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ISYS4258.01 Fall 2021 Systems Analysis and Design [Wyner]
This course offers students an opportunity to gain familiarity and fluency with a set of widely used techniques for the design and improvement of information systems. The course may be of value both to students who intend to pursue careers in system development and to those who will be customers or managers of system development projects. The course may also be of interest to those engaged in the design of business architecture, who may wish to avail themselves of design techniques developed for information systems. Central to the course is a semester long project in which students work in small teams to develop a set of requirements and a prototype for an information system which addresses business needs of an actual client. Through this project, students have an opportunity to apply the techniques learned in the course as well as to develop important project management and organizational skills.
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ISYS7720.01|.02 Fall 2021 Data Analytics 2: Management and Data Skills [Wyner]
Data has become an ever more powerful source of competitive advantage for modern enterprises. New technologies and business practices have led to an “orders of magnitude” change in the amount of data available for analysis, as well as to techniques, often referred to as "analytics" or "business intelligence," which are now available to derive meaning from that data. It is essential that managers develop a deep understanding of how data can be structured, captured, and queried in order to support operations, decision-making, and strategic insight. This course provides students with a deeper understanding of data (1) by exploring the methods by which data is modeled, databases are designed, and data is queried from those databases, and (2) by developing an understanding of how this capability can be integrated into an organization to obtain a competitive advantage. Topics include entity relationship diagramming, the relational database model, and in-depth coverage of SQL, as well as systems analysis and design techniques for developing analytics to support an organization’s strategy.