1. CIT341 – Foundations of Enterprise Information Systems Dr. Catherine Dwyer Fall 2011

2. Agenda  Class introductions  Overview of Syllabus and Class Schedule  What are Enterprise Systems?

3. 3 Catherine Dwyer Associate Professor Seidenberg School, Department of Information Technology  Full time since Fall 2000  Other classes taught: CS121, CS122, IS112, IS223, IS241, IS323, IS396E (Java), IS660Z(Programming Games Using VB)  Lead developer for Web Assisted CIS101  Revision Chair for IS Undergraduate curriculum  Co-author with Dr. Jeanine Meyer of Programming Games With Visual Basic, Course Technology, 2001  I have taught C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, and JavaScript  Written a textbook for Visual Basic and for JavaScript

4. 4 My Computing Background  MS in CS (Pace), PhD in IS from NJIT, dissertation on privacy management in social networking site  Two daughters, recent college grad (2008) and college sophomore  Prior Experience: Programmer/Analyst at NYC investment bank, Technology Coordinator at Graphics Design Firm  Husband journalist with The New York Times  Research interests: social networking and social media, online privacy management, and ‘Green IS:’ Information systems in support of environmental sustainability  Links to my research on my web site: http://csis.pace.edu/~dwyer http://csis.pace.edu/~dwyer  You?

5. Required Text and Software  Texts:  Magal and Word – Essentials of Business Processes and Information Systems, Wiley Publishers, ISBN: 978-0470- 48276-6  Gelinas, Ulric, Sutton, Steve, Fedorowicz, Jane, Business Processes and Information Technology, From the Global Text Project (http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/). (download scanned version and open on your machine)http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/  Software:  WileyAccess.com for text exercises and SAP simulations (Web site)  Microsoft Visio (available through MSDNAA)

6. Material on My Web Site and blackboard  Prof. Dwyer’s Web Page Prof. Dwyer’s Web Page  Blackboard site - http://blackboard.pace.eduhttp://blackboard.pace.edu  Announcements  Faculty contact information  Syllabus and Class Schedule  Assignments  Course Resources  Communication  External Links

7. Pace Software Downloads

8. MSDNAA

9. Student Membership on ACM

10. What are Enterprise Systems?  (slides from Magal chapter 1)

11. Next week  Come to class with Magal text  Try to register for the course (follow the link in Blackboard)