The last year has clearly demonstrated to everyone, including skeptics, that our daily and professional life is significantly dependent on information technologies and the infrastructure that provides them.
For development, in general, this means that the introduction of technological solutions will continue to grow in the near future, and, obviously, there will be changes in the direction of their complication and globalization. How is this related to higher education today and such a direction as “Business Informatics"?
Let us look at the needs of business in solving digitalization issues that require competencies that are already being developed today, if you have decided to do a degree in Business Informatics:
Focusing on IT from the IT side: ensuring the value of information technologies in the process of implementing and promoting IT, effective management of IT projects and information technologies within the company.
Focusing on the IT side of business: substantiating the value of information technology for business, the ability to analyze business problems and needs, knowledge of modern information technology and systems capabilities, understanding the specifics of managing a digital company and participating in the process of digital transformation.
The discipline introduces students to business analysis techniques and information system design technologies. The methodologies of functional, information, and business process analyses are considered.
The discipline introduces students to modern techniques and methods of architecture development. The tools for developing the organization’s architecture are considered.
Students study the basic principles underlying the development of information systems and technologies, the features of the current state of the IT industry and the degree of IT influence on enterprises and organizations.
Students obtain knowledge and skills for building data warehouses, developing data analysis procedures based on modern information technologies.
Students acquire professional knowledge and skills in terms of performing project work on enterprise engineering using modern methodologies and tools.
Students obtain knowledge and skills for the successful assessment of the cost of implementation, maintenance, and development of information systems.
Active participation in the educational process, internships in partner companies, participation in professional conferences – all this creates a stable foundation for building a career in the following professions:
The possibility of obtaining a certificate in the field of IT, training for specific vendor companies;
Using the results of monitoring the requirements of the labor market to update the content of academic disciplines that form the educational program. Active participation in the educational process of experts in the field of IT development, management, and implementation.
Interdisciplinarity as a principle of building a bachelor’s degree curriculum and the balance of the program in management, economics, mathematics, and IT;
Professional team, including scientific and pedagogical staff and representatives of the business community;
A wide selection internship programs in different companies and organizations;
The educational program is accredited by the Association of Computer and Information Technology Manufacturers (Russia) for compliance with professional standards “Information Technology Manager” and “Project Manager in the Field of Information Technology”.
