7000

Students learn to manage and perform activities throughout an information systems development life cycle from the analysis of system requirements and system design to system implementation and operation.  Advanced system development processes and the latest enterprise management methods and tools are presented.

Topics in this course include networking hardware and software, switches and routers, and network design technologies. Includes concepts of cyber security and security risks that affect computers and networks and explores methods and security options available to successfully protect the IT environment.

This course will introduce students to data visualization including both the principles and techniques in order to communicate information utilizing graphical means.  Students will learn the value of visual representation methods, specific techniques in information visualization and the emphasis placed on the identification of patterns, trends, and differences from data sets across categories, space, and time.  Data Visualization tools such as Tableau, Crystal Report and/or R will be incorporated.

Students are provided an introductory overview of data warehousing principles, data warehouse techniques, and business intelligence systems. Data warehouse planning, design, implementation, and administration issues in a case study format will be explored. Topics include an introduction to the data warehouse and ETL process, data modeling, and online analytic processing, which includes; OLAP, ROLAP, MOLAP, HOLAP, designing tools to build a data warehouse, database types, modeling types, schemas, queries, software for package initiation such as airflow and SQL agent.