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MSc/PgDip/PgCert
Enterprise Computing

Location
Southwark

Duration
1 year (full-time)
2 years (part-time)
Start date

September

Number of places
40 places (maximum)

Simple timetable information
Full-time: typically 2 full days per week
Part-time: typically 1 full day per week

How to apply
Direct to LSBU

LSBU code
Full-time: 3340
Part-time: 3345

Course Contact
George Ubakanma
george.ubakanma@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 7403

Typical background of applicant

– IT-based honours degree (2:2, with some OO content) graduate from a UK or international university, or

– Mature applicants, minimum three years working in appropriate IT related environments.

Course Units

– Database Systems

– Model Driven Systems Development

– Perspective of Project Management

– Object Architectures for Enterprise Systems

– Research Methods

– Software Engineering Design Workshop

– Service Oriented Architectures

– Data Warehousing and Data Mining

– Dissertation


Course description

This course focuses on the development of enterprise information systems, employing current tools/techniques for achieving enterprise wide systems integration including J2EE, ERP and SOA. The skills and experience gained will be particularly attractive to organisations/ institutions seeking to integrate their Enterprise-Wide Applications or to automate Business to Business (B2B) relationships with industrial/commercial partners. It is anticipated that graduates of the course will be able to play an effective part in bridging the cultural gap between the business and IT communities by adopting an approach based on systems integration, employing reusable services/components.

On course completion, you will:

– Fully appreciate the impact of enterprise information systems development on the infrastructure of today’s business and IT environments

– Understand the nature and role of component-based architectures and modelling concepts in information engineering and be able to use its philosophy and tools in a wide range of contexts

– Identify and formulate informationrelated problems and deliver enterprise information system components using a component-based approach

– Undertake relevant research in this field.

Career opportunities

Employment prospects are excellent. Graduates enter positions such as: Information Architects, Business Intelligence Specialists; Database Administrators; Business Systems Analysts/Developers. The course provides a direct path to Doctorate (PhD) level research within the faculty.

Course Units in Profile

Database Systems: Develops skills using the following types of database-related technology: relational, object-relational, XML and web databases. Data Warehousing and Data Mining: Explores how business intelligence is developed using data warehousing and data mining techniques to unify enterprise-wide data resources. Model-Driven Systems: Explores the use of object-oriented modelling methodologies, design patterns, and business objects to analyse and specify business systems requirements. Object Architectures for Enterprise Systems: Covers the design/implementation of server-side development in enterprise systems Perspectives of Project Management: Requires students to work in teams developing appropriate EIS solutions within given constraints. Research Methods: Prepares students for the dissertation. Service Oriented Architectures and Web Services: Developing SOA, intra-business architectures and Business-to-Business (B2B) integration. Software Engineering Design Workshop: Examines applied integration of te hnologies for bespoke problem domains within context of ongoing research. Dissertation: A major research and development project resulting in the production of a 10,000 word dissertation. Projects can be industrybased or based internally within one of the Faculty research centres.