Introduction to information systems : supporting and transforming business /
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Hoboken, NJ :
Wiley,
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Table of Contents:
- Information systems : concepts and management
- 1.1 Information systems : concepts and definitions
- 1.2 Types of information systems
- 1.3 Examples of information systems
- 1.4 Managing information resources
- 1.5 The plan of this book
- The modern organization in the digital economy
- 2.1 Doing business in the digital economy
- 2.2 Business pressures, organizational responses, and IT support
- 2.3 Competitive advantage and strategic information systems
- 2.4 Why should you learn about information technology?
- Ethics, privacy, and information security
- 3.1 Ethical issues
- 3.2 Threats to information security
- 3.3 Protecting information resources
- Data and knowledge management
- 4.1 Managing data
- 4.2 The database approach
- 4.3 Database management systems
- 4.4 Data warehousing
- 4.5 Data visualization technologies
- 4.6 Knowledge management
- Network computing
- 5.1 Types of networks
- 5.2 The internet
- 5.3 The World Wide Web
- 5.4 Network applications
- 5.5 E-learning and distance learning
- 5.6 Telecommuting
- E-business and e-commerce
- 6.1 Overview of e-business and e-commerce
- 6.2 Business-to-consumer (B2C) electronic commerce
- 6.3 Business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce
- 6.4 Electronic payments
- 6.5 Ethical and legal issues in e-business
- Wireless, mobile computing, and mobile commerce
- 7.1 Wireless technologies
- 7.2 Wireless computer networks and internet access
- 7.3 Mobile computing and mobile commerce
- 7.4 Pervasive computing
- 7.5 Wireless security
- Organizational information systems
- 8.1 Transaction processing systems
- 8.2 Functional information systems
- 8.3 Enterprise resource planning systems
- 8.4 Customer relationship management
- 8.5 Supply chain management systems
- 8.6 Electronic data interchange and extranets
- Managerial support systems
- 9.1 Managers and decision making
- 9.2 Decision support systems
- 9.3 Enterprise and executive decision support systems
- 9.4 Intelligent systems
- Acquiring IT applications
- 10.1 Planning for and justifying IT applications
- 10.2 Strategies for acquiring IT applications
- 10.3 The traditional systems development life cycle
- 10.4 Alternative methods and tools for systems development
- 10.5 Outsourcing and application service providers
- 10.6 Vendor and software selection
- Technology guide 1 Computer hardware
- Tg1.1 Introduction
- Tg1.2 The central processing unit
- Tg1.3 Computer memory
- Tg1.4 Computer hierarchy
- Tg1.5 Input and output technologies
- Tg1.6 General technological trends
- Tg1.7 Strategic hardware issues
- Technology guide 2 Introduction
- Tg 2.1 Significance of software
- Tg 2.2 Systems software
- Tg 2.3 Application software
- Tg 2.4 Software issues
- Tg 2.5 Programming languages.