This document provides an overview of information systems from four perspectives: corporate, administrative, marketing, and knowledge management. For the corporate perspective, it discusses enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business process management (BPM). It then explains digital currency and digital signatures from an administrative view and analytics from a marketing perspective. Finally, it covers e-learning as it relates to knowledge management.

1. Information Systems – an overview
Carlos J. Costa (2015)

2. ● Information Systems and Corporate perspective
– ERP
– BPM
● Information Systems and Administrative perspective
– Digital Currency
– Digital signature
● Information Systems and Marketing perspective
– Analytics
● Information Systems and Knowledge Management
– E-learning

3. Information Systems and Corporate
perspective
● Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
● Business Process Management (BPM)

4. ERP
● Enterprise Resource Planning
● Set of very integrated programs
● Information should be introduced in the system
just one time
● Allow process integration
● Supported by BDMS

5. ERP
ERP Open Source:
ADempiere ERP Business Suite. (Java)
Apache OFBiz. Multi-platform (Java)
Odoo. (Python, Javascript, PostgresSQL)
xTuple. (Qt and Postgres)
OpenBravo ERP. (Java)
ERP5. (Python, Zope)
...

6. BPM
“Business Process Management (BPM) is a discipline involving any combination
of modeling, automation, execution, control, measurement and optimization of
business activity flows, in support of enterprise goals, spanning systems,
employees, customers and partners within and beyond the enterprise
boundaries.” source: http://www.wfmc.org/

7. Information Systems and
Administrative perspective
● Digital Currency
● Digital signature

8. Digital Currency

9. Digital signature
● https://www.cartaodecidadao.pt/documentos/Manual_Carta
o_de_Cidadao_v1.26.0.pdf
● https://www.cacert.org/

10. Information Systems and Marketing
perspective
● Analytics

11. Analytics
● Data Mining is an analytic process designed to explore data in
search of consistent patterns and/or systematic relationships
between variables, and then to validate the findings by applying
the detected patterns to new subsets of data.
– Classification
– Regression
– Clustering
– Summarization
– Association Rules
– Change and deviation detection
● Tools

12. Information Systems and
Knowledge Management
● E-learning

13. Information Systems and
Knowledge Management
● e-learning is education via the Internet, network,
or standalone computer.
● e-learning is essentially the network-enabled
transfer of skills and knowledge.