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Information Systems in E-Business and Online Commerce- Period 2
Business & Economics Program
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dates: mid Aug 2025 - early Jul 2026
Information Systems in E-Business and Online Commerce- Period 2
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Primary Subject Area: Business
Instruction in: English
Course Code: E_IBA3_ISEOC
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 84
DESCRIPTION
Recent technological developments in ICT are creating new possibilities for the interactions between organizations and various parties in their environment - business partners, customers, and others. At the same time, the use of these technologies also creates unprecedented amounts of data that organizations need to make sense of. In this course, we focus on these technologies, how they affect organizations? E-business and online commerce activities, and the demands this puts on the Information Systems (IS) used in the organization. This course does so by covering the following themes:
- Relevant developments in hardware, software and networking;
- The interaction between technology and organization;
- Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Systems;
- How changing ICT architectures and developments in the area of big data, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, social media and mobile technologies affect organizations' E-business activities
- The changing nature of markets and supply chains related to these technological developments
We relate these themes to concrete issues related to managing ICTs for E-business. Examples of such issues are:
- How to optimally support both back- and front-office E-business processes with ICT;
- How to derive meaningful intelligence from the big data generated by interactions and transactions through applications in the area of business Intelligence and algorithmic decision making;
- How the increasing flexibility of IS (as a consequence of moving to the cloud, modular ICT architectures and the increasing use of mobile devices) influences the way these technologies meet the requirements of these processes;
- How to manage the security of data, processes and systems in light of these developments.
We will not only be discussing these themes and issues in lectures, but you will also apply your knowledge about them in the analysis of a practical case and the development of an E-business solution in relation to that case.
Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course therefore, CEA's recommended credits are based on the ECTS credits assigned by VU Amsterdam. 1 ECTS equals 28 contact hours assigned by VU Amsterdam.
- Relevant developments in hardware, software and networking;
- The interaction between technology and organization;
- Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Systems;
- How changing ICT architectures and developments in the area of big data, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, social media and mobile technologies affect organizations' E-business activities
- The changing nature of markets and supply chains related to these technological developments
We relate these themes to concrete issues related to managing ICTs for E-business. Examples of such issues are:
- How to optimally support both back- and front-office E-business processes with ICT;
- How to derive meaningful intelligence from the big data generated by interactions and transactions through applications in the area of business Intelligence and algorithmic decision making;
- How the increasing flexibility of IS (as a consequence of moving to the cloud, modular ICT architectures and the increasing use of mobile devices) influences the way these technologies meet the requirements of these processes;
- How to manage the security of data, processes and systems in light of these developments.
We will not only be discussing these themes and issues in lectures, but you will also apply your knowledge about them in the analysis of a practical case and the development of an E-business solution in relation to that case.
Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course therefore, CEA's recommended credits are based on the ECTS credits assigned by VU Amsterdam. 1 ECTS equals 28 contact hours assigned by VU Amsterdam.