Business Information System

Contact Information

Program Website:
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ph: 1-866-791-4898
fax: 1-540-231-2079

Program Director

Cindy Rubens, VTMIT Advisor

Summary

In today's business environment, ad-hoc approaches to information systems development are not sufficient. Modern approaches to the development of information systems, such as structured systems development, relational database development, and object-oriented systems development, are required. The Business Information Systems module prepares the student to become a business information systems developer using both structured and object-oriented systems development approaches. It also prepares the student to be able to design and develop business information systems that use a relational database. In this module, the student studies the strategies and techniques for dealing with the inherent complexity in the development of information systems. System development topics include coverage of (1) business systems planning; (2) fact-finding and requirements analysis techniques; (3) information systems process modeling; (4) logical and physical design; (4) user interface design; (5) introduction to database management systems and their use in business. Database topics covered include (1) data modeling, (2) normalization, (3) SQL, (4) transaction management and concurrency control, (5) physical data organization, (6) query optimization, (7) database administration (8) distributed databases, (9) data warehousing, (10) integrating databases with the web.

Delivery - Online

Courses

Course Number Course Title Credit hrs
ACIS 5504 Information Systems Design & Database Concepts 3
ACIS 5524 Advanced Data Management Systems 3
CS 5044 Object-Oriented Programming with Java 3
CS 5704 Software Engineering 3

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