Business Information Systems: Analysis, Design and Practice - Couverture souple

Curtis, Graham

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0201624494 ISBN 13 : 9780201624496

Editeur : Addison Wesley, 1995

Synopsis

This text covers the information requirements and management perspectives required in a business environment. Fully updated to include all recent developments in the area of information systems, this book: places more emphasis upon managerial issues, in particular the strategic and competitive benefits of information technology; includes enhanced sections on networks and communications, both in disucssion of technology and of organizational impact; has extended coverage of decision support systems, and includes executive information systems and other new tools in this area; and includes three new chapters on strategy and information systems, distributed systems networks and the organization, and decision-support and end-user computing. This work is intended for systems and data processing managers and business and computer students.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

"Well written and stimulating reading." �?? Thomas W. De Boer, University of Groningen

Business Information Systems 5th edition offers today�??s BIS students a comprehensive understanding of how information systems can aid the realisation of business objectives.

With equal and clear coverage of the more technical systems aspects of BIS and the softer, more managerial topics, this book is equally useful to BIS students from Business or Computing backgrounds and for students at an Undergraduate or MBA level.

Equipped with a wide variety of long, short and extended case studies from across the UK and Europe as well as examples, review questions and exercises throughout the text, students can easily check their understanding and see how their new-found knowledge applies to real-life business situations.

The fifth edition includes:

• Today�??s hot topics, such as data warehousing and data mining, knowledge management, ethical issues and responsibility, RAD and extreme programming.
• A thorough update of coverage of distributed systems, the internet and web support, ERP, UML, and networks and the organisation.
• Updated references and Case Studies throughout
• New companion website material including a password protected Instructor�??s Manual with worked solutions and PowerPoint slides, and free multiple choice questions, web-links and tips for students at www.booksites.net/curtis.

�??Provides extensive and comprehensive coverage of core IS topics, including development and design�?? �?? Dr Ray Hackney, Manchester Metropolitan University

Graham Curtis combines lecturing and developing courses in information systems analysis and design, database and accounting information systems, with research and consultancy and publications in business information systems. He is Head of Modular Programmes at the University of East London.

David Cobham is an active lecturer, researcher and consultant in Business Information Systems. His current interests are in information systems development methodologies, e-commerce systems development, decision support systems and project management. He is a Senior Academic in the Faculty of Applied Computer Sciences at the University of Lincoln.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

For 2nd and 3rd year intermediate or advanced BIS module; MBA; postgraduate conversion course in IS; 1st/2nd year courses with more analytical focus; Computing Science course in BIS; HND Computing or Business Information Systems. This comprehensive and highly successful text, now revised and updated in its fourth edition, covers all aspects of BIS, from the nature of information to recent developments in IT and the Internet. In a readable but academic and rigorously analytical manner, each chapter explains the expected learning outcomes, introduces a topic as academic theory, illustrates it with real life and artificial examples, and ends with a summary and review questions. Students going into business will be given a sufficiently comprehensive understanding to be able to assess the opportunities, limitations and major issues surrounding modern business information systems.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Addison Wesley
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0201624494
• ISBN 13: 9780201624496
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 624
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible