Digital and Technology Solutions: Business Analyst

This module will allow you to gain experience in developing mobile web applications, and have an introduction to the tools, languages and design techniques required for building functional applications. During the module you will gain exposure to a programming language that can support native mobile application development, and you will be introduced to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) software design pattern.

This module helps students develop the skills and knowledge needed to launch and manage a small business successfully. It examines the concepts of entrepreneurship and innovation and then defines and helps students acquire the personal and professional skills needed to succeed as entrepreneurs in Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs). Students are helped to reflect on their own abilities and aspirations and assisted in the preparation of a viable business start-up plan. By the end of the module students will have located and evaluated sources of information related to support, advice and funding of business start-ups and will have developed functional skills appropriate to the management of SMEs.

This module is designed to bring together the tools and techniques covered in earlier modules dealing with industrially recognised development frameworks that incorporate prototyping. It looks at the methods of analysing a business problem and subsequently highlights the process of utilising the different software development process models, which can be applied in the realisation of a software solution. In particular it addresses the issues raised through following iterative and incremental development approaches.

In addition, the module is designed to allow students to learn to carry out research activities in a systematic and organised way and to critically evaluate and review their work and the work of others. The skills learnt within this module will prepare students to research and explore project ideas that they may work on during their final year.

This module is about human and technical aspects of interactive computing systems and organisations. In the course of taking this module, you'll consider the interplay between human users, designers, developers and computers. Therefore, its basis is in psychology and human factors as well as in software engineering and interaction design.

This module will allow the student to practice systems analysis and design techniques in order to provide a design solution to a specific problem. The content of module will include:

1. Elicitation methods
2. Task and data analysis
3. Establishment and management of requirements
4. Analysis and design documentation, e.g. use cases, sequence diagrams, conceptual models
5. Change management
6. Risk management

This aim of the module is to enable the students to gain an overall understanding of marketing and organisation management. It allows the students to fully understand the day-to-day operations, including the various functions within organisations. Students will also learn how HRM can play a significant role in organisations in the long term through learning and development. Furthermore, the module will introduce the principles, methods and tools of marketing.

This aim of the module is to enable the students to gain an overall understanding of business domain analysis. Business analysis ensures the alignment between business needs and business change solutions, e.g. IT systems, and business-IT alignment allows business solutions deliver the desired business outcomes. This module focuses on a holistic view on the people, organisation, technology and information perspectives of business domains. It covers the theories, methods and techniques of identifying, capturing and analysing business needs in relation to business strategies, stakeholders and business processes.

This module aims to give you an understanding of how to manage information system (IS) development projects so as to deliver quality projects on time and within budget. Your studies will apply to the management of your individual project as well as to team leader roles in the management of larger scale commercial projects.

This module emphasises on the security requirements for enterprises in the digital world. It will take an explicit approach towards identifying the security risks for organizations in the current era and delve into a holistic approach to address/mitigate against these risks. The content of the module will include:

• Introduction to a digital enterprise
• Threats to enterprise infrastructure
• The information security process: Prevention, Detection and Response
• Authentication and Authorization for enterprise networks
• Risk Assessment
• Intrusion Detection and Response
• Security Auditing
• Backup and Disaster recovery
• Best practices for organizational security
• Emerging trends for enterprise security.

The aim of the module is provide a balanced view of "theory" and "practice," allowing the student to understand, use, and build practical big data management systems. The module is intended to provide a basic understanding of the issues and problems involved in massive data repository systems, a knowledge of currently practical techniques for satisfying the needs of such a system.

The synoptic project is a work-based project that broadly represents the skills, knowledge and behaviours in the standard. The project will provide substantive evidence from a business-related project to demonstrate the application of skills and knowledge. The end point assessment integrates the project outcomes and presentation into the overall synoptic project assessment. It will take place over a period of around 6 months, in the final year of the programme. It is designed to assess apprentices in a consistent way, irrespective of their particular workplace. Because of the significance of the project, the employer and university should work together with the apprentice to agree a project that is achievable within the employer’s business constraints and that meets the requirements of the standard. The project should be conducted as part of the apprentice’s normal work. Employers should make suitable allowance for the project to be undertaken, both in terms of time and resources. However there are some elements such as the writing of the report, particularly in its reflective aspects, that may be undertaken outside of normal work. This should be agreed between apprentice, employer and university such that apprentices are not disadvantaged in any way from performing their job and meeting the requirements of the project. Any issues with confidentiality and/or security will also be addressed between the university, employer and apprentice, allowing for projects of business value to be undertaken using real data. The project should relate to one of the specialisms in the standard.