M.E. Software Engineering:E-Business

Semester I

Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies
Software Design and Construction
Research Methodology
Software Architecture
Software Project Management

Semester II

Software Quality Management
Software Verification, Validation and Testing
Software Metrics
Advanced Topics in Software Engineering

Semester III

Seminar
Thesis (Starts)

Semester IV

Thesis (Continued)

E-Business

Overview of e-Business: Linking today?s Business with tomorrow?s technology, e-Business means structural transformation, business design for e-Business, challenge traditional definitions of value, value in terms of customer experience, e-Business communities, major business trends.

Constructing e-Business Design: Self-diagnosis as a first step of e-Business design, Reversing the value chain as a second step of e-Business design, Choosing a narrow focus as a third step of e-Business design ? service excellence, operational excellence, continuous innovation excellence; Case studies.

Constructing e-Business Architecture: Issues of application integration, Cross-functional integrated applications, Integrating applications clusters into an e-Business architecture, Aligning the e-Business design with application integration.

Customer Relation Management (CRM): Why CRM?, Defining CRM, New CRM architecture, Supporting requirements of the next-generation CRM infrastructure, Challenges in CRM implementation, Next-generation CRM trends, Manager?s roadmap for building a CRM infrastructure.

Selling-Chain Management: Deriving forces for Selling-Chain management, Managing the order acquisition process, Case study of CISCO?s Selling-Chain management, Elements of Selling-Chain infrastructure.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): What is ERP?, Why ERP?, Enterprise architecture planning, ERP usage in the real World, ERP implementation, Future of ERP applications.

Supply Chain Management (SCM): Defining SCM, Basics of Internet-Enabled SCM, e-Supply chain fusion, Manager?s roadmap for SCM.

e-Procurement: Purchasing versus procurement, Operating resource procurement, Case study of open resource procurement at Microsoft, e-Procurement chain management, Next generation integrated procurement applications, Elements of Buy-Side e-Procurement solutions, Elements of Sell-Side e-Procurement solutions, Manager?s roadmap for e-Procurement.

Knowledge-Tone Applications: Why knowledge applications and what is it?, Emerging classes of knowledge-tone applications, knowledge-tone usage in the real World, Elements of knowledge-tone architectural framework, Data warehousing, Online analytical processing (OLAP), Roadmap to knowledge-tone framework.

Developing the e-Business Design: Challenges of e-Business strategy creation, Roadmap to moving your company into e-Business.

Translating e-Business Strategy into Action: The overall process ? translating strategy into action, e-Business blueprint creation, Basic steps of e-Business blueprint planning, Key elements of a business case, e-Business project planning checklist, Why e-Business initiatives fail?