31276 Networked Enterprise Architecture

Organisations in Australia and around the world are increasingly recognising that they do not operate in isolation, but that competitive advantage depends on business networks. This subject introduces ways in which information systems can support business networking, focusing on sharing information and integrating business activities with business partners. Topics include EDI and exchange of transaction data; the establishment and management of supply chains; contractual arrangements and planning; and the role of service and networking standards in the development of inter-organisational networks. Students learn how to elicit architectural requirements, develop specifications and design distributed application architectures to support networked business environments.