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For undergraduate and graduate course in structured systems analysis and design.

This text is a briefer version of the authors’ successful Modern System Analysis and Design, designed for courses seeking a streamlined approach to the material due to course duration, lab assignments, or special projects. It features the “systems development life cycle model” which is used as an organizing tool throughout the book.

Organized around the “systems development life cycle” at the chapter and the book level. This is the most widely accepted model used in systems development, and it gives to students a way of organizing the information:
•   Part I: Foundations for System Development—gives an overview of systems development and previews the remainder of the book
•   Part II: Systems Planning and Selection—covers how to assess project feasibility and build the baseline project plan.
•   Part III: Systems Analysis—covers determining system requirements, process modeling, and conceptual modeling.
•   Part IV: Systems Design—covers how to design the human interface and databases.
•   Part V: Systems Implementation and Operation—covers system implementation, operation, closedown, and system maintenance.

Three illustrative fictional cases show students how systems analysis and design is applied in business situations. Cases include a furniture store that implements a purchasing fulfillment system and a customer tracking system; a fast-food restaurant that illustrates how analysts would develop and implement an automated food ordering system; and an entertainment company that initiates, plans, models, designs, and implements a Web-based CRM system.

Internet coverage and features—students follow fictional cases and marginal icons to see how the Internet effects systems development. A furniture store decides to take its company online; an entertainment retailer develops a web-based CRM system. The Net Search marginal feature alerts students to a link where they can access material related to the topic within the chapter and complete an exercise.

End-of-chapter case problems refer back to two of the illustrative cases, as well as other cases from various fields, and give students an opportunity to apply the skills they are learning.

NEW! Notation for entity-relationship diagramming

NEW! Updated illustrations of technology

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NEW! Notation for entity-relationship diagramming

NEW! Updated illustrations of technology

Table of Contents

Part 1       Foundations for Systems Development
Chapter 1   The Systems Development Environment
Chapter 2   The Sources of Software
Chapter 3   Managing the Information Systems Project

Part 2       Systems Planning and Selection
Chapter 4   Systems Planning and Selection

Part 3       Systems Analysis
Chapter 5   Determining System Requirements
Chapter 6   Structuring System Requirements: Process Modeling
Chapter 7   Structuring System Requirements: Conceptual Data Modeling

Part 4       Systems Design
Chapter 8   Designing the Human Interface
Chapter 9   Designing Databases

Part 5       Systems Implementation and Operation
Chapter 10   Systems Implementation and Operation

Appendix A   Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
Appendix B   Agile Methodologies

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Glossary of Acronyms
Glossary of Terms
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For courses in systems analysis and design.

A clear presentation, organized around the systems development life cycle model.

Essentials of Systems Analysis and Design is a briefer version of the authors’ successful Modern System Analysis and Design, designed for courses seeking a streamlined approach to the material due to course duration, lab assignments, or special projects. This text also features the systems development life cycle model, which is used to organize the information throughout the text.

The fifth edition emphasizes current changes in systems analysis and design.

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