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

Curtis, Graham; Cobham, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0273651307 ISBN 13 : 9780273651307

Editeur : Pearson Education Limited, 2001

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Business Information Systems – analysis, design and practice, sixth edition
by Graham Curtis and David Cobham

This book aims to equip those in, or entering, business to assess the opportunities, limitations and major issues surrounding modern business information systems and to appreciate the way that information systems can aid the realization of business objectives. Providing students with:

• Good technical coverage, accessible for both business students and computing students
• Interesting case studies showing real-world application of ideas and technologies, including a long case that runs through all the systems development chapters
• European context and examples
• Self-assessment questions, hints for the review questions in the book and worked database solutions online at www.pearsoned.co.uk/curtis

New to this edition:

• A completely new chapter introducing the object-oriented approach to information systems development using UML
• An increased focus on current topics such as project management techniques, globalization, e-business, security and trust
• A new chapter on Business Intelligence including coverage of decision support systems, document management systems, CRM, digital dashboards, OLAP, web services, data warehousing and data mining

PowerPoint slides for lecturers and an updated Instructor's Manual can be downloaded from www.pearsoned.co.uk/curtis

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

David Cobham is an active lecturer, researcher and consultant in Business Information Systems and is Head of Department of Computing and Informatics at the University of Lincoln. His current interests are in information systems development methodologies, e-commerce systems development, decision support systems and project management

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson Education Limited
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0273651307
• ISBN 13: 9780273651307
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 660
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italie