Does the idea of keeping the wheels of commerce turning float your boat? Modern organisations of all sizes run on information, and they need people who know how to capture, store, retrieve and analyse it - and keep it safe from hackers. Sales and marketing, customer relationship management, finance, HR - all need and generate huge amounts of data and it all needs to be analysed and presented in a way that allows management to make decisions that will keep the company afloat and growing. A Business Information Systems degree is your passport to an absorbing, well-paid career in some of the world's biggest, most exciting companies.About the Foundation Year The Foundation Year course option enables you to study for our BSc (Hons) degree over an extended full-time duration of four years by including a Foundation Certificate (year one of four). The Foundation Certificate provides a broad study programme that underpins the follow-on degree. In order to progress to the next year of your degree, it is necessary to achieve a pass in all of the modules of the Foundation Certificate.