Enterprise Applications
Instructors:
R. Kent Jackson, Smith 406C, 496-1426
Resources:
- Browser
- Mac OS or Linux
- Laptop with 2 Gigabytes of RAM
Class Resources:
- The class will make extensive use of Oracle E-Business Suite documentation, slides and supplemental note web pages. The course outline is found at the bottom of the web page. All assignments are project oriented team engagements. Exams are individual and link to the project assignments, reading, and lecture.
- There is presently no formal textbook for this course. The instructor will point you to the online location of Oracle documentation. It is your responsibility to determine the depth of material reviewed to support your study.
Course Description:
The course deals with concepts and principles of ERP and CRM theory, application and management technologies. It focuses on the logical and physical design and implementation of the Oracle E-Business Suite.
Content and Topics:
- Computer to computer communication via sockets
- Operating processes, threads, shells and subshells
- Using the vi editor
- Basic linux commands for administration
- Linux systems configuration
- Staging software for installation
- Installation of enterprise applications
- Enterprise architectures
- Administration of enterprise applications
- Customizing an enterprise application
Goals and Objectives:
- Architecture of Distributed Computing Solutions (30% of course)
- Obtain an overview of computer communication paradigms, including forking processes and sockets.
- Understand the basics of system configuration, using Linux kernel tuning as a platform.
- Review and qualify the basics of Linux commands and vi editor use.
- Software Configuration (30% of course)
- Learn mechanisms for staging and configuring software.
- Learn how to install and maintain large systems.
- Examine comparative large-scale system organization, compare and contrast SNA to modern application architectures.
- Software Deployment (40% of course)
- Learn mechanisms for organizing systems like Accounts Payable in an ERP or CRM system.
- Learn how to extend ERP or CRM systems by adding a new application to an existing suite of applications.
Course Requirements:
There is a potential 1000 possible points for this class broken down as follows:
- Projects (250 points)
- Exams (200 points)
- Final Project (500 points)
- Class participation (50 points)
Course Policies:
- You are expected to attend and participate in each class and lab. You are expected to support and help your team members.
- During class time, you are expected to be on task working on the case studies or the project. You will be asked to leave class if you are found to be working on something other than the assigned course work.
- BYU-Idaho standards are outlined in the student handbook. Students are expected to abide by the college honor code. No cheating will be tolerated. The dress code will be enforced in class and in the labs.
- Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits sex discrimination against any participant in an education program or activity that receives federal funds, including Federal loans and grants. Title IX also covers student-to-student sexual harassment. If you encounter unlawful sexual harassment or gender based discrimination, please contact the Personnel Office at 496-1130.
- Brigham Young University-Idaho is committed to providing a working and learning atmosphere that reasonably accommodates qualified persons with disabilities. If you have any disability that may impair your ability to complete this course successfully, please contact the Services for Students with Disabilities Office, 496-1158. Reasonable academic accommodations are reviewed for all students who have qualified documented disabilities. Services are coordinated with the student and instructor by this office. If you need assistance or if you feel you have been unlawfully discriminated against on the basis of disability, you may seek resolution through established grievance policy and procedures. You should contact the Personnel Office at 496-1130.
