrate payroll, finance and operational parts of a business. You also learn the entrepreneurial aspects of business during the practical sessions where you explore and develop your own business application idea using service design and lean startup approaches centred around customer development, which you will find useful in any future work. This course is open to anyone across the university and requires no programming experience.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 3 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course aims to provide a modern introduction to business computing, centred on the concept of an enterprise data model, as well as the benefits of combining, lean, agile and service design approaches to business product development. Students will learn how to develop enterprise data models, and will gain practical skills in using service design approaches to rapidly design business products as part of the practical work in the course where teams of students will develop start up ideas suitable for web and mobile applications. Supporting infrastructure within the enterprise architecture will be introduced, including networking concepts.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
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There are no assessments for this course.
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| Conceptual | Understand | Understanding of supporting infrastructure within the enterprise architecture, including networking concepts. |
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