Knowra Business informatics Business informatics Business informatics studies and designs information systems that support business processes, organizations, and decision-making. It combines business administration, information technology, and systems thinking.
Business process : A structured set of related activities that produces an outcome for a customer or organization. Information systems are designed to support, coordinate, or reshape these activities.
Business process modeling : The representation of business activities, decisions, roles, and information flows using formal or visual models. Models make workflows explicit before systems automate or coordinate them.
Supply chain management : The coordination of sourcing, production, inventory, and delivery across organizations and suppliers. Integrated information systems help coordinate material and data flows across company boundaries.
Management information systems : An academic and professional field examining information systems in organizations, with emphasis on management and organizational use. It overlaps closely, while business informatics often emphasizes the design and technical integration of systems.
Enterprise architecture : A description of an organization's business processes, information, applications, and technology and their relationships. It connects business goals with the systems and infrastructure that must support them.
Business Process Model and Notation : A standardized graphical notation for representing business processes and their events, tasks, gateways, and flows. BPMN gives teams a shared language for specifying processes that software may implement.
Customer relationship management : The practices and technologies organizations use to manage interactions with current and potential customers. Customer data systems connect sales, service, and marketing activities.
Computer science : The study of computation, algorithms, programming, and the principles underlying computer systems. Business informatics addresses organizational needs alongside computing, rather than computation as its primary subject.
Database : An organized collection of data managed for storage, retrieval, and use. Business systems depend on structured data about customers, products, transactions, and operations.
Enterprise resource planning : Integrated software that manages core organizational functions using shared data and coordinated modules. ERP systems embody the field's concern with linking processes across departments.
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