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Enterprise Systems and Architecture

Topic - Legal services

Learning Outcome 1: Explain the importance of enterprise systems to support business strategy and apply the concepts of enterprise architecture in an organisational setting.

Learning Outcome 2: Describe the role of enterprise systems as part of the larger IT infrastructure of large scale organisations.

Learning Outcome 3: Analyse conceptual architectures, frameworks and methodologies related to the design and implementation of enterprise information systems.

Learning Outcome 4: Evaluate and compare various types of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solutions and justify a choice for specified requirements.

Assessment 1

Purpose: Students are required to answer weekly tutorial exercises on the topic covered in the lectures. The assessment contributes to learning outcomes a, b, c and d.

Assessment 2
Assessment Purpose: Students are required to answer a set of questions covering topics 1,2, 3, and 4 inclusive

Assessment 3
Purpose: Students are required to write case studies to discuss the role of enterprise system architecture and enterprise systems in the business operations and innovations. Students will provide justification with substantial real-life examples to support the arguments. The assessment contributes of learning outcomes a and b.

Assessment topic: Significance of Enterprise Systems Architecture and Enterprise Systems in Business Innovations

Task details:

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a framework that helps businesses align their strategy, processes, and technology to achieve their goals. It is a means to ensure that all the stakeholders are on the same page in regards to the organisation's vision and mission enabling enhanced communication, increased efficiency, and reduce costs. EA is an essential aspect of business strategy that integrates all aspects of the organisation's structure, including its people, processes, and technology. It enables businesses to make wise decisions and optimize their technology investments by providing a holistic view of the organisation. To ensure long-term success and competitive advantage in today's rapidly evolving business setting. It helps in the successful deployment of a company's business strategy through analysis, design and planning. Business can get the best out of their digital transformation efforts and bridge the gap between IT and business and thereby increase revenue by using EA to compose new business models that drive better revenue through innovation and successful execution.

With reference to the above context, answer the following questions:

The report should include the following:

1. Introduce the enterprise architecture, and how organisations should envelope it for enhancing the business model
2. What is the association between the concept of Enterprise Architecture and the successful implementation of Enterprise Systems?
3. What are the contributions of the enterprise architecture and enterprise systems in today's organisations?
4. Provide an understanding of the different types of enterprise systems and the significance of the use of enterprise systems in different business settings with the help of two case studies.

*Assessment 4

Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to provide students with practical experience in working in teams to write a research report to outline the rationale, challenges and benefits provided to different businesses by developing enterprise architecture for the specified system. This assessment contributes to learning outcomes c and d.

Assessment topic: Enterprise Systems and Architecture (ESA) design project

Task details:

Students will form groups with a maximum of three members in a group. The student groups are required
to identify the core processes and design a suitable "ESA blueprint for a special industry". The assessment should include the use of appropriate framework and discuss on how the framework can be used for developing the blueprint of the ESA. Every group should prepare a case study on one of the below business types:

1. Health Organisations

2. Academic Institutions

3. Public Relations

4. Distribution

5. Professional Services

Student groups are required to check with their lecturer/tutor to get the topic approved to make sure there is no direct overlap between groups. Once the topic has been approved students should begin the preliminary work for the assessment. The assessment has two deliverables:

To design a suitable ESA structure for the chosen organisation, the groups are required to present the following in the report:

1. Identify the core business and support functions: front office and back office processes, core information entities, transactions and information flows, material and financial systems

2. Support systems, internal and external integration

3. Provide a summary of what architecture framework used for organising the information - Students should choose either Zachman or TOGAF and provide a justification on why they believe the framework is suitable for the organisation

4. Provide a discussion on what will be the most suitable enterprise system for your selected organisation and why? The justification should be provided in relation to the business processes and not a generic discussion.

5. Reference source must be cited in the text of the report and reference list should be provided at the end of the report using Harvard Anglia referencing style.

Each group will provide the following for the group activity log:

1. Document group member discussion, division of responsibilities and individual efforts used as evidence of individual contributions.

2. The minutes of the group meetings should be documented and attached as appendix to this report, clearly indicating who was present, issues, actions and agreed timeline

3. The log should indicate that a fair distribution of work among the group members was achieved. Periodic information such as emails or diary entries must be inserted wherever applicable

Briefly described below are the teaching methods/strategies used in this subject:
o Lectures (2 hours/week) are conducted in seminar style and address the subject content, provide motivation and context and draw on the students' experience and preparatory reading.
o Tutorials (2 hours/week) include class discussion of case studies and research papers, practice sets and problem-solving and syndicate work on group projects. Tutorials often include group exercises and so contribute to the development of teamwork skills and cultural understanding. Tutorial participation is an essential component of the subject and contributes to the development of many of the graduate attributes (see section 2.2 above). Tutorial participation contributes towards the assessment in many subjects (see details in Section 3.1 for this subject). Supplementary tutorial material such as case studies, recommended readings, review questions etc. will be made available each week in Moodle.
o Online teaching resources include class materials, readings, model answers to assignments and exercises and discussion boards. All online materials for this subject as provided by KOI will be found in the Moodle page for this subject. Students should access Moodle regularly as material may be updated at any time during the trimester
o Other contact - academic staff may also contact students either via Moodle messaging, or via email to the email address provided to KOI on enrolment.

*Note: Need Assessment 4 Only.