Kennesaw State University
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Fall 2006
IS 8822/01
Wednesdays 5:00 pm-7:45 pm, CL 2005
Course Description:	Modern information systems contain many vendor-supplied components that must be selected, integrated, tested, and installed. This course analyzes current practices in systems integration, including business intelligence, enterprise application integration (EAI), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and data integration. Further, this course addresses the skills required to develop system Requests for Proposals (RFPs), evaluation and management of contracts and contractors, testing methods, installation planning and outsourcing.
Prerequisites:	Admission to the MSIS Program or permission of the MSIS Director.
Textbook and Resources:	McGovern, James, Ambler, Scott W., Stevens, Michael E., Linn, James, Sharan, Vikas, & Jo, Elias K. (2004). A practical guide to enterprise architecture. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. [ISBN 0-13-141275-2} Sumner, Mary (2005). Enterprise resource planning. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. [ISBN 0-13-140343-5] These textbook(s) will be used to support the learning outcomes for this course, through readings, examples, and exercises.
Instructor:	Dr. Amy B. Woszczynski
Office:	CL 3009
Email Address:	awoszczy@kennesaw.edu
Phone:	770.423.6572
Office Hours:	Mondays, 1:00 pm-4:00 pm Wednesdays, 1:00 pm-5:00 pm Thursdays, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm and by appointment **Please note that occasionally, I will have meetings or other University activities during scheduled office hours. Therefore, I strongly encourage you to make an appointment to see me.**
Fax Number:	770.423.6731
Website Address:	http://vista.kennesaw.edu
Learning Outcomes:	As a result of completing this course, students will be able to: · Understand the process of systems integration within an organization · Evaluate whether or not to use an outsourcer to facilitate the systems integration process · Complete requests for proposals (RFPs) · Understand the importance of managing people involved in information systems integration projects · Thoughtfully analyze case studies

Classroom Policies:

Lecture Notes:

All lecture notes, announcements, assignment guidelines, and the like will be available on the class Web site: http://vista.kennesaw.edu

Make-up Exams:

There will be no make-up examinations. It is the student’s responsibility to arrange for an excused absence before the exam. A grade of zero will be assigned for all exams missed without an excused absence. If an emergency arises on the day of the midterm or assignment, and the instructor deems that the absence is excused, the student may be allowed to substitute a research paper or essay exam (instructor’s option) for a missed exam or assignment.

Guidelines for Submitting Work:

All hard-copy submissions should be arranged properly and stapled together. All assignments are due at the beginning of class, so if you are sending me an assignment via e-mail, it should be sent no later than the class start time. Late assignments will not be accepted! If you have any questions about your grades, contact me immediately. The end of the semester is too late to argue for grade changes on earlier assignments.

Attendance:

Class attendance is up to the student. However, high grades are clearly a function of attendance, good notes, questions, and productive studying. Active class participation is encouraged and welcomed. Late arrival, early departure, excessive conversation with other students, and the like are unacceptable.

WebCT Vista:

To login to WebCT Vista, you will need to know your login ID and your PIN. Detailed instructions for determining your login can be found at http://online.kennesaw.edu/webct-help/index.html.

Discussion Boards:

I encourage you to use the Discussion Board feature in WebCT. I will be happy to setup a private discussion board for your group. You may also post questions under the Q & A discussion board, or post anonymous suggestions under the Suggestion Box discussion board.

Instructor Absence: Normally I am in class on time. If I am more than 20 minutes late and prior arrangements have not been made, class is canceled.

Enrollment Policy:

Only those students who are enrolled in the class may attend lectures, receive assignments, take quizzes and exams, and receive a grade in the class. If a student is administratively withdrawn from this course, they will not be permitted to participate in WebCT nor will they receive any grade for the class.

Electronic Devices

In order to minimize the level of distraction, all beepers and cellular phones must be on quiet mode during class meeting times. Students who wish to use a computer/PDA for note taking need prior approval of the instructor since key clicks and other noises can distract other students. Recording of lectures by any method requires prior approval of the instructor. Students using a laptop in class should not check their email, browse the web, or in other way detract from the focus of the class.

Diversity Statement:

All courses offered by the Computer Science and Information Systems department will adhere to the KSU policy that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, disability, national origin, or sexual orientation.

Withdrawal Policy:

The last day to withdraw without academic penalty is 10/13/2006. Ceasing to attend class or oral notice thereof DOES NOT constitute official withdrawal from the course. Students who simply stop attending classes without officially withdrawing usually are assigned failing grades. Students wishing to withdraw after the scheduled change period (add/drop) must obtain and complete a withdrawal form from the Academic Services Department in the Registrar’s Office.

Email Policy:

The instructor will reply to e-mails that list the course number and section in the subject line of the e-mail (IS 8822/01). E-mails with other subject lines may not reach the instructor's mailbox.

WebCT Vista does not currently allow you to forward messages to an external account. Therefore, I strongly encourage you to check Vista messages frequently for class updates.

Classroom Behavior

Students are reminded to conduct themselves in accordance with the Student Code of Conduct, as published in the Undergraduate and Graduate Catalogs. Every KSU student is responsible for upholding the provision. For more details, visit http://ww.kennesaw.edu/academicaffairs/acadpubs/ucat2003-04/x.genpolicies%20.pdf . In a virtual classroom as in a regular classroom, students should interact in a responsible, professional manner, both with their peers and the instructor. Students who are in violation of this policy may have their discussion board postings deleted with a corresponding significant grade reduction for the assignment in questions. Further, these students may be subject to disciplinary action by the University.

Student Email and Web Account Access:

KSU uses a central authentication server that will allow one username and password to be used by all KSU users to access an increasing variety of applications (email, WebCT etc.). This unified network identification is referred to as your "NetID." The source for university-provided email and web space for students is located at http://students.kennesaw.edu . Students have access to this system once they have established their NetID. This system will provide email service through a web based interface, FTP and SFTP.

How to Activate your NetID:

To activate your NetID go to http://netid.kennesaw.edu and click on the "Sign up Now!" link. You will be asked to provide information to verify your identity and set your password. This password will only be for NetID enabled applications.

How to Look Up a NetID:

After you have activated your NetID, you can look up other users by logging into http://netid.kennesaw.edu and clicking on Directory Search.

How to Send Email:

For student email, your NetID in combination with the new email address would look like netid@students.kennesaw.edu .

Web Address:

For student web address, your NETID in combination with the new server address would look like http://students.kennesaw.edu/~netid.

If you have problems please call the Service Desk at ext. 6999 or e-mail service@kennesaw.edu .

Tentative Course Schedule: Subject to change
Week	Date	Topic	Chapters/Assignments
1	8/23	Course Overview & Introduction Understanding ERP Enterprise Architecture	S: Ch 1 M: xvii-xxvii
2	8/30	Re-engineering and ERP Systems Systems Architecture	S: Ch 2 M: Ch 1
3	9/6	Software Architecture Service-Oriented Architecture	M: Ch 2 M: Ch 3
4	9/13	Planning, Design, and Implementation of ERP Systems Methodology Overview	S: Ch 3 M: Ch 5
5	9/20	Group Project Workday
6	9/27	Enterprise Unified Process	M: Ch 6 Assignment #1
7	10/4	Agile Architecture Agile Modeling	M: Ch 7 M: Ch 8
8	10/11	Article Presentations	Assignment #2
	10/18	Group Project Workday
9	10/25	ERP Systems: Sales and Marketing, Accounting and Finance, Production and Materials Management, Human Resources	S: Ch 4-7
10	11/1	Presentation Tier Architecture Usability and User Experience Data Architecture	M: Ch 9 M: Ch 10 M: Ch 11 RFP Interim Deliverable
11	11/8	Managing an ERP Project Supply Chain Management and the eMarketplace Thought Leadership	S: Ch 8 S: Ch 9 M: Ch 12
12	11/15		Exam
13	11/22	No class, holiday
14	11/29	RFP/Integration Presentations
15	12/6	RFP/Integration Presentations
Final Exam	12/13	8PM: Final Projects Due	Final Projects Due

Special Dates:
Last day to petition to graduate	August 24
Last day to withdraw without penalty	October 13
Holiday, No Class	November 22
Last day of class	December 6
Grades Due	December 16
Graduation	December 15

Assignments:

Assignment #1 (Due 9/27): Case Study Write-up

In your project group, research a company that has gone through large-scale organizational change using technology and has faced difficult systems integration issues. Write a 3-5 page, double-spaced case study analysis of the company you selected.

Assignment #2 (Due 10/11): Article Write-up/Presentation

This is an individual assignment. Select an article (not on the class reading list) related to the course. Prepare a 1-2 page, double-spaced write-up of the article. Make a short (5-8 minutes) presentation to the class describing the main points of your article and how it relates to the class.

Exam (11/15)

This is an individual assignment. Based on the readings and classroom discussions, the exam may include multiple-choice, short answer and/or essay questions.

RFP Projects (RFP Interim Deliverable, 11/1; Presentations, 11/29 & 12/6; Write-up, 12/13)

Your project group will complete a request for proposal (RFP) for a company that you choose. You should work in teams of 4-5 persons (depending on class size). Once you have selected a company, please inform the instructor for approval. You should select a company from which you can gather enough information to complete a RFP (although you may have to use creative license for information that you cannot acquire). You should generally follow the guidelines from sample RFPs along with the relevant readings and information on WebCT. In addition to the RFP, your project should include a 5-10 page description of the company and the integration project proposed. Your group will conduct a pre-proposal conference for vendors (your classmates), where you will provide an overview of your project.

Grading: Generally, the project will be graded on its content (originality, accuracy and realism), relevance to the field of information systems integration, cohesiveness and depth of your grasp of the material you present, and professional style.

You are encouraged to submit in-progress drafts of your project to the instructor for feedback. Note that a turnaround time of about 1 week is to be expected, so prepare accordingly.

Supplemental Resources:

CIO Magazine

http://www.cio.com/

Business Integration Journal Online

http://www.bijonline.com/

Enterprise Systems Journal (on-line)

http://www.esj.com/

TechWeb

http://www.techweb.com

Assessment:
Assignment #1	25%
Assignment #2	20%
Exam	25%
RFP Project	30%
Total	100%

Grade Evaluation
A	90% - 100%
B	89% - 80%
C	79% - 70%
D	69% - 60%
F	59% or below

Computer Labs:

Please be aware of and follow all computer lab user policies.

Burruss Building

The labs on the fourth floor of the Burruss Building are open 7 days each week. See the schedule below. The Burruss labs are open most holidays however they are closed during most semester breaks. Be prepared to show your current student ID card upon entering the lab. The telephone number of the Burruss Building lab is 770-423-6110.

LAB HOURS:

Monday - Thursday	6:30 am – Midnight
Friday	6:30 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday	7:30 am - 7:30 PM
Sunday	10:00am - Midnight

SUMMER HOURS:

Monday - Thursday	7:30 am - 11:30pm
Friday	7:30 am - 5:00 PM
Saturday	8:00 am - 6:00 PM
Sunday	12 noon - 10:00pm

Science and Mathematics Building

The lab in SC 228 of the Science and Mathematics Building is open as listed below. The telephone number of the Science and Mathematics Building lab is 770-499-3351.

Monday - Thursday	9:00 am – 8:00 pm
Friday	10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Saturday	10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Sunday	Closed

Owl Printing System:

The Owl Print system (student network printing/copying solution) is in place in the KSU library as well as all the open labs and lab/electronic classroom combinations across campus.
Students must have an Owl Print card to use printing/copying services.

Student Course Evaluation:

A standard questionnaire (described below) will be administered during the last two weeks of the semester in all classes. Additional questions developed by the college or instructor(s) may be included as well. It is important that each student provide meaningful feedback to the instructor(s) so that changes can be made in the course to continually improve its effectiveness. We value student feedback about the course, our teaching styles, and course materials, so as to improve our teaching and your learning. At a minimum, the following two questions will be asked: 1) Identify the aspects of the course that most contributed to your learning (include examples of specific materials, exercises and/or the faculty member's approach to teaching and mentoring), and 2) Identify the aspects of the course, if any, that might be improved (include examples of specific materials, exercises and/or the faculty member's approach to teaching and mentoring).

Acquiring Final Grades:

The final grades for this course will be posted to the student’s permanent record using the KSU Banner system. Students may acquire their final grades by accessing their Banner account online. Grades are no longer mailed to students. Students needing verification of grades or enrollment should request either an official transcript or an enrollment verification through the Office of the Registrar.

APA Documenting Examples:

When any portion of another author's work is used, whether it is from a course textbook or outside work, including the World Wide Web, in whole, in part, or paraphrased, that work must be cited. Proper citation formats are provided on the reverse of this document. Failure to do so can result in Academic Misconduct Proceedings.
Acceptable Reference Formats (from North and Blade, 1998 (see below) reprinted with permission)

There are two components to a proper citation: the text citation and the reference or endnote. The text citation will usually consist of the author's or authors' last name(s) and the year of the publication. The endnote citation will read as follows:

Books

Last-name, First-initial. (Date). Book title. City, State: Publisher.

A reference for a single-author book:

North, M. M. (1996). Virtual reality technology. New York: Best Press.

A reference for a multi-author book:

North, M. M. & Blade, R. A. (1998). How to build skills for research. Colorado Springs:

IPI Press.

Journals

Last-name, First-initial. (Date). Article title. Journal Title, Volume(Issue), pages.

Journal Reference:

Here is an article in Volume 45, Issue 3, spanning pages 54-61.

Kelly, F. G. (1997). Networking made efficient. Journal of Computer Networking, 45(3),

54-61.

APA Documenting Examples Continued:

Conference Proceeding

Vanner, F. D. (1996). A survey of medical issues using virtual reality. Proceedings of the

Virtual Reality Medical Technology. 119-132. Nice, France.

World Wide Web (from http://www.apa.org/books/pubmant.html):

Available references from the web include: newspaper articles, newsletters, journals, research papers, government reports, online books or brochures)

Minimum requirements for documenting a reference from the web should include: a document title or description, a date (either the date of publication, update, or retrieval date), a complete URL. If possible, identify the author(s) of the document. Entire site no specific page.

Last-name, First-initial. (Date). Title. Publishing information. Retrieved from the World

Wide Web on mm/dd/yy: URL.

Kidspsych is a wonderful interactive Web site for children (http://www.kidspsych.org).

No reference entry is needed.

Citing Specific Documents on a Web Site:

American Psychological Association. (1995, September 15). APA public policy action

alert: Legislation would affect grant recipients [Announcement]. Washington, DC.

Retrieved January 25, 1996, from the World Wide Web:

http://www.apa.org/ppo/istook.html .

Individual document with no author identified or date:

ABC’s Website Survey: (n.d.). Retrieved August 5, 2004, from http://www.abc.com.

An independent document (no author identified): 1

Electronic reference formats recommended by the American Psychological Association.

(2000, August 22). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Retrieved August 29, 2000, from the World Wide Web:

http://www.apa.org/journals/webref.html.

If the primary author is not available for the body citation, the first key word is to be used:

(Electronic, 2000).

Academic Integrity Statement:

Every KSU student is responsible for upholding the provisions of the Student Code of Conduct, as published in the Undergraduate and Graduate Catalogs. Section II of the Student Code of Conduct addresses the University's policy on academic honesty, including provisions regarding plagiarism and cheating, unauthorized access to University materials, misrepresentation/falsification of University records or academic work, malicious removal, retention, or destruction of library materials, malicious/intentional misuse of computer facilities and/or services, and misuse of student identification cards. Incidents of alleged academic misconduct will be handled through the established procedures of the University Judiciary Program, which includes either an "informal" resolution by a faculty member, resulting in a grade adjustment, or a formal hearing procedure, which may subject a student to the Code of Conduct's minimum one semester suspension requirement.

Students are encouraged to study together and to work together on class assignments and lab exercises; however, the provisions of the STUDENT CONDUCT REGULATIONS, II. Academic Honesty, KSC Undergraduate Catalog will be strictly enforced in this class.

Frequently students will be provided with “take-home” exams or exercises. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure they fully understand to what extent they may collaborate or discuss content with other students. No exam work may be performed with the assistance of others or outside material unless specifically instructed as permissible. If an exam or assignment is designated “no outside assistance” this includes, but is not limited to, peers, books, publications, the Internet and the WWW. If a student is instructed to provide citations for sources, proper use of citation support is expected. Additional information can be found at the following locations.

http://www.apa.org/journals/webref.html

http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/citing.htm

http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html

http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/papers/copyright/ipdummie.html

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/plagiarism.html
http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/links.html
http://www.arts.ubc.ca/doa/plagiarism.htm
http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/%7ejanicke/plagiary.htm
http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/plagiarism.htm
http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm
http://www.engr.washington.edu/~tc231/course_info/plagiarism.html
http://quarles.unbc.edu/lsc/rpplagia.html

Acknowledgment and Acceptance of Academic Integrity Statement:

In any academic community, certain standards and ethical behavior are required to ensure the unhindered pursuit of knowledge and the free exchange of ideas. Academic honesty means that you respect the right of other individuals to express their views and opinions, and that you, as a student, not engage in plagiarism, cheating, illegal access, misuse or destruction of college property, or falsification of college records or academic work.

As a member of the Kennesaw State University academic community you are expected to adhere to these ethical standards. You are expected to read, understand and follow the code of conduct as outlined in the KSU graduate and undergraduate catalogs. You need to be aware that if you are found guilty of violating these standards you will be subject to certain penalties as outlined in the college judiciary procedures. These penalties include permanent expulsion from KSU.

Read the Academic Integrity Statement and then take the Academic Honesty Quiz in WebCT. You must complete this quiz during the first 2 weeks of classes. I will not grade any of your work until this quiz is completed. You are required to abide by these ethical standards while you are a student at KSU. Your successful completion of the WebCT Academic Honesty Quiz indicates that you understand the ethical standards expected of you in this academic community, and that you understand the consequences of violating these standards.