Business Informatics?

10:54 Feb 13, 2020 

" ...a relatively new field" ?

That kind of studies existed in France already in the seventies (about a half century ago!)

Half century might be no more than a blip on some timescales, but on our human timescale I would think that it would count as a bit older than "relatively new".

15:40 Feb 12, 2020 

I agree with Katalin for all the reasons she mentioned. This is a relatively new field and not yet widely available. Business Informatics seems a perfectly reasonable term for it and, together with the German term in parentheses, should be understandable to any academic audience, even if it is known under different names or not known at all.

22:23 Feb 11, 2020 

You are translating a CV of a person, who got a degree at a non-English university, and the university itself refers to that degree as "Business Informatics". If that is the case, I would suggest that you use that (perhaps with the original German degree name in parenthesis after it), for two reasons: 1. If the person would be required to provide an official transcript from the university, that's what is going to be on that, and if they don't match, that could be a problem for the guy. 2. For employment and visa purposes a simple translation of a diploma/transcript is usually not enough, the employer will go through an "equivalency verification". This is precisely because the name of the degree does not necessarily carries the same meaning in the two countries, and there are many degree/specialization names that don't exist in the other country. There are services specializing in that, and they go through the entire transcript, the curriculum, etc. and compare it with the education in the target country, and identify the closest local equivalent. The employer/visa sponsor/government authority will make their decision based on that.

18:16 Feb 11, 2020 

... (compiled from your reference document) pretty much falls flat.

18:08 Feb 11, 2020 

=> "The study led to the development and accreditation of a business informatics study programme at Dublin City University." "The engineering emphasis throughout the programme is seen as one important characteristic. This differentiates the proposed programme from other management oriented information systems degrees. Therefore the business informatics approach appears to us to be innovative with regard to its interdisciplinary character. " "The paper concludes that business informatics is not just a new term, but instead offers an engi-neering oriented stream on information systems. As such, business informatics can complement the traditional managerial oriented study programmes." I think the problem with "MSc Business Administration (IT)" is that Wirtschaftsinformatik (which our IT guy studied) is still very heavy Computer Science that also teaches you how to run a business on the side and is absolutely nothing to do with an MBA with a light IT specialisation wing to it so that the only promising competitor to Business Informatics, besides, possibly, "MSc in Advanced Computer Science with ICT Management" (a bit long, that one), I can see in your list ..

17:56 Feb 11, 2020 

You may find this an interesting read

Business Informatics: An Engineering Perspective on Information Systems - Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

Terminology
The term ‘business informatics’ (in German: ‘Wirtschaftsinformatik’) is widely accepted in business and academia in the German-speaking countries (nearly all degree programmes are labeled as ‘business informatics’). In the UK/Ireland the term information systems or information management is often used. Table 2 illustrates some further examples of masters level degree programmes and the terminology used in the UK/Ireland.
Table 2: Overview of Terminologies used for study programmes in the UK/Ireland
MSc Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems
MSc Business Administration (IT)
MSc in Advanced Computer Science with ICT Management
MSc in Information Management
MSc in Multidisciplinary Informatics
MSc Information and Knowledge Management
MSc Information Systems
MSc in Electronic Commerce (Technical and Business)
http://www.jite.org/documents/Vol7/JITEv7p223-245Helfert354....

16:34 Feb 11, 2020 

is Diplom-Informatiker (FH), which has been explained in the translation as being approx. equivalent to a BSc in Computer Science (University of Applied Sciences).