Topics include mainframe versus microcomputer networks, client-server strategies, and issues such as throughput and response time. Topics covered include artificial intelligence architectures, design and implementation, decision support systems design and business application and the underlying logic of knowledge-based systems. The course uses case studies of design and implementation to focus on how database technology is relevant to organizations. Topics covered include structures of database management systems, application of data structures, differences between hierarchical, relational and networked data bases, query design, and data base access and file concepts. This course puts to practical use all the aspects of management information systems the student has learned.
Students create and implement a project of specific interest to the management of an organization.