Enterprise Technologies and Architectures

Aims and objectives

• Demonstrate an understanding of organisational management and fundamental business strategies
• Demonstrate problem solving skills and initiatives towards identifying a solution to a problem not necessarily familiar to you
• Understand the need to source and adapt new technologies, not necessarily familiar to you, to address a problem in a domain, possible not previously experienced
• Demonstrate an understanding of the “Patent” process and the format of formulating an appropriate Patent application
• Demonstrate knowledge of fundamental computer hardware and apply that knowledge to produce hardware configuration specifications for a business context
• Demonstrate knowledge of various desktop and server operating systems and be able to explain the fundamental differences between them
• Understand fundamental networking principles and design and apply that knowledge to produce a network design model for a simple business problem
• Understand basic Work Flow Modelling techniques, including UML diagrams, specifically System Sequence Diagrams and Class Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Use Case Diagrams, and demonstrate their use in the problem identification phase of the project
• Demonstrate the ability to work and contribute in a group
• Understand and demonstrate the need for good management and organisation in approaching a problem

Teaching methods

Assessment

Content

• Grades of hardware and operating systems
• Single and multiple CPU and core architectures
• Data communication protocols, routers, gateways, security and firewalls
• Data organisation and management systems
• Web servers and server loads
• Modelling of business organisations/ Organisational Structures
• Business applications/ resource planning systems
• Supply chain management/ value chain management