Second Major Options

Information Systems Second Major Options

Advanced Business Solutions

“Business Solutions” are the software applications that enable all of the functional areas of business. These solutions incorporate the essential logic of how management uses information to make decisions. These solutions create and manage the data that results from any type of business interaction or transaction. These solutions also define and manage the business processes that serve as the company's "central nervous system". Business Solutions also are key to information sharing and management across the company, and between the company and its partners. One cannot fully understand how a business functions without understanding the role of the key business solutions used within the company.

In recognition of the vital roles played by the Business Solutions in managing an enterprise, SIS has launched a new second major option, Advanced Business Solutions. Through this second major, students are able to work with a number of new generation solutions that perform various types of business critical functions. In using these solutions, students are also exposed to business processes and problem solving in specific functional and industry domains. Students who understand how these solutions work, the business context in which they are used, and how to deploy and leverage them to improve business performance, will have a strong employment related advantage.

The Advanced Business Solutions (ABS) Second Major can be done in the following ways:

- ABS without Specialisation
- Banking Processes & Solutions Specialisation
- Business Intelligence & Analytics Specialisation
- Service Systems & Solutions Specialisation

An overview of the Options are shown below:

The course requirements for each of these Advanced Business Solution options are given in the tables below.

ABS without Specialisation
	Option A 5 IS Technology Depth Electives 2 IS Management Depth Electives	Option B 6 IS Technology Depth Electives 1 IS Management Depth Electives
IS Technology Depth Electives	Any 5 IS Technology Depth Electives from here	Any 6 IS Technology Depth Electives from here
IS Management Depth Electives	Any 2 IS Management Depth Electives from here	Any 1 IS Management Depth Electives from here
SIS Faculty Advisor: Venky SHANKARARAMAN

Banking Processes and Solutions Specialisations
	Option A 5 IS Technology Depth Electives 2 IS Management Depth Electives	Option B 6 IS Technology Depth Electives 1 IS Management Depth Electives
IS Technology Depth Electives	The following 2 Technology Depth Electives • Retail Banking Processes and Solutions • Financial Markets Processes and Solutions Any other 3 IS Technology Depth Elective from here	The following 2 Technology Depth Electives • Retail Banking Processes and Solutions • Financial Markets Processes and Solutions Any other 4 IS Technology Depth Elective from here
IS Management Depth Electives	Any 2 IS Management Depth Electives from here	Any 1 IS Management Depth Electives from here
NOTE: Students with special interest in banking processes, operations and technology solutions are strongly encouraged to take some of the courses in finance that are offered by the Lee Kong Chian School of Business. These courses can be counted towards your Business Oriented Electives. SIS Faculty Advisor: NG Tock Soon

Business Intelligence & Analytics Specialisation

Option A

5 IS Technology Depth Electives

2 IS Management Depth Electives

Option B

6 IS Technology Depth Electives

1 IS Management Depth Electives

IS Technology Depth Electives

Any 5 IS Technology Depth Electives from this list

• Advanced Data Management

• Advanced Information Security and Trust

• Data Mining and Business Analytics

• Data Warehousing and Business Analytics

• GIS and Business Intelligence

• Search Engine Technologies

Any 5 IS Technology Depth Electives from this list

• Advanced Data Management

• Advanced Information Security and Trust

• Data Mining and Business Analytics

• Data Warehousing and Business Analytics

• GIS and Business Intelligence

• Search Engine Technologies

Plus
Any other IS Technology Depth Elective from here

IS Management Depth Electives

Any 2 IS Management Depth Electives from here

Any 1 IS Management Depth Electives from here

NOTE:
Students with special interest in data mining and the use of statistical methods for business intelligence are strongly encouraged to take these two statistics courses offered by the School of Economics:

• Applied Statistical Methods
• Probability Theory and Statistical Inference

These 2 courses can be counted towards your Business Oriented Electives OR towards your IS Management Depth Electives.

Also, consider choosing your Business Oriented Electives to study topics offered by any other SMU school where Business Intelligence & Analytics can be applied.

SIS Faculty Advisors: LIM Ee-Ping and KAM Tin Siong

Service Systems & Solutions Specialisations
	Option A 5 IS Technology Depth Electives 2 IS Management Depth Electives	Option B 6 IS Technology Depth Electives 1 IS Management Depth Electives
IS Technology Depth Electives	The following 3 Technology Depth Electives: • Enterprise Adaptive Decision Support • War Gaming as a Business Tool • Intelligent Agent Design and Application Plus Any 2 IS Technology Depth Elective here	The following 3 Technology Depth Electives: • Enterprise Adaptive Decision Support • War Gaming as a Business Tool • Intelligent Agent Design and Application Plus Any 3 IS Technology Depth Elective from here
IS Management Depth Electives	Any 2 IS Management Depth Electives from here	Any 1 IS Management Depth Electives from here
NOTE: IS Management Depth Electives that are strongly aligned with the Service Systems and Solutions Specialisation are: Supply Chain Processes and Solutions Enterprise Information Systems Students with special interest in service systems and solutions are strongly encouraged to take some of the Operations Management courses offered by the Lee Kong Chian School of Business. These courses can be counted towards your Business Oriented Electives. SIS Faculty Advisors: MA Nang Laik and LAU Hoong Chuin

For non IS students taking
ISM as a second major, see here

Last updated on 8 August, 2008 by School of Information Systems.