The development of Information Technology (IT) has been mainly discussed nowadays, from the top to the lowest level of society. The application of IT help companies to solve problems and even more, the application of IT has been able to provide business strategic decisions support. Many enterprises decided to allocate large budget on IT implementation where this is in line with increasingly sophisticated expectations from IT. With the assumption that the larger budget on enterprises spent on IT application, the greater the benefits they will receive. Unfortunately, IT implementation does not always give an advantage to the company. There are times when the IT implementation does not give any benefit. This situation is called IT Productivity Paradox. The question is then how IT Productivity Paradox can be prevented.

Student grouping, particularly in high school, is a necessary process to divide and classify students into classes based on their abilities and interests. Each school may have different approaches to decide the grouping, but most schools use academic grades. The activity occurs every new academic year and schools with plenty of new students registered may feel a bit overwhelmed with this grouping assignment. A decision support system which can automatically perform grouping on a list of students may be able to help the school’s staffs with this repetitive task. A self-organizing map (SOM) is an example of unsupervised learning algorithm using an artificial neural network structure to produce a low dimensional representation from a given input. However, SOM is also known as one of clustering techniques, since dimensionality reduction may also be seen as reducing (or clustering) input data to lower dimensions (or clusters). This research aims to group new enrolled students to a high school based on their academic grades using a SOM learning algorithm. The grades came from their rapport books and national examination results from their previous study. The resulting groups are three distinct clusters which represents Life Sciences, Social Sciences, and Linguistics study areas.

Sugar is one of the strategic commodities owned by Indonesia as a tropical country, sugar has been produced in 110 countries, such as Brazil, India, Australia, Thailand, China, and Cuba

Entrepreneurship Course is a compulsory subject that must be accepted by all students of University of Pembangunan Nasional “Veteran” Jawa Timur. This is done with the goal that students have the spirit of entrepreneurship. For this reason, in order for entrepreneurship to continue until students graduate, a Student Entrepreneurship Information System is created or it is called Sistem Informasi Kewirausahaan Mahasiswa (Sirama) in Indonesia. In the following article we will discuss about the proposed system design as a place for entrepreneurship for students and alumni. The analysis design that will be discussed is System Flow, Data Flow Diagrams (DFD), and Conceptual Data Model (CDM) and Physical Data Model (PDM) which are generated from CDM. The conclusion of this article is the system design for developing programs using web applications.

Laboratory management must be taken seriously and regularly, such as recording items in and out, students who enter to do scheduled lab work or free practicum and lecturer activities in conducting research can be recorded in a system. For this reason, an information system is needed to handle the recording of every visitor entering the laboratory. In this paper, the scope to be discussed was the analysis and design of a laboratory Logbook.