i’m doing a degree in business information systems and i have to select a professional track but i’m not sure which will be beneficial in terms of industry demand.

My uni offers:
BUSINESS APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONAL TRACK
-Advanced programming for database applications*
-e-Business application and development*
-Object-oriented business application development*
-User interface design and development*

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PROFESSIONAL TRACK
-Business intelligence applications
-IT for management decision making
-Data warehousing
-Business intelligence modelling

BUSINESS SYSTEMS PROFESSIONAL TRACK
-Services science
-Customer relationship management and data mining
-IT for financial decisions
-Business process modelling, design and simulation

CORPORATE INFORMATION & KNOWLEDGE INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL TRACK
-Information and knowledge management principles*
-Information and knowledge management systems*
-IT strategy and governance*
-Project management as knowledge-based practice*

ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS PROFESSIONAL TRACK
-Electronic business
-Enterprise systems
-Information systems development practices
-Project management*

LIBRARY, ARCHIVAL AND RECORD KEEPING SYSTEMS PROFESSIONAL TRACK
-Social informatics*
-Professional practice*,**

i wanna know which professional track will provide higher chance of employment. i am indecisive at the moment.

ALSO, any advice in terms of what IT certifications or programming language i should start off with that will be useful.

Thanks for your advise. much appreciated.
I’m not looking for a job at the moment, i just need advice on which professional track is advisable. please don’t give me advice on looking for a job. thanks

If you are after the stability + high salary, go with:

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PROFESSIONAL TRACK

The companies/employers all they care is their DATA!
Once data is lost, the business is gone. So Data where
the money is…

In BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PROFESSIONAL TRACK, you will
be dealing with data.

However, choose the one you enjoy the most. You can’t buy enjoyment…You will only
do great if you do what you love…

The other fields got high salary too. Eventually, this vary with who and where are you working…

Knowledge and information

If you have any knowledge and information constructs within and as you, the more knowledge and information you have within and as you, the more specific self forgiveness is required to release knowledge and information constructs of the mind within and as you
What do I mean by knowledge and information?
for instance any perception that exists within the mind, for instance of the dimensions, of the interdimensional existence, of dimensional beings that would cause you to have an opinion about something. If you have an opinion or an idea formulated within your mind based on a picture of a perception, then you know that which you have an opinion about, that which you have a picture about in your mind, that which you have a perception or idea of within your mind, that particular specific point is in knowledge and information construct. Knowledge and Information is also for instance, when you’ve read something about something, when you’ve read something about a specific point and in reading it you’ve now obtained that information within and as you, it has not been the words, has not been an actual manifested living example of and as yourself, that is knowledge and information, for example: breathing, breath: this is an actual manifested experience of you that you are directing as yourself. Alright.
Self Honesty: that is an application of you as a manifested experience of yourself that which you are directing. Practical application, self practical application: an experience in expression of and as self that self is directing, and actually experiencing. Writing: you expressing you, you directing yourself as a manifested experience of and as you, therefore within Self Honesty. Self Forgiveness: breathing self corrective application, writing, you are directing you, you are assisting and supporting you, therefore, assisting and supporting you with these tools as you one and equal is not knowledge and information, info it is an actual experience of and as yourself, anything else is knowledge and information, it is not yet you, as who you are. Therefore the vocabulary purifier will assist and support you extensively in living words as yourself, meaning to clear all words within and as you of the mind so that words when read in sentences is not just knowledge and information that is obtained by you or absorbed through the mind. It’s when you read you realize that the words you read is you: the words are in me as me, one and equal. So therefore I would suggest also to assist and support you on the vocabulary purifier, self forgiveness on any knowledge and information just obtained or absorbed within you through and of the mind that you have an opinion about, that you have and idea about, that you have a perception about, that you have defined as pictures within our mind, etc. and release the entire knowledge and information construct system within and as you entirely.
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Thanks to the Yahoo Linux Community, i took my first step and installed Linux Mint Helina into my system. I play around with it a little and really like it but I do not have any knowledge on how to install any drivers.

I tried to install pcwizard so that i could see my system information but unfortunately the software is not compatible with Linux. I not sure what i need to do, its totally a new environment for me.

A couple of things you need to know about Linux and *nix environments.

First, Linux is not Windows, so nothing that runs on Windows runs on Linux. There are exceptions. Some popular Windows apps have Linux versions (Firefox, Thunderbird for mail, Adobe Acrobat Reader). There’s also a tool called Wine that allow you to run Windows programs from inside Linux. But stick with just Linux for now.

One doesn’t install drivers for Linux the way you do in Windows. Most hardware is automatically detected and configured in the installation process. Anything exotic might need to have a module or library installed, but you can nearly always do that through the software manager. Check at the Mint or Ubuntu forms for any assistance on this.

Also. look on the system menus. There are lots of tools that will provide all the information you need about your system.

Also, from the console, there is no one tool that tells you everything. Linux and similar systems include a wide variety fo smaller tools and programs, each of which handles a specific task. For example:

ps -ef (this will give you a list of all the currently running processes).

lspci (gives a list of all the hardware on various system interfaces)

mount (gives you a list of all currently mounted drives and storage devices.

When a list of things goes beyond a screen page, you can "page’ the output by piping it through a pager tool like "less":

ps -ef | less

This presents the information a page at a time, and you press the space bar to read the next page.

WHMIS stands for Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System.

WHMIS was created to reduce injuries, illness and deaths associated with working with hazardous materials in the workplace. These hazardous materials that come under the umbrella of WHMIS are also referred to as controlled products.

Any controlled product that is used must be appropriately labelled, must have a corresponding Material Safety Data Sheet, or MSDS, and must be used only by people who have been properly trained.

The program covers the following areas:
* Classes of Controlled Products
* Hazard Symbols
* Labelling
* Material Safety Data sheets
* How Hazardous Materials can hurt us

WHMIS supplies us with access to knowledge about controlled products that we use. Combining this knowledge with established safe work procedures is the best way we can avoid accidents, injuries and illness associated with the use of hazardous materials.

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Two Age of Knowledge with Elite as First Wave
Now that we are inmoving from the Information Age into the Age of Knowledge, you’ll also find a fascinating-thing: Everybody knows everything and believe that what they know is The Answer.
There is nowvirtually every-second person of the First-Wave believe themselves to be the Reincarnation of Jesus Christ or some Holy-Being that knows all-the-answers and that’s here to save-Humanity.
Who is ‘the First-Wave?’ The Elite in the World. The Elite in the world are those who has access to be able-to manipulate Consciousness – that is the Elite in this world. And many, many of them are now ‘Spiritual-Gurus’.
These ‘Gurus’ are teaching many-things and is creating their own-little-empires to keep-them-going and to have a very-good life and to have those that follow them have a special life;
All-the-while there are millions-upon-millions Half the Planet: Suffering, in-Poverty, in No-practical-way able to ever support-them in this life and in this lifetime and No-solution in-view. There is No-solution in-view for the world at-all, at this stage.
This will be Realized in time-to-come. There is No-solution. A Solution will have to be Actually Created. We have suggested a Solution for this, being: Equal-Money and Equal-Labor-System. These things has been tested on the Planet and they Do work.

Obviously, it is an interim-Solution. Ultimately, man in its True-Form will Not-eat – but at-the-moment we do. Let’s not be delusional and not consider what is currently Here. Currently Here: a more advanced-Man is Not-even-possible.
We first have to just get-rid-of the Fear of Survival. Fear of Survival are deliberately implanted by those that want to keep their own-reality in-a-way where they are in-control, and their happiness has got their world working effectively.
They are Not-considering those that are also part-of the One that should be Supported.

Everything that is Here if you study Holographics understand: that Every-part is Part-of-a-Whole but is also Equal to the Whole. We are thus in a peculiar-position: That none at on the Planet is ‘more than the lowest-point of those that are Here.
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Some information regarding how important knowledge is.

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Dave starts off by explaining why he’s not fond of the data-information-knowledge-wisdom approach (built on a systems thinking premise) of defining knowledge management. Dave believes that the function of knowledge management is to create a shared knowledge context; he uses an elegant metaphor (using a map versus a taxi to navigate around a new city) to explain the difference between data, information and knowledge.

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Instead of taking something away like PBS, NPC, and placing restrictions on knowledge, information and self-expression; what should be done to encourage people to become even more ignorant?

First; Public and Private schools are to be both educational and act as instruments to steer the right people and break them up into groups. It becomes of a filtration system than anything else.

Next would be entertainment for the masses. Limiting freedoms of expression. Make college courses more exclusive for those that have talent.

I want to make people resentful, bitter and angry. That is how we must live.

Maybe you should move to North Korea or Cuba, the land of the 50s automobiles where everyone is ignorant about new cars and technology. Join your komrades.

It’s something with computers its a class I’m looking into. Its free online and its credit hours too (army) thats how its free. If you do know what it is without any previous knowledge is this going to be hard. Like do I need to know prior things before taking this?

Security Management and Operations Security Practices

Access Control and Physical Security

Cryptography and Network Security

Security Architecture and Applications Security

Business Continuity Planning, Law, and Ethics

TestPrep Final Exam: Information System Security

Those are the "subclasses" within the class I guess you could say.
It says the "target audience" is:
Network administrators, network managers, information system managers, system administrators, application developers, IT security officers

CISSP = Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

You can find out all about it at http://www.isc2.org

Some information regarding how important knowledge is.

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