Implementation and analysis of open source information systems in Electronic business course for economy students

Electronic business course at Zagreb School of Economics and Managements (higher education economy faculty) is highly practical course with aim to educate students how to use variety of open source information systems for online business purposes. As final project students have to use open source content management system and implement their own business idea using principles taught in theoretical and practical part of the class. Limited versions of various content management systems are offered online but they are not sufficient to fully feature various important business activities. This paper presents testing, analysis and implementation of hosting environment, applications and class activities for course purposes in own educational private cloud environment.