Enterprise Systems

INSY 4103 – Course Guide

Tibebe B.
? What is your understanding about Enterprise
Systems?
 ● Course objectives
● Topics (Course content)
Outline ● Teaching methodology
● Assessment methods
● Reference
 ● Students will:
● Understand the concepts related to Enterprise and the
associated processes, technological systems and architecture
● Understand the nature and development process of silo systems
● Understand enterprise systems (integrated systems or ERP),
Objectives as well as the evolution, benefits and challenges of such
systems
● Understand the processes and techniques in the selection,
acquisition and implementation of enterprise systems
● Acquire hands-on experience through performing various class
exercises
 ● Preliminaries
● Feeling like IS Professional
● What you learned so far
● Applying course works in the real world (Views)
● Senior projects as a case
● Expectation from this course
● Class exercise 1
● Chapter 1 : Introduction
Topics ● Enterprise/organizational mindset
● Business, business process, typical functional units, examples
● IS (as a field of study, technology, and process)
● As discipline, as profession,
● Definitions
● Quality information and values
● Enterprise architecture (at a model level)
● TOGAF as an example
● Class exercise 2
 ● Chapter 2 : Functional Departments and Silo systems
● Functional Departments (HR, Finance, Purchasing,
Supply …)
● Examples (business process)
● Silo systems development process (Analysis, design,
Implementation (previous class examples and the
Cont…. current industrial projects)
● Silo systems architecture
● Gaps/challenges in implementing and using silo
systems
● Class exercise 3
 ● Chapter 3: Systems integration and enterprise systems
architecture
● Legacy systems
● Integration of System
● ERP
● Conceptual foundation
cont… ● Benefits of ERP
● Potential Challenges while implementing ERP
● Evolution of ERP (ERP,I, II, Enhanced, Basics of SCM
and CRM)
● Architecture
● Class exercise 4
 ● Chapter 4: ERP project processes
● ERP development life cycle (if in-house or at the vendor
premise)
● ERP Acquisition and Implementation
● Requirements study (techniques, tools, models)
Cont… ● Inviting vendors to participate (via bids, short listing, etc.)
● Software and Vendor selection
● Implementation and Go-Live (customization, configuration,
testing, training, deploying and Go-Live)
● Change management
● Post implementation issues
 ● Chapter 5: ERP project management
● Project initiation and planning
● Project Team organization
Topics cont… ● Project leadership
● Critical Success Factors
● Managing Scope Creep
 ● Chapter 6 : ES Governance
● Who should be involved and How
Topics cont… ● How should it be managed
● Best practice and potential challenges
 ● Lecture
● Course work/assignment
● Discuss and relate what students did so far
Teaching ● Senior project as a case

Methodology ● Final exam

● Attendance/participation
● In class tasks
 ● Course work 1: Exploration and reporting of 3 ERP solutions (15
%)
● Group work (5 – 6 students)
● In terms of number of modules, delivery mode, technical
requirement , cost of ownership, vender details ….
comparisons
● Submission in document format (5 to 10 pages)
● Presentation- (15-20 slides) (two presenters one to be picked
Assessments randomly while the other is to be selected by the team)
● Course work 2: In class tasks (15 %+5%-20)
● Various tasks (around 3 tasks)
● Attendance
● Mid exam (20%) – (End of Lecture 02)
● Final exam (45 %)- all chapters
● Multiple choice, fill in the blanks and cases
 ● Motiwalla, Luvai F. & Jeffrey Thompson. Enterprise
Reference systems for management. Latest ed. Upper Saddle River:
Pearson Prentice Hall
● Vivek Kale. 2019- Enterprise Process Management
Systems: Engineering Process-Centric Enterprise
Systems
Thank You