Clemens Martin PhD

Expected learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Define, Describe and Explain the fundamentals of Business Informatics and Business Information Systems, Hardware and Internet.
- Define, Describe, Explain and Use the essential functionalities and features of Windows, Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint.
- Define, Explain and Apply the features and concept of lifeware, software and hardware in business informatics.
- Use applications, models, tools and functions in business informatics and Solve tasks and simple problems in spreadsheet interface.

Course content
- introduction to the terms (business) Informatics and information technology
- information systems - basic terms and concepts.
- information system and business system
- business modeling in the Excel spreadsheet interface
- lifeware. Users and professional IT professionals. IT professions, CIO today and throughout history
- computer systems. Computer hardware. Internet, telecommunications, computer networks,
mobile computing
- system and development software
- application software and business applications
- innovative information systems. Computer products and IT solutions
- analytical modeling in the spreadsheet interface. Analytical models in business
- diagrams in computer modeling and programming. Block diagrams, logic circuit diagrams,
entity-relationship diagram
object-relationship, object diagram Relational data models and object-oriented database.
- Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in business programming in Excel
- introduction to the concepts of digital technology and digital transformation
- basic knowledge of primary and secondary digital technologies