End-User Computing

22B1305

Bachelor

Englisch

5.0

nur Sommersemester

1 Semester

Office applications are of vital practical importance to support, automate and optimize decision making in business management. Modern office solutions offer advanced features to end users in order to extract, integrate, model, explore and visualise relevant information for management support. This end-user computing approach is currently reinforced by the technological trend of datafication, sensorification and automatization which turns many aspects of business activities into digital data assets. In order to realize this potential, this course introduces the essential concepts, tools and techniques of end-user computing for business management based on state-of-the-art applications.

1. Conceptual foundations of end-user computing

2. End-user computing applications

3. Dashboards and decision support development

4. Data models and data management for end-user computing

5. Information visualisation and reporting

6. Design tools and concepts

7. Robotic process automation

8. Advanced topics

Der Arbeitsaufwand für das Modul umfasst insgesamt 150 Stunden (siehe auch "ECTS-Leistungspunkte und Benotung").

• Hausarbeit oder
• Klausur oder
• Portfolio-Prüfungsleistung

The portfolio exam covers 100 points and includes one written paper (HA) and one presentation (PR). HA is weighted by 70 points and PR is weighted by 30 points.

Written paper: approx. 15 pages plus appendix/attachment
Written examination: in accordance with the valid study regulations

Written paper of the portfolio exam: approx. 10 pages plus appendix/attachment
Presentation of the portfolio exam: approx. 15-30 minutes

The requirements are specified in the respective lectures.

Basic knowledge of office software products is being expected.

Students have knowledge of business information processing based on state-of-the-art standard software solutions.

Students are able to identify relevant application fields of end-user computing in order to enhance management processes.

Students in the module will be able to develop concepts on how digitalization can be implemented and strategically integrated at different levels and functional areas of the company.

Students are able to support basic business information processing tasks by use of modern end-user computing environments (e.g., for robotic process automation).

Students are capable to understand and criticize model artifacts (e.g., data models and process models).

Students are able to critically evaluate and communicate the business impact of modern standard software solutions for end-user computing.

Students are able to use and deploy standard software applications to realise the potential of end-user computing for the practice of business management.

The acquired competencies are helpful in other business management courses which deal with decision support and process management. Furthermore, the competencies are relevant to carry out practice-oriented bachelor theses, which require the design and optimization of business processes and/or the analysis of digital data.

• International Management, B.A. (01.09.2024)

• Bensberg, Frank

• Bensberg, Frank