BSc Business Information Technology

The Business Information Technology Degree concerns methods and technologies that can be used to create effective IT systems as solutions to business problems. In the past this demanded a strong emphasis on programming, but technological advances mean that we can now use pre-existing tools as ‘building blocks' to build effective applications with minimal programming. This enables a clear focus on business needs and on the process of building business applications.

The Business Information Technology degree emphasises analysing business requirements and translating them into business systems made from standard software building blocks.

The Business Information Technology degree gives a firm foundation in computing and business analysis skills, including:

• Web programming
• Systems analysis
• Commercial database applications
• Database management systems

It also emphasises specialised skills in the following areas:

• Business Process engineering
• E-commerce systems
• Web tools selection
• Commercial aspects of using Information Technology
• Design of commercial database applications
• Internet Security

Final year projects

Recently completed final year projects by our students include:

• Contact Management System: an online business application to allow sales and marketing people to keep records and appointments with customers.
• A hotel booking system, again built using tools available on the web. The booking system is itself a building block that can be downloaded and incorporated in further websites.