CSC208Management Information System (MIS)

Siti Nurbaya IsmailFaculty of Computer Science & Mathematics,

Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Kedah| sitinurbaya@kedah.uitm.edu.my |

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Course Information

Code: CSC208Course:

Management Information System (MIS)

Contact Hour: 4

Course Status: Non

Core

Credit Unit: 3

Prerequisites: None

Course Contents

Meta Introduction

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This course is the study of information systems focusing on their use in business and management.

This course provides the students with the leading edge perspectives on the business and management uses of information systems. Businesses invest in information systems because they create business value. The major system investments being made today are enterprise applications that integrate information across the enterprise and create powerful new links to customers and suppliers.

Course Goals

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Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: Learn how managers develop, design, and implement

major systems to create new resources of value for the business.

Analyse business problems, develop systems solutions, and manage business systems in the digital firm.

Apply problem-solving skills to an ongoing real business scenario.

Identify the four enterprise applications: supply chain management, customer relationship management, enterprise systems, and knowledge management as the system pillars of the digital firm.

Textbook

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Information Systems Creating Business Valueby

Mark W. Huber, Craig A. Piercy & Patrick G. McKeown :

John Wiley & Sons (2007)

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Course Information

Assessment: 100%

Final Exam: 60%

Continuous Assessment

Tests: T1 T2

Quizzes: 5%

Project:20%15%

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Course Description

Lab Session Database Management System(DBMS) Microsoft Access 2007

Tables

• Holds data. Access uses tables to display the raw data in records (rows) and fields (columns).

Forms

• To display, enter, edit, and print formatted data one record at a time.

Reports

• Is a design for printed data. Data can be summarize using the report function or retrieve specific information to display.

Queries

• Question that can be ask about the data within the database.

Project

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Introduction To meet the course requirements, students are

required to complete ONE project on Microsoft Access before end of the semester.

It is a group project where a team will be responsible to establish a database of tables and several reports necessary for managerial and operational purposes of one business process.

All team is required to give reports on the progress of activities as specified in the schedule.

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Objectives1. To expose students in organizing collaborative efforts to

achieve specific goals.2. To expose students the roles of IT and technical people in

any system development project.3. To understand limitations and constraints about a project

development, particularly concerning costs, time, supports, information technologies, creativity, and others.

4. To know important technical concepts that are considered necessary to facilitate communications with technical people, and ease the development process.

5. To help students improving their skills in organizing work activities and resources, and presentation.

Project

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Decription ONE project. Each team is made up of 3 to 4 members. What you need to do is:

Design an application that maintains database for a business.

Assuming that your group runs a retail business (e.g. selling automotive e.g. car/motorcycle, raw seafood/vegetables, clothes etc.)

With the help of DBMS tool e.g. MS Access, MySQL etc, you can efficiently manage your business profits.

Project

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Specification of the system: Data-entry form At least 3 tables (e.g. main item, customer, staff etc.) Main Menu (and/of sub-menu) Reporting (at least one report e.g. cash sales for a

day/week/month, list of buyers etc.) Queries

Marks will be based on the workability of the system, the user interface and report produced (technical and aesthetical values)

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You need to provide a documentation on your work that explains about your application

Submission of project:1. Submit soft copy along the hard copy2. Schedule of presentation will be determined

once all groups have been established Report must be submitted during

presentation. Late submission will NOT be entertained.

Civility in the Classroom

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Students are expected to assist in maintaining a classroom environment which is conducive to learning.

In order to assure that all students have an opportunity to gain from time spent in class, unless otherwise approved by the instructor, students are prohibited from using cellular phones or beepers, eating or drinking in class, making offensive remarks, reading newspapers, sleeping or engaging in any other form of distraction.

Inappropriate behavior in the classroom shall result in, minimally, a request to behave his/herself.