Informatics

What is Informatics

Informatics is an area that includes, in practice, all management methods and analytical techniques, whose subject is information, data or information and communication technologies management.

KGI (Key Goal Indicators)

e-Business

Knowledge Management

“Informatics is the intersection of people, information and technologies.”

David Penniman

Informatics is an area that includes, in practice, all management methods and analytical techniques, whose subject is information, data or information and communication technologies management, thus their day to day operations, development, implementation of new information technologies, data security and information, and software development. Partially it extends into knowledge management. Informatics in the enterprise cannot be separated from the overall organizational architecture and its needs - it must be measurable costs and benefits (utility) for the customer and for the functioning of the organization.

The position responsible for the service quality of informatics in a enterprise is the IT manager (CIO – Chief Information Officer).

Informatics includes following areas of activities, processes, methods:

Content management (data, information, knowledge)
Process management of operations and development of information system
Architecture management of information system
Software development management

Content Management

Content management – management of information, data and knowledge includes approaches such as:

Information management
- Organization‘s information strategy
- Information strategy by the Tofflers
Data and information protection and security
Data management
- Dublin Core (DC)
- Data maintenance and management
- Data cleaning methods
Knowledge management

Process management of ICT operation and development

Process management of operations and development of information systems and ICTs includes all methods and standards or frameworks, that focus on a means of operation or evaluation of the business information system.

CMMI-SW
COBIT
ITIL
ITSM
MMDIS

Architecture management of information system

Architecture management of information system includes all methods, approaches or standards that help to build internal logic of the information system as a whole, according to enterprise’s needs.

Approaches to architecture design of information system
- SOA - Service Oriented Architecture
- SCA - Service Component Architecture
MMDIS
SOA - Service Oriented Architecture
System integration
TOGAF
Zachman Framework (ZIFA)

Methods and methodologies of software development management

Methods and methodologies of software development management are as follows:

Basic methods of software development management:
- Code and Fix
- Fountain model
- Prototyping
- Spiral model
- Waterfall model
Classical methodologies of software development management:
- AllFusion Process Library
- Enterprise Unified Process (EUP)
- Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF)
- OPEN/OML
- Rational Unified Process (RUP)
- Unified Process (UP)
Agile methodologies of software development management:
- Adaptive Software Development (ASD)
- Agile Unified Process (AUP)
- Basic Unified Process (BUP)
- Crystal Clear
- Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM)
- Essential Unified Process (EssUP)
- eXtreme Programming, XP
- Feature-Driven Development (FDD)
- Lean Development
- Open Unified Process (OpenUP)
- SCRUM
- Select Perspective
Programming languages commonly used for enterprise application development are:
- Web applications
  - ASP.NET
  - Java
  - JavaScript
  - Perl
  - PHP
  - Python
  - Ruby
- Desktop applications
  - C#
  - C++
  - Java
  - Pascal
  - Visual Basic
- Business information systems
  - ABAP
  - Java
- Database work
  - PL/SQL
  - SAS
  - SQL
  - T-SQL
  - Visual FoxPro
- Business processes
  - BPEL (Business Process Execution Language)