BUSINESS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

'Business Information Technology' ('BIT'), is a discipline that combines the activities of business and technology with the goal of combining business and information technology (IT) to facilitate and exploit the use of information technology to foster and support business activities within the enterprise and externally to its clients.
The phenomena of fusing the two major disciplines of business and information technology into single profession, as well as formally becoming an academic specialty, is relatively new, proliferating in schools and businesses at the latter part of the 20th century. Business information technology has been recognized and popularized with the advances in computing and the rapid growth e-commerce.
Some assert that relationship of business and information technology has its roots much further in history where innovation and technology (such as information dissemination in the form of advertising and other types of promotion) spawned and stimulated commercial activity and vice versa, thus inextricably linked.
BIT is offered as an area of study and training both at the university level as well as vocational level. Many universities and technical colleges throughout the world offer advanced degrees, undergraduate degrees, diplomas and certifications in field of business information technology. All the curriculum and training is centered on developing the individual's business and technical skills in parallel. There are other sub-disciplines that have branched off from the umbrella of business information technology discipline. This disciplines include: accounting management systems, accounting information systems (ACS), database management systems, knowledge management, and business systems.

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★ Department of Business Information Technology, Virginia Tech, USA

★ Business Information Technology BSc, University of Westminster, UK