Technology and programming foundation for business analytics projects. Programming language under the context of business analytics cases.

Exploration of IT infrastructure and its role in supporting and empowering organizations. Topics include telecommunications, service delivery, service level management, security, privacy, identity management, ethics, and contemporary methodologies for managing IT infrastructure.

Conceptual modeling, database design, and implementation. Database inquiry and data analysis using a nonprocedural programming language. Entity/Relationship diagrams, normalized database schema, structured query language. Distributed databases with integrity and security issues. Client-server computing.

Communication networks and the ability of such networks to address business needs. Topics include communications needs analysis, communication network design, software defined networking as well as implementation and testing networks.

Introduction to computer security in networked systems. Security issues and policies with regard to hardware, software development, databases, operating systems and networks. Common attacks on systems will be covered. Vulnerability assessment tools and techniques for defending systems will be explored in various projects. Professional responsibilities.