Information and Decision Sciences

IDS 412 Distributed Business Systems

Credit hours 3-Undergraduate 4-Graduate
Catalog description Organizational aspects and underlying concepts of distributed business systems, decentralization versus centralization issues, costs of distributed computing, and performance evaluation measures.
Key topics
  • Introduction to distributed business systems
  • Examples of business distributed systems
  • Configuration management for business distributed systems
  • Costs of computing
  • Decentralization and centralization
  • Distributed information systems
  • Data security
Prerequisites for this course IDS 201 or IDS 331; credit or concurrent registration in IDS 401
Course(s) for which this is a prerequisite None
Required course for None
Elective course for Selective course for IDS Majors
Frequency of offering Offering varies
Recent offerings, instructors, syllabi Spring 2006 Sunjaya
Spring 2005 Sunjaya
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