RESOURCES
The WI laboratory (business informatics laboratory) combines several laboratories in one:
- Database laboratory
- Middleware laboratory
- Project laboratory
Students are offered a multi-functional environment in the form of high-performance client computers and multiple servers for specialised tasks. Through various inter-university cooperations such as the Oracle Academic Initiative, the Celonis Academic Alliance and the Bizagi Academic Alliance, the IBM Scholars Programme or the SAP University Alliances Programme, up-to-date and forward-looking training is provided in the WI-Laboratory.
MULTI-FUNCTIONAL CLIENT COMPUTER
- Use in teaching, research and projects
- Development environments for database-based and other applications
- Heterogeneous distributed middleware environment
- Access to business applications (such as SAP S/4 Hana)
- Process modelling tools and data analysis software
HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTED MIDDLEWARE ENVIRONMENT
- Web servers, application servers, workflow systems
- Database-based tools (schema design, tuning,...)
- Database extenders for non-standard data (images, texts, XML, time series, ...)
HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTED DATABASE ENVIRONMENT
- Several commercial database management systems (DBMS)
- Use and evaluation of different techniques for data integration
- Hadoop cluster with 20 nodes
- Virtualisation environment for the provision of VMs for teaching, research and student projects
Software available in the WILab
Students have access to state-of-the-art software on the lab computers to work on the topics:
Database systems
- Oracle Database
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
Business Intelligence
- Celonis Process Mining
- Power BI
- Tableau
- QlikView
Process Modelling
- Bizagi Modeler
- ARIS Express
- Camunda Modeler
Enterprise systems
- SAP S/4 HANA
- SAP Business One
- Microsoft Dynamics
Development environments
- Visual Studio Code
- Eclipse
- IntelliJ IDEA
- Oracle SQL Developer
Middleware & Integration
- Apache Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- WSO2 Integration
- Oracle Middleware
