Business Information Systems
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788776814632
Table of contents: title: Content; title: 1. Defining Information Systems; title: 1.1. Defining Data and Information; title: 1.2. Defining Systems; title: 1.3. Defining Information Systems; title: 1.4. Business Information Systems; title: 1.5. Types of business information system; title: 2. Hardware; title: 2.1. Input devices; title: 2.2. Central Processing Unit (CPU); title: 2.3. Internal and External Memory; title: 2.4. Output devices; title: 2.5. Major categories of computers; title: 3. Software; title: 3.1. Systems software; title: 3.2. Application software; title: 4. Database Systems; title: 4.1. Organising data in a database; title: 4.2. Database Software; title: 4.3. Retrieving Data from a Database; title: 5. Networks; title: 5.1. Network components; title: 6. The Internet and World-Wide Web; title: 6.1. Web-Enabled Business; title: 6.2. Intranets and extranets; title: 6.3. The World Wide Web; title: 6.4. Web browsers and servers; title: 6.5. E-business; title: 6.6. E-commerce; title: 7. Acquiring Information Systems; title: 7.1. Bespoke development; title: 7.2. Off-the-shelf software; title: 7.3. End-user-developed software; title: 7.4. Factors affecting software acquisition; title: 8. Developing Information Systems; title: 8.1. The traditional waterfall model; title: 8.2. The systems development lifecycle; title: 9. Systems Development Methodologies; title: 9.1. SSADM; title: 9.2. Rapid applications development (RAD); title: 9.3. The Capability Maturity Model; title: 10. Information Systems Security; title: 10.1. Security Threats to Information Systems; title: 10.2. Reducing the Threat to Information Systems; title: 10.3. Types of controls; title: 10.4. Techniques for controlling information systems; title: 10.5. Security Threats to Internet services