INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Systems engineer
INFORMATION SYSTEMS

In the academic field

DIFFERENT NAMES FOR THE
ACADEMIC FIELD

Management Information Systems

Information systems

Computer systems

Information management

Information Systems Management

Business Information Systems

 CAPABILITIES OF GRADUATES OF
INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Improvement of the processes of the organization.

Exploitation of opportunities that open technological innovations.

Understand and address information requirements.

Management company architecture design.

Identification and evaluation of solutions and supply alternatives.

Secure data and infrastructure.

Understanding, management and control of risks.

 SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE

Identification and
Design and The management of
design of
The analysis of implementation of operations in progress
opportunities for IT
compensations information systems information
improvement of the
solutions technology
organization
 BASIC KNOWLEDGE

Leadership
and
collaboratio
n

Mathematical
Communication
foundations

Analytical and
critical Negotiation
thinking
 COURSE SPECIFICATIONS
Basic courses
• Fundamentals of information systems
• Data and information management
• Business architecture
• Project management
• Analysis and design of systems
• Strategy, management and acquisition
Optional courses
• Applications development
• Business process management
• Enterprise systems
• TI audit and controls
• IT security and risk management
INFORMATION SYSTEMS

In software development
 DEFINITION

Information system is understood as the set of technologies,

processes, business applications and software available to
people within an organization
 BASIC COMPONENTS

The hardware,
physical equipment
used to process and
store data.

The people who The software and the

develop, maintain and procedures used to
use the system. transform and extract
information.

The network that

allows sharing The data that represent
resources between the activities of the
computers and company.
devices.
 ACTIVIDADES

• Capture or collect raw data both within the

Recopilation organization and its external environment.

Storage • Save in a structured way the information collected.

Process • Convert that data entry in a more meaningful way.

• Transfers processed information to the people that

Distribution will use it.
 LIFECYCLE

Knowledge of the organization

Determine the needs

Diagnostic

System design

Identification of problems and opportunities

implementation

Mantenimiento

Propuesta
 TYPES OF APPLICATION

From a business point of view

The first classification is based on the hierarchy of an organization and was

called the pyramid model.

Strategic information systems

It can be considered as the use of information technology to support or
shape the competitive strategy of the organization, its plan to increase or
maintain the competitive advantage or to reduce the advantage of its
competitors.
 TYPES OF APPLICATION

Another classification, according to the

application environment
• Decision-making environment
• Transactional environment

Strategic information systems

• Although most information systems operate with the

knowledge of the agents on which information is gathered
(publicly known systems), the rise of electronic
communications has made secret espionage systems
proliferate.