• Spring 2017 - Friday, 08:00-11:00 and 11:00-14:00.
  
• Syllabus.

During the course the following topics will be taught:

• Organization and information
• The business environment of the organization
• Challenges of information systems
  
• Information systems in the organization and decision making process
  
• Types of information systems
  
• Data (data warehousing and data mining)
  
• Life cycle of information systems
  
• Development of information systems
  
• MAFTHEACH procedure
  
• Functional requirements of information systems
  
• ERP systems
  
• Business Warehouse
  

The course presentation can be downloaded from the following link: PDF

Part of the course is the implementation of laboratory exercises on SAP software. The following exercises should be prepared and submitted in the course. 

•  Labs location: Building 605, room 201.
•  Exercise 1, Explanations for exercise 1, SPA presentation for exercise 1.
•  Exercise 2, Explanations for exercise 2, SPA presentation for exercise 2.
•  Exercise 3, Explanations for exercise 3, SPA presentation for exercise 3.
•  Exercise 4, Explanations for exercise 4, SPA presentation for exercise 4.
•  Exercise 5, Explanations for exercise 5, SPA presentation for exercise 5.
•  Exercise 6, Explanations for exercise 6, SPA presentation for exercise 6.

Bar-Ilan login instructions: The work at SAP is done on Bar-Ilan computers, using software called Remote Desktop. In order to log on to Bar-Ilan's computer, the software should be run as follows: In the Start menu, go to Programs, choose Accessories and choose Remote Desktop. In the window that opens, enter 132.70.55.99 and then make a login. The remote computer window opens. You are required to enter a user name and password to log in. The username and password are the same. You can choose user names from the following names: temp1 to temp20. Note that if you select a user name that someone is using at the same time, your logon with the same name will cause the user to exit the remote desktop. 

 The scores for the exercises will be published below.

The course includes a number of articles which are mandatory articles that the student must read independently. The material appearing in the articles will be included in the exam. 

 The articles are: 

• Process mapping in successful ERP implementations
  
• Creating ERP Documentation for End Users

Exam date: Details will be published later.

• Summaries of course material from previous years, from the non-official site to logistics
• Jacobs F. R. and Weston Jr. F. C., Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) - A Brife History, Journal of Operation Managment, 2007, Vol. 25, 357-365.
• Fayyad U., Piatetsky-Shapiro G. and Smyth P., From Data Mining to Knowledge Discovery in Databases, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 1996.
  
• Manufacturing Resource Planning