Business Systems Integration with SAP technology (BSI)

Why study BSI?
A Master’s in Business Systems Integration combines the key
theories and concepts in business systems integration with hands-on
experience of the market-leading business management system.
This gives our students the edge in the employment market. Potential
employers, whether they are large enterprise SAP users or consulting firms with major SAP practices such as Accenture or IBM, are impressed by our graduates’ ability to draw on real SAP knowledge. We take this further and as an integral part of the course,
students will also have the opportunity to obtain SAP certification.This will enable them to jump-start their careers, gain a competitive advantage and enhance their credentials.



Who is the Course Aimed at?
The course is aimed at graduates in subjects that have either
included some ICT component or where relevant ICT experience
has been developed thereafter. The programme is therefore open
both to those who have recently completed an undergraduate
degree and to professionals with relevant experience.

Career Prospects
This course will equip you to work in areas such as: Business analysis

• Business process management
• ERP implementation and customisation
• Systems integration and support
• Technology–led change management

Course Objectives
In an increasingly competitive business environment, organisations
need to make disparate software systems work together in a
dynamic way in order to support new and innovative enterprise-level
business processes. Today, making systems work together like
this has proved to be expensive and time-consuming, with system
integration activities often costing significantly more than standard
application development.

Many organisations and technology providers are promoting a
‘service-oriented’ approach to integrating systems – both within and
across enterprises. The approach seeks to fuse business semantics
(definitions that describe the business in a consistent way) and Web
services in a way that allows much more flexibility in the development
of innovative, enterprise-level business processes.

In this context, the aim of this ‘cutting edge’ programme is to develop
practical skills and critical awareness in relation to the state-of-the-art
in business/enterprise systems integration (from a service-oriented
perspective). At the end of the course, you should be able to:

• model key aspects of business in an integrated and logical manner
• demonstrate a critical and practical understanding of the issues
  relevant to business systems integration
• demonstrate a critical and practical understanding of
  enterprise resource planning systems (erp) and the role they
  play in business systems integration
• demonstrate a critical and practical understanding of the professional skills necessary for effective business systems integration
• reflect, critically and in-depth, on relevant aspects of both the
  practice and theory of business systems integration

The practical elements of your course will be supported by SAP
technologies. SAP is a leading provider of Enterprise Resource
Planning systems and a keen innovator from a service-oriented
perspective. Broadly speaking, you will gain experience of SAP R/3,
Netweaver platform and business intelligence approaches.
Consequently, you will get hands-on experience of technology
and systems that will enhance your employability.