inf653 - ERP Technologies (Complete module description)

No participant requirement

Learning objectives
Generation of understandings into the working approaches and tasks of ERP systems
Examing components of ERP systems
Generating knowledge about important aspects of the operation processes of ERP systems, such as data storage and processing, user management, and system maintenance.
Professional competence

• The students:
• describe ERP systems in compliance with functions and technologies
• identify state-of-the-art and future architectures of ERP systems
• discuss the usage of core technologies (also in practical case studies, for example with SAP NetWeaver)

Methodological competence

• The students:
• categorize fundamental technologies in combination with other enterprise-wide information systems
• apply the presented methods in practical contexts

Social Competence
The students:

• construct solutions to given problems in groups
• present solutions to computing science problems before groups

Self-competence
The students:

• recognize the limit of their capacity in implementing and customizing of business application systems

The module provides the following content:

• Overview of the components of ERP systems and their functionality and administration
• In-depth analysis of ERP system architecture under consideration of surface structures and user
• management in ERP systems, with focus on of data storage, particularly the used data models and database structures, backup and recovery strategies
• Deployment of ERP applications in form of application service providing, including the technical characteristics of this business model, especially Special Administration, delimitation and monitoring tasks for systems, which at the same time be provided several customers
• Lecture will be acccompanied by SAP case studies.

• Gronau (2004): Enterprise Resource Planning und Supply Chain Management, Oldenbourg, München
• Rautenstrauch, Schulze (2003): Informatikfür Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Wirtschaftsinformatiker, Springer, Heidelberg
• Sumner (2005): Enterprise Resource Planning, Prentice Hall

End of lecture period

Portfolio or practical exercises and written exam