Modern Systems Analysis and Design (4th Edition) (World Student)

Description

Features

Features

• NEW – Re–emphasized focus—Concentrates on “buy–and–integrate” rather than “make.”

  • Gives students a modern approach to systems analysis and design, presenting the field as a science rather than an art.

• NEW – New presentation of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)—Gives a 5–stage SDLC that is a true cycle and not a waterfall.

  • Provides students with the basic overall structure of the systems development process.

• NEW – Reorganized—Includes 16 chapters and 3 helpful appendices.

  • Enables students to use a text that is clearer and more comprehensive.

• NEW – Added coverage—Includes coverage of use cases in several chapters.

  • Encourages students‘ success by providing more real–world applications.

• A study of business use on the Web.

  • Shows students that the overwhelming majority of business use for the Web is business–to–business applications.

• A concentration on the human aspects of business—Advises that many of the key aspects of business—offering a product or service for sale, collecting payment, paying employees, maintaining customer and client relationships—have not changed since the Internet age.

  • Allows students to understand business and the way it functions is still the key to successful systems development, even in the fast–paced, technology–driven environment of organizations today.

• Advice about careers in Information Technology (IT)—Includes a complete appendix called “Succeeding as a Systems Analyst.”

  • Allows students to realize that analyzing and designing information systems gives them the chance to understand organizations at a depth and breadth that might take many more years to accomplish in other careers.

• A study of methodologies, techniques, and tools.

  • Shows students the three elements that work together to form an organizational approach to systems analysis and design.

• Illustrative Fictional Cases .

  • The Fourth Edition continues to illustrate and apply text concepts and tools through the use of the Pine Valley Furniture (PVF), Hoosier Burger (HB), and Broadway Entertainment Company, Inc. (BEC) cases. PVF is introduced in Chapter 3 and revisited throughout the book. HB is introduced in Chapter 6 and revisited throughout the book. BEC is introduced in Chapter 3 and is found at the end of each chapter thereafter. Margin icons identify the location of the case segments.

• Comprehensive supplements package.

  • Provides students and instructors with the course support needed for successful learning and teaching.

New to this Edition

New To This Edition

• Re–emphasized focus—Concentrates on “buy–and–integrate” rather than “make.”

  • Gives students a modern approach to systems analysis and design, presenting the field as a science rather than an art.

• New presentation of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)—Gives a 5–stage SDLC that is a true cycle and not a waterfall.

  • Provides students with the basic overall structure of the systems development process.

• Reorganized—Includes 16 chapters and 3 helpful appendices.

  • Enables students to use a text that is clearer and more comprehensive.

• Added coverage—Includes coverage of use cases in several chapters.

  • Encourages students‘ success by providing more real–world applications.

From the back cover:

NEW OR EXPANDED CONTENT COVERAGE TO KEEP YOU ON THE LEADING EDGE

• Increased focus on "make versus buy" and systems integration. More and more systems development involves the use of packages in combination with legacy applications and new modules. Chapter 11 shows how companies deal with these issues.
• Coverage of Internet–based systems. The authors have redesigned the distributed systems design chapter (now Chapter 16) to also address Internet–based application design topics not covered in the other chapters: They cover Internet application design standards, how to maintain site consistency, security issues, and data warehousing, among other topics.
• Expanded coverage of process modeling techniques.Chapter 8 now includes an introduction to business process modeling and functional hierarchy modeling as alternatives to data flow diagramming. These three process–modeling techniques are compared so you know when to use each in practice.
• Unlike other SAD texts,Modern Systems Analysis and Design has continually offered strong coverage of RAD — an important element in systems design.

FEATURES THAT MAKE THIS EDITION AN INDISPENSABLE RESOURCE:

Expanded and updated coverage of systems analysis as a profession
Updated coverage of codes of conduct and new material on how systems professionals approach business problems with ethical considerations. Updated information on career paths with the latest information gathered from professional societies.

Net Search Exercises
New margin icons for Net Search exercises on the Web site can be found in every chapter. The icon signals when a topic in the text has a corresponding Net Search exercise on the Web site.Broadway Entertainment Company, Inc., BEC, a fictional video and record retailer, is a project case that allows you to study and develop a Web–based customer relationship management system.

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