Магистерское и послевузовское образование

Enterprise Information Infrastructure

This course is focused on enterprise infrastructure and integration technology. Course presents different approaches to enterprise architecture and modern solutions of information infrastructure problems. Course’s topics cover strategies that help large enterprises to increase the agility of their IT systems. Covering both a business and architectural view, these strategies aim to promote the implementation of an IT infrastructure that can serve as a base for the development of truly flexible business processes.
Course materials, practical examples and exercises provide information on most important aspects of modern infrastructure solutions:

• Approaches for designing information infrastructure of modern enterprises
• Enterprise portal technology, including collaboration and knowledge management
• Usage of Business Intelligence, including OLAP and MDM systems
• Modeling and building enterprise process infrastructure with software integration aspects­ Enterprise Infrastructure Lifecycle Management

Lecturer Ivenko

Data Warehousing

This course is focused on datawarehouse technology. Course’s topics covers concepts and principles behind datawarehouse solutions, examines business demand for analytical applications and modern trends in their development, comparison of modern OLAP and OLTP system.
The course is intended to provide strong understanding of multi-dimensional modeling technics, technical realization of metadata objects – characteristics, keyfigures, infocubes, operational data store, persistent staging area.
Course materials, practical examples and exercises provide information on most important aspects of modern datawarehouse solutions:

• Data extraction from source OLTP system and Data Flow within Datawarehouse including concepts of transfer and update rules, datasource and infosource, different update methods
• Business Content installation and usage
• Creating and administration of InfoCubes, role of PSA in datawarehouse architecture
• Aggregates and their technical realization
• Datamarts interface, ODS objects and Multiproviders

Lecturer Ivenko

Основы IT-менеджмента

This course provides an introduction and overview to ITSM principles and IT Infrastrucuture library. The student gains terminology and processes that define the best practices for IT infrastructure operation. Successful students will get knowledge of ICT infrastructure management, service delivery and support.

Lecturer Kozlov

ERP system administration

This course is focused on modern ERP system management and administration. The course provides common ERP architecture definition and description of administration tasks – Security Management, Changes Management, DBMS administration and System Monitoring. Particularly this course describes the technical fundamentals of SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP and contains detail information about using configuration and administration tools of SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP.
Course topics and practical exercise includes:

• Basic principals and concepts in Administration of ERP System
• System architecture of ERP System
• Basic principals in DBMS Administration
• Data Archiving
• Change Management
• Scheduling of Background Jobs
• User Administration
• Information Security Management in ERP System
• Distributed Data Processing and Data Transfer in ERP System
• System Monitoring
• ERP Support Services and System Updates

Lecturer Konovalov

Analytical applications

This course is focused on modern analytical applications based on datawarehouse technology – Business Planning applications and Starategic Enterprise Management solutions – corporate performance monitor, value-driver tree, management cockpit and risk management.
The course provides technical information on building analytical solutions and covers methodology background – Balanced Scorecard, Integrated planning, rolling forecast approach, using KPI in corporate government.
Course topics and practical exercise includes:

• Basic principals and concepts in Business Planning
• Relationship between Data Warehouse and Planning Application
• Modeling objects and techniques in Planning Enviroment
• Using Variables in Planning Applications
• Manual planning layouts and planning folders
• Rolling Forecast realization
• Use and Configuration of Measure Builder
• Use and Configuration of Balanced Scorecard and Value Driver Tree

Lecturer Konovalov

ERP-Systems – architecture, implementation

This course is focused on ERP (Enterprise Recource Planning) technology. Course’s topics covers concepts and principles behind business applications, examines business demand for accounting, logistics and HR-management applications and modern trends in their development, comparison of modern OLTP systems.
The course is intended to provide strong understanding of system architectures, implementation metodologyes – Accelerated SAP, Oracle AIM.
Course materials, practical examples and exercises provide information on most important aspects of modern ERP-solutions:

• MySAP ERP Financials
• Manufacturing planning and execution processes within SAP ERP
• Human Capital Management

This course gives participants an overview of the different processes in financial accounting, logistics and HR-management and shows the connections between the individual processes. Course topics and practical exercise includes:

• System navigation
• FI- Master data
• General ledger accounting
• Accounts payable business processes
• Accounts receivable business processes
• Master Production Scheduling (MPS)
• Materials Requirements Planning (MRP)
• Capacity evaluations
• Integration with Manufacturing execution
• HR-Master data
• Time Management
• Personal Administration
• Recruitment
• Personnel Development
• Reporting

Lecturer Medvedev

Корпоративные сети

In Corporate Networks course students will learn how to perform the conceptual, intermediate, and detailed design of a network infrastructure that supports desired network solutions over network services to achieve effective performance, scalability, and availability.
Students will learn the fundamental aspects of internal and edge network design, network management, high availability, security, quality of service (QoS), and IP multicast. In addition, students will be able to design solutions for the network that are strategic to small, medium, and large enterprises, including virtual private networking, wireless, and IP telephony.
Before taking Corporate Networks course, learners should be familiar with internetworking technologies studied in course "Computer Networks and Data Transmission Systems".
Practical training addresses the following learner's skills:

• Management of emerging and existing corporate network;
• Configuration and troubleshooting network services and solutions;
• Securing network.

Lecturer Smelansky

Project Management

The summary in brief The scope of the given course methodological approaches to the organization of management by various types of projects will be considered: organizational, technological, innovative, industrial, etc. at all levels of management of the organization - strategic, tactical and operational.
During training key fields of knowledge of management will be in detail considered by the projects all, allowing to generate the project-focused thinking of students:

• Project Integration Management;
• Project Scope Management;
• Project Time Management;
• Project Cost Management;
• Project Quality Management;
• Project Human Resource Management;
• Project Communications Management;
• Risk Project Management;
• Project Procurement Management.

Besides in the course methodological bases of creation of a corporate control system by projects, data on modern tool means of design management and ways of a mathematical estimation of a management efficiency the project will be given. The theoretical part is based on the best practices, international standard of management of the projects and The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge - PMBOK® from PMI™ (Project Management Institute, USA). On seminars and practices on real examples typical problems of management by projects and ways of their decision will be considered. Student will master practical skills of management of processes of projects.
The description of the practical works, seminars at the course in brief Seminars: practical questions of the project management on each of fields of knowledge will be studied, and also by means of problems and the analysis of examples from IT-projects Practical skills of management will be mastered. Practical works: the given course assumes practical application of knowledge, which students will receive during lectures and seminars. The trainings cases which allow stage by stage, in process of accumulation of theoretical knowledge stands out, to construct and realize means MS Project® a model of management of a training project.
The bibliography 1. Management of projects. Bases of the Professional knowledge and National Requirements to Competence Experts for Management of Projects. Moscow, Association of Management of Projects, 2004. 2. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge - PMBOK® Guide. Project Management Institute, Inc., USA, 2000.

The lecturer: V.A. Sobolev
(3-th semester, lectures - 2 hours per week, practical employment - 2 hours per week, seminars - 2 hours per week, examination at the 3-th semester)

Functionality Development for ERP (ABAP & Java)

This course is focused on development approaches, methodology and tools concerning ERP systems. Course’s topics cover concepts and principles of development process and appropriate environment traits.
The basic training on relational data design, processing and output in ERP system is the key goal of this course. Understanding of ABAP 4GL language is provided emphasizing those features that bring effective and user-friendly ERP functionality.
Course materials, practical cases and exercises provide information on most important aspects of modern ERP development:

• Development methodology and connected processes in project team;
• Supportive tools, such as Change management, authorizations, role-based task splitting;
• Data structures design;
• Embedded multinational and multiuser environment support;
• Relational data viewpoint and appropriate code patterns;
• Various interaction scenarios: operational reporting, print forms and interactive dialog programming.

The lecturer: Chuprov