A complete introduction to the tools and techniques real businesses
need to improve real systems.
The new edition of this best-selling guide offers you a solid introduction
to the concepts, tools, and techniques required for systems analysis
in the real-word workplace. Extensively updated, the book now addresses
the changes created by distributed computing, client/server systems,
reengineering, and other trends affecting systems analysis today.
Written in a nontechnical, jargon free style, this practical reference
tool will take you through project life cycle, project planning,
the data dictionary, data analysis, controls and auditing, security
analysis, and much more.
The Second Edition features:
Detailed coverage of all major system types and the appropriate
analysis methods;
Entirely new chapters on the analysis phase of the life cycle,
the effects of prior automation, and examining the results of
the data gathering phase;
Discussions of the impact of JAD, what-if games, rightsizing,
distributed databasing, reuse models, operating system software,
E-mail, GUIs, expert systems, LANs and WANs on the analysis process.
The revised edition of this essential sourcebook also contains a
wealth of new illustrations, examples, and case studies that reflect
the latest business environments.
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