The educational process in higher education is aimed at developing a certain set of competencies and initial experience of professional activity in the student. This experience can be acquired by case-based learning, which is focused on the analysis and solution of problems that are typical for a certain professional activity. Solving case-based tasks using the tools of the 1C:Enterprise platform will allow adapting the future IT specialist to professional activities related to the development of domain-specific information systems using popular software products.The article demonstrates the didactic possibilities of case-based learning for future IT specialists using the 1C:Enterprise platform tools. The article presents examples of case-based tasks, the solution of which involves the development of an applied information system for a given subject area using the 1C:Enterprise platform tools. General requirements for the result of information system development are proposed. It is shown that the solution of case-based tasks in given formulations requires the student to perform a comprehensive analysis of the development conditions and requirements for the final product, diagnosing and timely correction of errors at all stages of the solution process. It is concluded that it is expedient to include case-based learning in the training of a future IT specialist as a way of immersion in future professional activity