This course addresses fundamental concepts of information technologies (IT) applied to management, essential to the daily routine of the future analyst, project manager or IT consultant. In practical terms, students will have the opportunity to configure a small ERP, much used at a national level, and acquire competences in the development of small XML applications. In this manner, students will get familiar with real problems that appear in the path of a professional of the IT domain. We also intend to stimulate group work abilities and the presentation of projects by the students. Competences:
1. Describe the main concepts studied in the course, including the main technological trends.
2. Know how to apply IT in current organisational scenarios.
3. Synthesise and present their ideas clearly and suitably, both orally and in writing.
4. Are capable of configuring a management information system and of understanding XML formats.

Module 1 - Zara Case Study.
Module 2 - XML Language. DTD and XML Schema technologies.
Module 3 - Technology Trends.
Module 4 - Network effects on organisations and their products.
Module 5 - Social Media and Web 2.0.
Module 6 - Open-source software and cloud computing.
Module 7 - ERP systems.
Module 8 - The Primavera Express application.
Module 9 - System integration.
Module 10 - The paradigm of service oriented architectures (SOA) and Web Services.

John Gallaugher, "Information Systems", Flatworld Knowledge, 2010.
Manuais em linha sobre XML disponibilizados pela W3C, a entidade normalizadora desta linguagem, em http://www.w3schools.com/.
Manuais da aplicação Primavera Express, fornecidos com a aplicação.
São ainda fornecidos aos alunos os acetatos da docente para ambas as matérias (teórica e prática) e referências para bibliografia adicional e pequenos textos disponibilizados livremente na Internet.