Course on Enterprise Information Systems

Course Description

This course will provide students with the knowledge of technologies and methodologies related to Enterprise Information Systems, from the description of the organization in terms of business processes and information assets.
Office Hours By appointment, in Room B213 (second floor), Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale (DIAG), Via Ariosto 25, Roma. To have an appointment, it is required to send an e-mail to the instructor one day before.
E-mail Address marrella <at> diag <dot> uniroma1 <dot> it
Mailing List enterprise-information-systems-2018 <at> diag <dot> uniroma1 <dot> it

News

  • In A.A.2018-2019, the course is held by Prof. Mecella. Course web page

  • Exam Dates :
    • 1 April 2019, at 14:30 in Room B203 (DIAG, Via Ariosto 25)
    • 19 Februrary 2019, at 9:30 in Room A5 (DIAG, Via Ariosto 25)
    • 18 January 2019, at 9:30 in Room B2 (DIAG, Via Ariosto 25)
    • 5 November 2018, at 14:00 in Room A6 (DIAG, Via Ariosto 25)
    • 8 June 2018, at 14:00 in Room A3 (DIAG, Via Ariosto 25)
    • 18 July 2018, at 9:00 in Room B2 (DIAG, Via Ariosto 25)
    • 17 September 2018, at 9:00 in Room B2 (DIAG, Via Ariosto 25)

Schedule of Lectures

DATE AND TIME TOPICS TACKLED
07/03/2018
08:00-10:00 (A4)
09/03/2018
08:00-10:00 (A2)
  • Information systems in organizations
    • Basic components of Information systems
    • Classification of Information systems
    • Transaction Processing Systems
    • Management Information Systems
    • Executive Support Systems
14/03/2018
16:00-17:30 (A6)
17:30-19:00 (A4)
16/03/2018
11:00-13:00 (A4)
21/03/2018
16:00-17:30 (A6)
17:30-19:00 (A4)
  • Process management in organizations
    • Introduction to Business Process Management
    • Typical processes in organizations: Order-to-Cash, Quote-to-Order, Procure-to-Pay,
      Issue-to-Resolution, Application-to-Approval
    • Case study: Equipment Rental Process of a construction company
    • Main ingredients of business processes
23/03/2018
11:00-13:00 (A4)
28/03/2018
16:00-17:30 (A6)
17:30-19:00 (A4)
06/04/2018
11:00-13:00 (A4)
11/04/2018
16:00-17:30 (A6)
17:30-19:00 (A4)
  • Process Identification
    • Definition of process landscape models
    • Process selection
    • Process performance measures
    • Process portfolio
13/04/2018
11:00-13:00 (B101)
18/04/2018
16:00-17:30 (A6)
17:30-19:00 (A4)
20/04/2018
11:00-13:00 (A4)
27/04/2018
11:00-13:00 (A4)
  • Process Modeling
    • Resource Perspective
    • Resource classes: pools and lanes
    • Send/Receive tasks
    • Start/End/Intermediate Message events
    • Collaborative processes
    • Classroom Exercise: Order Management
02/05/2018
16:00-17:30 (A6)
17:30-19:00 (A4)
04/05/2018
11:00-13:00 (A4)
09/05/2018
16:00-17:30 (A6)
17:30-19:00 (A4)
11/05/2018
11:00-13:00 (A4)
  • Conformance Checking
    • Introduction to Process Mining and Conformance Checking
    • Replay approaches to conformance checking
    • Measuring the quality of a process: the fitness value
    • Token-based replay approach
    • Trace Alignment
16/05/2018
16:00-17:30 (A6)
17:30-19:00 (A4)
  • Data Warehouse
    • Recap of relational DBs, DBMS, integrity constraints and functional dependencies
    • Characteristics of a Data Warehose (DW)
    • OLAP vs OLTP
    • DW architecture
    • Overview of ETL
    • Operation on DWs: roll-up, drill-down, slice and dice
18/05/2018
11:00-13:00 (A3)
  • Data Warehouse
    • Conceptual modeling for DWs
    • Dimensional Fact Model (DFM)
    • Dimensional attributes and hierarchies
    • Logical models for DWs: ROLAP, MOLAP and HOLAP
    • From DFM to Star Schema and Snowflake schema
23/05/2018
16:00-17:30 (A6)
17:30-19:00 (A4)
  • Architecture of EIS
    • Evolution of Enterprise Architectures
    • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
    • EISs in e-Government
25/05/2018
11:00-13:00 (A3)


Slides


Additional Material and Tools


Exercises

Exams

The exam will consist of:
  • A written examination with exercises and questions on the topics of the course.
  • An oral discussion consisting of a brief set of questions related to the course topics.
  • A short project to be held individually or in groups (more details below).

Projects

Students are strongly encouraged to propose their own idea for projects. Send an email to the lecturer to ask for the assignment of projects (please, do not start performing a project before you have it assigned).
Project presentation will be preferably carried out during pre-fixed days set by the lecturer. Students are however required to send an email in advance to fix the exact date and hour of their presentation.

There are two modalities for the project:
  • Tool demonstration
    • Details: The project connected to a tool consists of a demonstration of the basic use of one of the tools investigated during the course through one or more realistic examples/case studies. Presentation connected to projects (possibly through slides) should last around 10-15 minutes (including the demo).
    • Note: Projects can be carried out individually or in groups composed by 2 or 3 people (at most).
  • Article presentation
    • Details: It consists in preparing a 10-15 minute presentation about 2 scientific papers assigned by the lecturer.
    • Note: Article presentation can be carried out only individually.