Teaching and Learning

The chair’s research and teaching centers around information systems (IS) supporting business processes in manufacturing and commerce. In teaching we mainly focus on the issue how information systems and technologies can be used to materialize the idea of fully integrated business processes supporting an end-to-end perspective on the enterprise.

From a conceptual point of view, this means looking at different aspects of architecture and integration as well as potential technologies for implementation in combination with managerial issues. Enterprise systems (such as SAP ERP) play an important role in this context, as they constitute the core of business applications in industry and commerce today. Thus these systems are further explored in hands-on exercises, simulation games and projects. Underlying these systems and inseparably linked to them are reference models that are usually organized from different perspectives (e.g. data, organization, tasks, processes). We look at them in form and content.