Information Systems is an independent interdisciplinary subject area, which has its roots in computer science and economics, in particular business administration. Studying Information Systems opens up a wide range of applications for graduates at the interface of business administration and computer science, especially in the planning, development and introduction as well as operation of information systems.

In this context, business IT specialists perform a translation function between the business world of thought and language on the one hand and a technically anchored system environment on the other. In particular, business computer scientists find fields of activity in the field of the use of information technology which require knowledge of the respective subject areas, in particular business management knowledge. They can therefore be used in a wide range of company areas and industries. Business information technologists can perform corresponding coordinating functions between IT specialists and technical specialists on the application side, whereby consulting services and project management are in the foreground. Due to the high innovation dynamics of IT as well as its inherent innovation potential, business IT specialists are also equipped for entrepreneurial activities (entrepreneurship). Abilities like the organisation of specific application systems, business process organisation, technical system draft, requirement analysis, organisational implementation, change management, the spreading architectural organisation of the information system landscape as well as the organisation and co-ordination of an internal as well as intercompany information management are obtained.

The range of methods includes in particular methods of modelling data, processes, as well as general internal and external structures and corresponding application systems, and depending on the choice of study depth also methods of data analysis (business intelligence, data science) or product and business model innovation. Master's graduates have built up these skills in depth during their studies and thus aim at higher and more advanced career paths in business and administration. By means of a targeted specialisation, either in an informational or business context, the respective specialist focus is set. Typical topics include, for example, the organisation of the IT function in a company or system analysis and development as well as IT architecture. Central for business informaticians is the application-oriented implementation of mostly formal, quantitative and system analytical methods in addition to the ability to explain phenomena, behaviours of actors as well as interrelationships of the use of IT in organisations (explanation goal of business informatics). Due to the increasing importance of digitized data, there is an increasing demand for graduates who are familiar with the acquisition, storage, search, distribution, modelling, analysis and visualization of large amounts of data (Business Intelligence, Data Science). Here a broad, predominantly informatically founded method spectrum is to be mastered. In particular, it requires the ability to conceive corresponding systems and to guide their development with technical understanding (design goal of business informatics). The spectrum of effects of the graduates ranges from the design of innovative products or processes to business models.