On successful completion of the course, students:

• Can explain the basics of digitization and business technologies as well as the essential areas of application and tasks of business software in the corporate context in a virtual cloud environment
• Understand the basics of information management and business information systems.
• Are able to describe the areas of application and possibilities of Social Enterprise/Enterprise 2.0 or collaborative systems and apply digital tools and methods to perform simple and practice-relevant tasks of digitization
• Can use the software products of the MS Office/Office365 family - with a focus on MS Word/Excel - in the context of operational tasks.
• Carry out tasks operationally in virtual teams and combine them with cloud applications.
• Analyze concrete and practice-relevant tasks and case studies and design appropriate solutions independently and in teams, incorporating simple methods of design thinking as well as statistical data sources and open data

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The course will cover the following topics/content:

• Fundamentals of digitalization and business technologies
• Business software and information management in the operational context (meaning and purpose of information systems, trend towards the networked enterprise, challenges in design and deployment, information system: strategy and organization of value creation)
• Practical use of MS Office/Office 365 in the operational environment

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Moderated group work, lecture, case work

Cumulative module examination
The module grade is calculated weighted by the ECTS credits of the individual courses (ILV - integrated lecture) of the module and results as follows:
ILV "Business Software" - 2.5 ECTS
Assessment type: Continuous assessment
Assessment method/s: Participation in Class, project work, written final examination