A Professional's Guide to Systems Analysis |
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| Martin E. Modell |
| July 1996, McGraw Hill Text, Hardcover, ISBN 0070429480
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| This book is intended as a reference work for beginning systems
analyst. It provides an overview of the topics, and concepts and a
survey of the tools and techniques that an analyst should be familiar
with. The treatment of any given topic is by necessity rather shallow,
but hopefully the coverage is broad enough so that the reader will
gain an understanding of and an appreciation of the activities involved
in systems analysis |
Illustrations
Tables
Foreword
Preface
Preface to the First Edition
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Pt. 1. Tools and Techniques
1. What Is Systems Analysis?
2. The Various Types of Information Systems Analysis Projects
3. The Systems Life Cycle Methodology
4. System Development Life Cycle Analysis
5. Effects of Prior Automation: Legacy Systems
6. Project Planning
7. The Interview and Other Data Gathering Methods
8. The Data Dictionary
9. The Entity-Relationship Approach
10. Modeling and Diagramming Techniques
Pt. 2. Analysis
11. Business Knowledge
12. Functional Analysis
13. Process Analysis
14. Activity or Task Analysis
15. Data Analysis
Pt. 3. Validation
16. Validating the Analytical Results
17. Examination and Study
Pt. 4. Analysis Issues
18. Manual and Automated Systems Examination
19. Database Environment Considerations
20. Client/Server Considerations
21. Controls, Auditing, and Security Analysis
Pt. 5. Applications
22. Basic Types of Systems Projects
23. Case Study
Illustrations
Index
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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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Booknews, Inc. , November 1, 1996
A new edition of the popular guide presenting the concepts, tools,
and techniques required for systems analysis in the workplace. The
populist reference walks the reader through a project's life cycle,
including planning, data dictionary, analysis, controls and auditing,
and security analysis. The systems' applications are demonstrated
with a variety of case studies based on industrial, financial, and
publishing contexts. This edition also features new discussions of
JAD, rightsizing, distributed databasing, reuse models, E-mail, expert
systems, LANs, and WANs. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland,
Or. |
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